faculty development program

Chandigarh Design School Founder Vineet Raj Kapoor was the resource person at Maharaja Agrasen University, Baddi on January 15, 2025 to mentor and guide Faculty from across various technical colleges attending the 7 Day Faculty Development Program on E- Content Development and MOOCs happening at MAIT, Baddi from 14-20 January, 2025.

The FDP on " E- Content Development and MOOCs " was organised by the Maharaja Agrasen University, in association with the Electronics & ICT Academy, NIT Patna

Chandigarh Design School and SXILL Founder, Vineet Raj Kapoor delivered 2 FDP sessions on Engaging students in MOOCs and online learning environments and Slides and graphics design. Besides these 2 he also delivered an impromptu training and talk on Interactive Tools for online training.

The workshop was coordinated by Dr. Pradeep Walia, who mentioned, “The primary objective of this FDP is to equip faculty members with advanced skills in designing and developing high-quality e-content and understanding the nuances of creating Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The program will focus on fostering digital pedagogical tools and techniques for enhancing the teaching-learning experience.”

Vineet Raj Kapoor, India’s Expert on Industrial Design Technology for Worldskills apprised the Faculty on various aspects and tips and techniques of engaging the audience/ students during online sessions. In the later session he guided them on the right way of preparing Graphics and Slides for their MOOC presentations. He then also showed them the usage of interactive techniques using Mentimeter, AHASlides and other platforms.

Delivering the vote of thanks, Professor Walia acknowledged the deep insights provided by Vineet Raj Kapoor, Founder SXILL and Chandigarh Design School.

Vineet Raj Kapoor (Lead Expert IDT Worldskills, and Founder SXILL and Chandigarh Design School) shared “Guiding Faulty from MAIT and other colleges was a wonderful opportunityBeing a practitioner and trainer of UX Design and Design Thinking since 2014, I am aware of the huge gap between theory and practice that exists in India even in the top institutes.” He quipped, “Don’t worry all this would be part of my upcoming book – SOLVXD: Think in Steps – that would be coming out soon.

Neelu Kapoor (Indiaskills Graphic Design Technology Jury) and Founder SXILL mentioned, “This was the first time Chandigarh Design School tendered a FDP session at MAIT, and we are quite excited by the quality of the assignments by the talented faculty of MAIT. Before this we had tendered Faculty Development Program at Chitkara, Thapar University etc. which was also highly appreciated by the CSE Faculty who were part of the FDP.”