Teaching Pedagogy
We aim at providing students advice on everything academic, from tips for taking notes during lectures and researching effectively to referencing correctly and producing high-quality assignments. We believe in creating a culture of Innovation, which means that the academicians encourage the following:
- Rewarding innovation even if it is a failure.
- Training faculty in Design for innovative techniques.
- Encouraging cross departmental teams to identify, collaborate and solve problems.
- Understanding students.
- Having an open mind for listening, encouraging prototypes.
- Using data and observation.
It should result in teacher and students producing together, connecting schools to students’ lives, teaching complex thinking and teaching through conversation.
Innovation Principles and Training Pedagogy
Innovative Pedagogy as a practice and science has a responsibility of preparing citizens of the knowledge society to be creative, face changes, manage and analyse information, and work with knowledge. Worldwide teachers have to adapt their instructional practices and educational systems to be more effective. The role of teachers has changes from being a subject matter expert to a facilitator of student learning in the knowledge society. The university is determined to promote active research across different disciplines. It has launched higher research degree programs, and established collaborating links with well-known institutions in India and abroad for promoting action oriented research. The University has established State-of-the-art laboratories, innovation labs, Demo units, Incubation Cell and is acquiring requisite resources and manpower for the purpose. The education here is job oriented and students are exposed to several entrepreneurship /incubator options. In the twenty-first century, significant changes are occurring related to new scientific discoveries, informatization, globalization, the development of astronautics, robotics, and artificial intelligence. This century is called the age of digital technologies and knowledge. Hence continuous efforts for innovation and training pedagogy are needed.
Application Oriented Learning
Application-oriented learners view learning as acquiring knowledge that can be used by means of concretising and applying. People process learning input by relating theory and practical experiences. Action-oriented Learning (AOL) is a kind of approach that students lead by lecturers to learn in a team in order to achieve common goal in practical situations. It is one of the distinctive features, characterizing education. All courses are designed and delivered to relate theoretical concepts to real time situations so that the academics blend perfectly with the vocational. The system of academic delivery ensures that students get application oriented, industry, and need based practical education. This fills the basic gap between the current times’ theoretical education and the industry demands. Our labs provide conducive learning environments for students to work individually or collaboratively on entrepreneurial, STEM, STEAM, and Design Thinking projects. We provide programs and pedagogy that together with the new learning environments develop a culture of self-directed learners. It will be a serendipitous collision of thoughts, ideas with a learning environment for all students.
Value based Education
Value-based education aims at training the student to face the outer world with the right attitude and values. It is a process of overall personality development of a student. It includes character development, personality development, citizenship development, and spiritual development. Good education can bring about a radical change in the personality of a student with many benefits. The students become more responsible for their behaviour with teachers and fellow students. The students become regular with their home works and class works. They learn to cooperate with the teachers and fellow students in every situation. They learn to become attentive and handle every situation with maturity. They take their own decision without any hesitation. It develops a positive mind and a good attitude in them. Value education creates a strong relationship between student and teachers.
Complexities of today’s business demand team work and relatively higher order of interaction among people. Collaborative and Critical thinking skills are the single important common denominator that can help a student meet the challenges ahead. The following skillsets are made part of the curriculum:
- Rewarding innovation even if it is a failure.
- Training faculty in Design for innovative techniques.
- Encouraging cross departmental teams to identify, collaborate and solve problems.
- Understanding students.
- Having an open mind for listening, encouraging prototypes.
- Using data and observation.
It should result in teacher and students producing together, connecting schools to students’ lives, teaching complex thinking and teaching through conversation.
Skilling
University lays emphasis on life skills and professional skills at all levels so as to facilitate employability and entrepreneurship. All programs of Central and State Governments are realigned to optimize the benefits. In today’s knowledge economy, people expect change over the course of their careers. More than 90 percent of millennials plan to stay in their jobs less than three years. They’ll spiral between work and learning, sometimes blurring the lines between both. As they continue to build foundational knowledge throughout their lifetimes, they’ll add job-specific skills along the way, getting a certificate in data analytics one year and sprinkling in some coding classes the next.
Setting up Incubators
Incubators function as the entrepreneurs classrooms, we emphasize on academic incubators that help establish idea exchange on campus. Millennial university students have to be trained for more than academic degrees, they have to be trained to be an entrepreneur, ideate, launch businesses, develop new products and start social movements.
The educational system should create a favourable environment that enables young people to develop their mind-set from employees to employers, and to prepare them to improve skills and knowledge to create jobs. In Business Incubation the research outcomes are linked with the industry and development. This relationship between these entities will provide success to its stakeholders.
Many incubators are supported by universities. Others are making initiatives to link up with universities and higher education institutions to get the revenues and returns from its academic nature.
Applied Research
Applied research is designed to answer specific questions aimed at solving practical problems. New knowledge acquired from applied research has specific commercial objectives in the form of products, procedures or services. Fundamental research answers the initial question of how things work. This fundamental knowledge is then used by applied scientists and engineers.
- International Center of Excellence – Current projects: Nursery management, Mushroom Production (final details from VC)
- Professional Journal Indexed with High Impact Factor.
- Innovative Applied research and obtain IPR / Parents in various disciplines.
University Social responsibility (USR)
The university social responsibility (USR) is the capacity of higher education institutions (HEIs) to disseminate and implement a set of principles, general and specific values aimed at enhancing the educational and social challenges of the society through key processes: management, teaching, research and extension. BESTIU wishes to discharge its USR in an effective manner.
- To create 10 Model Smart Villages through integrated IT, social and economic development.
- To set up Center of Excellence for Integrated Development of Rayalseema Region with Govt and other Agencies.
- To promote USR (University Social Responsibility) in India / World and set examples for Global outreach and impact.