Keeping up with the ever-evolving teaching methods and learning techniques is crucial in a world where the unexpected is increasingly the norm. Whether assessing the student’s needs, integrating technology, incorporating the student’s voice, collaborating with peers, or reflecting on one’s practices, exposing oneself to diverse ideas and opinions is the need of the hour. Simply put, bridging the gap between ‘what one knows’ and ‘what one can know’ can equip today’s educators with the right skills to harness the immense potential of their students and turn into reality the idea of a modernized, harmonious and inclusive global fraternity.
This year, NUMS Department of Health Professions Education (NDHPE) and NUMS Center for Lifelong Learning (NCL) teamed up to conduct a series of three-day faculty development workshops on ‘Redefining Teaching & Learning’ from 11th July 2024 to 13th September 2024 at NUMS PWD Campus. Overall, ‘55’faculty members from NUMS Department of Biological Sciences (NDBS), NUMS Department of Public Health (NDPH), NUMS Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (NDND), NUMS Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (NDSBS), NUMS Department of Psychology (NDP), and NUMS Department of Clinical Psychology (NDCP) zealously attended the annual Faculty Development Program (2024).
Day one of the FDP workshops revolved around the Exploration of Learning Theories, which Dr. Fozia Fatima and Dr. Asiya Zahoor facilitated. The faculty members participated in a hands-on activity of integrating learning theories while keeping in mind the Gynae Principles. Additionally, the knowledgeable facilitators actively drew the audience’s attention to Metacognitive Knowledge and Regulation.
Day two of the three-day workshops was centered on the Innovative Approach to Medical Curriculum. Dr. Naushaba Sadiq and Dr. Syeda Hanaa Fatima dynamically led sessions on innovative curriculum design as part of the three distinct cycles within the FDP (2024) workshop series. The workshops focused on integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into instructional design. The participants collaborated in small groups to create ‘curriculum models’ and experimented with AI-driven tools to identify effective teaching strategies and assessment methods.
Day three of the FDP (2024) series was about Professionalism and Ethics. The scholarly resource persons, Dr. Adeela Bashir and Dr. Naushaba Sadiq, primarily focused on the concepts of self-reflection and moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or activity. They skillfully shared what professionalism means in the global context and explained how ‘negative role modelling’ – a manifestation of declining professionalism—is attributed to deteriorating societal values and the lack of required mechanisms by institutions and regulatory authorities.
UDO (NUMS) worked alongside the NDHPE facilitators to ensure training impartiality and confirm that diversity, equity, and inclusion practices were determinedly executed. The workshop series concluded with remarks from Prof. Dr. Ayesha Rauf, Head of the NDHPE. The event also featured a Certificate Distribution Ceremony by the chief guest, Air Commander Muhammad Ismail, SI (M), Retired Consultant QA and Head of NCL & RD Directorate.
NCL’s Faculty Development Program (2024), undertaken in collaboration with NDHPE, was related to SDG 4 (Quality Education).
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Unrelenting advancements in today’s scholarly world call for unconventional curriculum planning, a complex term that requires all-encompassing information and an exhaustive approach to promise quality education to students. It is a multifaceted mix of instructive methodologies, course material, learning objectives, educational findings and environment, and students’ innate singular learning styles and schedules.
NUMS Department of Health Professions Education (NDHPE) and NUMS Center for Lifelong Learning (NCL) joined forces to carry out a series of three-day workshops on ‘Curriculum Planning & Implementation’ from 5th July 2023 to 9th August 2023 at NUMS PWD campus. The workshops positively drew the attention of NUMS faculty members. They enthusiastically attended by NUMS Department of Public Health (NDPH), NUMS Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (NDND), NUMS Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (NDSBS), NUMS Department of Psychology (NDP), and NUMS Department of Biological Sciences (NDBS).
The first days of the workshops were centered on Curriculum Planning. It is the process of identifying and organizing the educational content that the whole course shall follow. Likewise, a curriculum maker makes all the needed decisions regarding what the targeted learners will learn and how to deliver that material effectively. Ultimately, the aim is to enhance the graduate’s problem-solving skills, leadership acumen, management skillset, knowledge base, team collaboration, innovative thinking, flexibility, and ethical behavior.
Likewise, the finest approaches for Curricular Implementation were covered on day two of the workshops. Efficient curriculum implementation is a continuous process for university professors and lecturers rather than a one-time singular activity. Curriculum designing generally highlights educational tips, material or content, lesson ideas, and evaluation choices related to the intended set of goals. On the contrary, curriculum implementation revolves around faculty members delivering educational content and evaluating performance using stated resources provided in a particular curriculum.
On the third day of each workshop, we concluded the complete learning process with shared group activities and interactive sessions between the well-read and conversant NDHPE facilitators – namely Dr. Naushaba Sadiq, Dr. Adeela Bashir, Dr. Asiya Zahoor, Dr. Syeda Hanaa Fatima, and Dr. Fozia Fatima – and all the refined workshop participants.
A diversified group of NUMS faculty members actively participated and learned new ways of carrying out their lecturers throughout the entire Faculty Development Program (2023), competently led by NCL. A total of 70 faculty members were efficiently trained in 2023 by the joint efforts of NDHPE and NCL over three-day workshops. It was a magnificent collaborative attempt, thereby taking small steps toward the overall NUMS faculty development goal.
The three-day workshops by NDHPE and NCL were executed in the light of UN SDG 4 (Quality Education).
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