A Study on Perception of the Teaching Faculty on Learning and Development Techniques used in Academics

The convergence of social, economic and global forces in the knowledge driven era poses new challenges to the present learning and development process. In view of this, faculty development is considered as an enduring process that enhances the productivity of academics for helping faculty to play their instructional, professional, and organizational roles effectively. It promotes academic excellence and innovation, sharpens conceptual, human, and technical skills of faculty and enables academic institutions to produce employable graduates. The learning and development programs are a means to expose the faculty in higher education to review, renew and extend their commitment as change agents to the moral purposes of teaching; and by which they acquire and develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes. The present study tries to explore the various learning and development techniques which are helpful for the faculty to perform their job effectively. To achieve this objective, a purposive sampling technique adopted to collect the data from teaching faculties of Malla Reddy University, Hyderabad through structured questionnaire. The results revealed the need for university faculty to be trained in the light of technological innovations.