Librarian Development Programme – 2019

One day National Librarian Development Programme was organised at SPB English Medium College of Commerce, Surat on Saturday, 6^th October 2018.

LDP started with a prayer, the inaugural function started by taking the blessings from Shri C S Jariwala, Chairman, Sarvajanik Education Society, Surat and Dr. Hemali Desai, Dean of Faculty of Arts and the Principal of ROFEL College, Vapi. The key note speaker at the function was the honourable General Secretary, MANLIBNET Dr. Akhtar Parvez, Chief Librarian Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. Dr. V. D. Naik, Prinicipal, SPB College, Shri Bharatbhai Shah, Chairman of our College Local Administrative Committee brought grace to the dais and a well-meant vote of thanks by Dr. Heena Oza, chair person, IQAC made the inaugural function an enjoyable impetus.

The number of participants was 52 and an agglomeration of librarians from school libraries, college libraries, technical institutions like ITI, Polytechnics, Medical colleges and local state and private universities.

The active sessions started with Dr. S. K. Patil, former Chief Librarian SP Pune University, on “Open Access E Resources in Sciences and Social Sciences.” It was a worthy session as Dr. Patil discussed in detail the free and open access e- resources available. There was a decent amount of query about these E Resources.

Second Session was taken up by Dr. Akhtar Parvez, Chief Librarian Maulana Azad National Urdu University on “Subscription of E Resources Issues and Challenges”. Real time issues like MOU, contract documents and Terms and conditions in the MOU etc were discussed in a dynamic manner. He also gave a piece of advice to the participant librarians to have a credit card in the name of the principal for making online payments. It was a very interactive session as many doubts of participants were unfolded.

Third session by Dr. T.S. Kumbar, Chief Librarian IIT Gandhinagar, on “Predatory publishing” dealt with the risk of going into the hands of such publishers. The session focused on the working ways of such publishers with un- realistic or impractical impact factors and ISSNs and ISBNs and dubious international stature given to their publication. Role of UGC in removing and regularising the list of journals was also discussed.

We authorized the Pearson Inc., to take up and demonstrate the “E- Book” concept, their procurement mode and the access issues in detail in the post lunch session. This is because of the fact that the e-books from Pearson’s were found to be popular among our students in their access and also content-wise. This also found to be a successful interaction section more than what expected.

We at SPB were delighted to see the electrifying presence of some of the MANLIBNET office bearers at the LDP. At the conclusion session the participants’ feedback was sought. Active involvement of the participants and the energetic and friendly interactions from the resource persons made the day comprehensively creative and productive. I thoroughly thank the MANLIBNET in general and Dr. Mita Rathod in perticular especially for the help extended in organising the Librarian Development Programme at SPB. I thank profoundly our dynamic Principal Dr. V D Naik and the ever smiling and overwhelmingly supportive SPB Family for making this day in SPB chronicle.

Ms. N Padma

Organising Secretary

3^rd One week National Faculty Development Programme

Internal Quality Assurance Cell of SPB English Medium College of Commerce, Surat in collaboration with South Gujarat Branch of Indian accounting Association organised The 3^rd One Week National Faculty Development Programme on “Integrating ICT in Research and Teaching” from 14^th March to 21^st March, 2019.

78 Faculty members of various subjects from various parts of India actively participated. The NFDP has been held for the purpose of enriching the knowledge of faculties in research and teaching with Information and Communication Technologies, with focus on developing capabilities of faculties for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and data analysis using time series and panel data analysis.

Day 1

March 14, 2019

Inaugural Function

The 3^rd one week National faculty development programme was inaugurated in the presence of distinguished guest Hon’ble Dr. Nityesh Bhatt, Professor, Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Hon’ble Dr. Sanket Vij, Dean, Faculty of Commerce & Management, B.P.S. Women University, Khanpur Kalan, Sonipat, Haryana, Shri Rajesh Desai, Second Vice Chairman, Sarvajanik Education Society, Shri Bharatbhai Shah, Chairman LAC and Prin.Dr. K.N. Chavada. The function started with lighting of the Lamp followed by prayer. Principal Dr. V.D. Naik delivered the welcome address and the IQAC Co-ordinator Dr. Heena Oza enlightened the gathering with the theme of the NFDP. Shri Rajesh Desai, Second Vice Chairman of Sarvajanik Education Society delivered his talk emphasizing requirement of ICT in Research and Teaching. Further, Dr Sanket Vij, talked about the importance of the human touch in the era of ICT.

Key note Session

The Key note speaker, Dr. Nityesh Bhatt highlighted how well ICT can be integrated in effective teaching, learning and research. CA Dr. Bharat Shah, Chairman, LAC emphasised significance of ICT and complimented the college for conducting consecutive 3^rd One Week FDP.

Dr. K.N. Chavda, Principal, Amroli College and Chairman of South Gujarat Branch of Indian Accounting Association was present in the inaugural function. Vote of thanks was delivered by IQAC Co-ordinator, Dr. Heena Oza.

Pre Lunch Session

Resource Person- Dr. Sanket Vij (Data Analysis and Open Resources)

On the very first day after Inaugural Function, Dr. Sanket Vij took the charge of the sessions for the day. He gave an overview of research methodology. He gave information of using open source software Jamovi for data analysis. He explained Open ended and Close ended questions, Likert’s Scale, etc.

Post Lunch Session

Resource Person- Dr. Sanket Vij (Data Analysis and Open Resources)

On the same day, after lunch session, Dr. Sanket Vij gave another software R Studio useful when researcher develops his own coding for statistical test in Research. He directed to download packages in R Studio. He gave the information on Plagrism Check tools, discussed how and why plagiarism check is essential and the context for introduction of such provisions.The faculties keenly interacted with the resource person, on related topics. The day extended upto 6:00 p.m. as the faculties were keen to know about the issues they face in research.

Day 2

March 15, 2019

Day 2 & 3 had been allotted for theme of integrating ICT in Teaching. The focus of these days had been MOOCs.

Resources Persons- Dr. W.C. Singh and Dr. Nilam Panchal (Digital Education and Importance of MOOCs, Four Quadrants, Preparation, Budgetary Provisions of MOOCs and Drafting Proposals)

Pre Lunch Sessions

Second day, Dr. W.C. Singh was resource person for the first session. He started with the delivery of information about inequal Educational Status of India. He gave brief knowledge of various portal for digital education which includes Swayam Prabha, e-Pathshala, e-PG Pathshala, Shagun Portal, etc. to take pace for eradiacating inequality in Education system. Furthermore Dr. Nilam Panchal gave importance of MOOCs after digitalisation.

Dr. Nilam Panchal had taken charge of the second session and informed about the importance of Massive Open Online Courses to academicians in score of API. She gave her insight on upcoming future opportunities in web based distance learning programme for faculties.

Post Lunch session

After lunch, during the last two sessions, Dr. Nilam Panchal explained the procedure of drafting Proposal for MOOCs. She gave the brief idea about four Quadrants, credit course and detailed course structure. Dr. W.C. Singh brought to light the Budgetary Provisions.

Day 3

March 15, 2019

Resource Persons- Dr. W.C. Singh and Dr. Nilam Panchal (Experiences, Production studio and Editing Set up)

Pre Lunch Session

On the Third Day, Dr. W.C. Singh and Dr. Nilam Panchal discussed proposal drafted by participants. They highlighted the practical aspects of MOOCs and problems in preparing proposals.

Post Lunch Session

On third day, post lunch, Dr. Nilam Panchal and Dr. W.C. Singh shared their experiences about practical set up of Production Studio and Editing Set up, the environment of studio, precautions to be taken care etc. At last, participants raised the queries and with the same exuberance the resourse persons answered.

Day 4

March 17, 2019

Hands-on practice Sessions

The Fourth Day was allotted for practicing various techniques learnt during previous days. Participants practised the research tools learnt in the previous sessions on their laptops.

Day 5

March 18, 2019

Resource Person- Dr. D.P. Raykundaliya (Time Series)

Pre Lunch Session

On fifth day, Dr. D. P. Raykundaliya, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidhyanagar, started the session with introduction of faculties. Then he gave the basic understanding of R language and helped participants practice on their own laptops. He highlighted caution to be taken while coding is to be done.  Later, he explained various types and characteristics of time series.

Post Lunch Session

In Post Lunch Session, Dr. D.P. Raykundaliya gave an insight on components of Time Series. Furthermore he highlighted the irregular time series and gave divergence between White Noise Process, Stationary Process and Non-Stationary Process. He explained Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model (ARIMA) and Augmented Dickey fuller test (ADF) in R. The Session ended with quick recap and resolution of queries.

Day 6

March 18, 2019

Resource Person- Dr. Dinesh Jaisinghani (Panel Data)

Dr. Dinesh Jaishinghani, Professor (Finance and Accounting) FIIB, New Delhi took charge of last two days of NFDP 2019.

Pre Lunch Session

Dr. Dinesh Jaishinghani began with Quantitative and Qualitative data and explained arrangement of data in Cross sectional data, Time series data and the Last Panel data. Furthermore he explained scale of data such as Nominal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratios.

Post Lunch Session

In post lunch session, Dr. Dinesh Jaisinghani explained Mathematical relationship and Statistical relationship. He gave in depth knowledge of five types of distributions having statistical relation. He gave various techniques for regression including OLS, GMM, GLM, etc. He gave his insight on various components of panel data with question-answer session at end.

Day 7

March 19, 2019

Resource Person- Dr. Dinesh Jaisinghani (Panel Data)

Pre Lunch Session

On the last day of NFDP 2019, Dr. Dinesh Jaisinghani explained with steps to be followed while going for panel data in Research. He gave his insight on homogeneity and heterogeneity of data. He explained the importance and need of dummy variable. The session ended with understanding of Fixed Effect Model (FEM) and Random Effect Model (REM).

Post Lunch Sessions

During post lunch session, Dr. Dinesh Jaisinghani explained practical aspect of panel data on Eviews10 software. He gave brief knowledge of different features of Eviews10 and made faculties practice on panel data on Eviews10 applying FEM and REM. Further, he explained how accurately one can draw conclusions out of the results derived from a software.

Resource Person- Dr. Kiran Pandya (Primary Vs Secondary Data in Research)

In the last session, Dr. Kiran Pandya, Professor and Head of Department of HRD, VNSGU gave his insight on importance of primary data as well as secondary data in research.

Valedictory Function

In Valedictory function, Expert-Speakers Dr. Kiran Pandya, Head, MHRD VNSGU and Dr. Dinesh Jaisinghani, Shri Kamlesh Yagnik, First Vice Chairman of Sarvajanik Education Society, Dr. K.N. Chavda, Principal, Amroli College and Chairman of South Gujarat Branch of IAA and Dr. Heena Oza, Organising Secratary honoured the participants with the certificates.

The participants’ feedback on the design of FDP, the infrastructure, the provision of study materials and registration kit, the hospitality, the time management, the quality of resource persons, value for money and time were rated excellently by the participants.

In the third NFDP, the announcement about the fourth NFDP in next-academic year was welcomed by the faculties. The Vote of Thanks was delivered by IQAC Co-ordinator Dr. Heena S. Oza. The Programme concluded with the National Anthem.

Dr. Heena Sunil Oza

Organising Secretary

2^nd One week National Faculty Development Programme

 Introduction

IQAC Cell of SPB English Medium College of Commerce, Surat and Indian Accounting Association, South Gujarat Branch jointly organised 2^ndOne Week National Faculty Development Programme on Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) using AMOS from 19^th February to 25^th February, 2018.

67 Faculty members from various part of India participated in the programme. The faculties ranged from junior faculties pursuing research, faculties with Doctorate having Guideship for M. Phil. And Ph.D. courses.

The main aim of the NFDP was to enhance the research effectiveness and efficiency of Faculty Members & Research scholars and thereby furtherance of the quality of research output. The workshop was framed to provide an interactive platform to the researchers to enhance understanding of advance statistical techniques as well as providing hands–on experience in analyzing data using latest versions of SPSS and AMOS for statistical analysis. The Programme included Breakfast, 2 tea breaks, and Lunch daily.  Study kit given to the participants included study material in soft copy in pen-drive and Pen and notebook .

Day 1: 19^th February, 2018

Inauguration Function:

The 2^ndOne Week National Faculty Development Programme was inaugurated by Honourable Dr.Sanket Vij, Dean, Faculty of Commerce & Management, BPS Mahila Vishwavidhalaya, Sonepat Haryana, Honourable Dr. J.M.Naik, Dean, Faculty of Commerce, VNSGU and Honourable CA Bharat Shah, Chairman, LAC with the lightning of lamp followed by Prayer song. Later the Principal, Dr. V.D. Naik deliverd the IQAC Co-ordinator Dr. Heena Sunil Oza, described the theme and purpose of NFDP and set the ball rolling. Dr. J. M. Naik, Dean of Commerce showed his concern for quality aspect in Research. In the key note address Prof. Sanket Vij emphasized to do research in socially relevant areas. CA Bharat Shah expressed that in the higher education, continuous learning and research plays very important role and complimented the College for organizing one week workshop.

Dr. K.N. Chavda, Principal, Amroli College and Chairman of South Gujarat Branch of IAA offered a vote of thanks. Principals of other different Colleges and HODs of VNSGU were present in the inaugural function.

Pre Lunch Session:

Resource Person – Dr. SanketVij (Data Editing)

The very first day Dr. Sanket Vij gave his key note address. The first session started with the ice breaking session in which the participants were asked to give their introduction He covered the topics of data editing, collection of data and sample size.

Post Lunch Session:

Resource Person – Dr. Sanket Vij (Exploring Data)

On the same day the post lunch session was conducted by Dr. Sanket Vij in which he shared his ideas on exploring the data. Last but not the least when the house was open for questions the academicians were keen to ask and with the same level of enthusiasm they were justifiably answered by professor.

Day 2: 20^th February, 2018

Pre Lunch Session:

First Session:

Resource Person – Dr.Kiran Pandya (Literature Review)

Prof. (Dr.) Kiran Pandya was the resource person for the first session of the second day. He started with that a research starts with a theory followed by literature review formation of hypothesis and finally collection of data.

Further in his session he explained how a researcher has to choose and go about the literature review. Next topic in his session was how to approach the literature. He explicitly stated that while surveying the literature a researcher must start with the data available on the respective topic and check the dominant theories in that area of research. The top journals, cited papers leading associations and important conferences act as a lot of input to the researcher’s literature. He concluded stating the importance and purposes of literature review.

Second Session:

Resource Person – Dr.Heena Oza (Literature Review)

On the same day the second session was conducted by Dr.Heena Oza in which she shared his ideas on topic of literature review and also on emphasized on the methods of the collection of data. She made the session interactive and based on various examples for better understanding of the participants. When the house was open for questions the participants were keen to ask questions especially the fresher to research work and with the same level of enthusiasm they were justifiably answered by professor.

Post Lunch Session:

Resource Person – Dr, Gaurang  Rami (Correlation)

Prof. (Dr.) Gaurang Rami was the resource person of the Post Lunch session. He explained the methods of analyzing the relationship between two quantitative variables. He discussed that the most commonly used techniques for investigating the relationship between two quantitative variables are correlation and linear regression. He stated that correlation quantifies the strength of the linear relationship between a pair of variables, whereas regression expresses the relationship in the form of an equation. He then highlighted the on the concept of correlation. He explained that correlation is a measure of association between two variables. The two most popular correlation coefficients are: Spearman’s correlation coefficient rho and Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient. When calculating a correlation coefficient for ordinal data, select Spearman’s technique. For interval or ratio-type data, use Pearson’s technique.

Day 3: 21^stFebruary, 2018

Pre Lunch Session

Resource Person – Dr. BhaveshVanpariya (Exploratory Factor Analysis)

Prof. (Dr.) BhaveshVanpariya was the resource person of the Pre Lunch session. He delivered expert sessions on Factor Analysis using SPSS. He took sessions on Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Difference between Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Determining Validity and Reliability of Scale using CFA, Cronbach’s alpha: a coefficient of internal consistency, etc on SPSS software. He took various examples and gave all the participants hand-on practice on their laptops. All the queries were resolved by the expert. He also gave an insight on the ways to write the analysis of result which is being produced by the software. He explained in depth the techniques of Exploratory Factor Analysis and when it is used.

Post Lunch Session:

Resource Person – Dr.Gaurang Rami (Regression)

Post lunch session was conducted by Dr. Guarang Rami.  He gave an insight on the concept of regression. He threw light on the assumptions of regression and the steps of regression. He said after performing correlation analysis, the regression statistics can be used to predict the dependent variable when the independent variable is known. Regression goes beyond correlation by adding prediction capabilities.

Day 4 to Day 6(22^nd February – to 24^th February, 2018)

All the sessions were taken by resource personProf.Dr.Gurjeet Kaur- Professor of Marketing in the Department of Commerce at University of Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir.

Day 4: 22^nd February, 2018-(Confirmatory Factor Analysis)

She delivered expert sessions on Confirmatory Factor Analysis showing the difference between Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis. When one should go for Exploratory Factor analysis and when to use Confirmatory Factor Analysis. She further covered determining validity and reliability of scale using CFA, Cronbach’s alpha: a coefficient of internal consistency, etc on SPSS software.

Hands-on Practice:                                         

In Post lunch session she took various examples and gave all the participants hand-on practice on their laptops. She also gaved an insight on the ways to write the analysis of result which is being produced by the software. He explained in depth the techniques like Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

Day 5: 23^rd February, 2018-(SEM – Path Analysis and Testing of Hypothesis)

The session of the FDP started with Dr.Gurjeet Kaur on a very high note as the topic was totally new for all the participants. She gave his insight on the topic of Path Analysis and Testing of Hypothesis.

Further in her session she explained testing of hypothesis and path analysis with the practical illustrations and hands-on training to all the participants.

Day 6 & 7: 24^th February, 2018 & 25^th February, 2018

Pre Lunch Session:

Resource Person – Dr. Gurjeet Kaur (SEM – Result Reporting, Use of mediations, Use of moderations)

The topics which she covered were SEM – Result Reporting, Use of mediations and Use of moderations. She took case study and made all the participants to work live on their laptops. All the queries were resolved by the expert very thoroughly. She also gave the insight on the ways to write/ report SEM result analysis which is being produced by the software (AMOS). The complete revision of SEM with Case Studies on Marketing and Customer Satisfaction Study (Practical sessions) by working on SEM (in AMOS).

Valedictory Function

On seventh day post lunch certificates were distributed to the participants. Shri Rajesh Desai, Second Vice Chairman, SES, Shri Bharat Shah, Chairman, LAC &Dr. K.N. Chavda, Principal, Amroli College and Chairman of South Gujarat Branch of IAA honored the participants with the certificates. Vote of thanks was delivered by Professor Dr. P.K.Chakraborty. Finally participants were asked to come on the dice and share their experience and learning of the whole NFDP Programme. The programme was concluded with National Anthem and Happy Note from everyone.