PERFORMANCE OF THE COLLEGE IN AREA OF DISTINCTIVENESS

Sai College identifies itself with quality & inclusive education for students, and enabling them to excel in respective fields. This vision has led to the below distinct attributes of our institution.

A. STATE-OF-ART FACILITIES FOR COMPUTER EDUCATION FOR ENHANCED STUDENT LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE.

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B. USE OF IT-ENABLED TEACHING, LEARNING AND STUDENT COMMUNICATION DURING COVID AND POST-COVID.

A. STATE-OF-ART FACILITIES FOR COMPUTER EDUCATION FOR ENHANCED STUDENT LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE.

OBJECTIVE - 'A' 

In order to achieve the objective of highest standards of education, it is not only important to have excellent educators and laboratories, it is also critical to integrate state of art computer literacy through best of infrastructure possible. With this aim Department of Computer Applications was started in the year 2005, when computer education in colleges was still not very widely adopted.

ACTION  TAKEN TO ACHIEVE  THE OBJECTIVE ‘A’

Courses in Computer science and applications, by nature needs students to be able to use individual computer systems for learning and practice. Further, a large number of students come from weaker socio-economic backgrounds, and cannot afford to purchase an independent computer or laptop for their educational purpose.

Institute has therefore put strong emphasis on providing best facilities for computer practicals in laboratories so that 1:1 student to computer ratio can be maintained during the practical learning sessions, and also provides opportunity for students to use these computers for practice.

Over the years, we have developed 7 Computer laboratories with 430 Computers  for students use. We have some of the best faculty to teach latest computer programming languages required per industry trends and demands, in addition to the prescribed University curriculum.

CHALLENGES & ABATEMENT PLAN - 'A'

Upkeep & maintenance is a problem with infrastructure, and maintenance of large number of computer systems was a key challenge to be addressed. Additionally, routine IT support  and downtime of systems available was a challenge to ensure the labs were functional for all student operational days. In order to overcome these challenges, we developed in-house capability for maintenance of computer systems to control the cost and time involved in the upkeep activities. Further, to improve the lab availability, an IT support system was adopted, per which the students had an online mechanism (chat groups with hardware maintenance team) of getting their issues resolved real time, and hence managed reducing disruption of lab availability.

In order to keep these maintenance programs running, it was important to build self sustenance in the way these programs were managed. This is why, institute started utilizing the computer labs for computer based online tests (CBTs) for various Government/Private organisations during the idle time and weekends. College has conducted recruitment exams for Indian  Railways, Indian Airforce, JEE Advanced,NEET PG,State PSC, NMAT, practice tests for FIITJEE and many others in the past. Funds generated as a result of conducting these exams have been utilized in maintenance and upgradation of configuration of computer systems.

PERFORMANCE OF THE COLLEGE IN AREA OF DISTINCTIVENESS AS PER OBJECTIVE -'A'

Sai College is the only college under Hemchand Yadav University having 100 seats in BCA Course and 220 seats in PGDCA course. Out of these seats allotted 93% seats in BCA and 88% seats in PGDCA were filled in this current academic session.

In  last 5 years out of the total 19 students of college who were in university merit list , 13 students were from courses run by Department of Computer Science and Application. Sai College has gained popularity in the region for the courses being run by the Department of Computer Science and Application.

57% of the total students enrolled in the current session are enrolled in courses run by Department of Computer Science and Application.

BEST PRACTICE AS A RESULT OF RESOLVING CHALLENGES FOR ACHIEVEING OBJECTIVE - 'A'

Actions taken by the college to achieve  this distinctiveness have resulted in a best practice, per which we have continued to support our students and alumni in not only helping gain employment but provide employment. Example, many of our graduates who are either preparing for competitive examinations or are in the process of job search, support us as exam functionaries (online computer tests for external organisations), and are remunerated for the same. Other students who are interested to pursue their career in teaching are also encouraged to gain employment at our college.

B.USE OF IT-ENABLED TEACHING, LEARNING AND STUDENT COMMUNICATION DURING COVID AND POST-COVID.

OBJECTIVE - 'B'

Necessity is the mother of invention, and COVID produced a circumstance for us where IT enabled services were necessary to continue the teaching and learning for our students. In addition, it was critical to establish a mechanism to maintain rigorous communication with our students during the COVID times.

ACTION TAKEN TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVE –'B'

During the COVID pandemic, there were two major challenges.

One, ensuring accurate and timely information was communicated to students, especially critical information pertaining to their annual examinations timing and schedule.

Second, to continue teaching-learning process with students who could not afford to have an individual mobile or computer device, and had access to shared devices with friends and family..

To overcome the first challenge, Sai College took the lead in passing on  information to all the students of university by posting videos explaining the then latest notifications of university and state government through the college Youtube channel.

Second challenge was overcome by development of an indigenous Android mobile application through which Notes, recordings of lectures and live classes were shared with the students helping students to continue their learning during COVID period.

PERFORMANCE OF THE COLLEGE IN AREA OF DISTINCTIVENESS AS PER OBJECTIVE - 'B'

Sai College Youtube channel provided accurate and timely information to all students, and  hence resulted in growth of subscribers from 72 to 9000+ today.

The views received on videos explaining university notifications went as high  as 55779; this video helped student understand how to participate in examinations conducted during COVID period.

The Android mobile application of college is currently being used as a platform for sharing the videos prepared by the training placement cell informing students about job opportunities available locally. These best practices are being continued to be used for students, towards uplifting the way we deliver highest standards of educational experience to them.