IIM Bangalore professor launches unique courseflow for new business school faculty

NEW DELHI: Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore’s professor of strategy, Ganesh N Prabhu, has started a first-of-its-kind courseflow on the Nodes platform (app.ednodes.com) to help new business school faculty to teach, for the first time, a course on new product development. Prabhu has been teaching this course for the last 25 years at IIM Bangalore.

He has expertise in designing and teaching courses on product innovation, strategic management, and entrepreneurship.

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The course flow application includes complete information on every aspect of teaching the new course such as the course outline, overview of teaching objectives, session wise topics with preparatory notes, multiple case options for every topic, classroom slides, video lectures, video case links as well as typical examination questions and project grading methods, according to a statement from IIMB.

A discussion forum within the application enables faculty members to share their course experience and faculty can guide those who are teaching the course elsewhere, the statement said.

Prabhu said, “New faculty typically sit through a senior faculty’s classes before offering a course themselves, but this option is not easily accessible when no one is teaching that elective course in your own business school. The courseflow application helps distil the experienced faculty’s long years of experience and provides a good jump start to new faculty. It marks a new and innovative beginning in efforts to develop business school faculty in India, at a time when demand for faculty is increasing and faculty training has lagged.”

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Nodes Pvt Ltd, a social impact startup incubated by CIIE.co IIM Ahmedabad, has built this innovative technology platform to enable universities to access effective teaching courseflows, the statement added.

Prajakta Kulkarni, Founder, NODES, said: “We at Nodes (ednodes.com) have been working in the area of teacher training and faculty development for the past two years..It is now time to progress into a community-built repository of exemplary teaching processes so that faculty can offer new-age skill and professional courses to teach their students without any hesitation.”