The Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) constantly strives to make sure that management education is adaptable to international, technological, and dynamic market situations. IPE has a strong curriculum, a robust program structure, and a well-defined pedagogy that is not only relevant to modern times but also internationally competitive. IPE implements the right mix of teaching pedagogy. Faculty members make every effort to make the classes interactive so that students can establish a link between the theories and the practical examples.

In addition to teaching methods, the faculty uses case studies, group discussions, role plays, practical project work, simulation games, computer-based exercises and review presentations, etc. to develop analytical, and decision-making skills. A conscious attempt is made to evaluate students’ performance on a continuous basis through quizzes, group projects, assignments, project work, and mid-term and end-term examinations to ensure effective learning of management concepts and tools.

Mentioned below are a few teaching and learning initiatives taken by faculty at IPE

  1. Experiential learning: Students through internships, business competitions, and entrepreneurship programs go through an experiential learning process. All the students have an opportunity to be part of one or the other experiential learning program. Students gain valuable practical experience, understand more about the industry, and develop certain key skills which are sometimes difficult to teach in a classroom. Students are also encouraged to take up real-time consulting projects. These types of consultancy assignments provide an opportunity for the students to work with the actual company data and develop and recommend apt business strategies for the company. These activities help in building confidence among the students, developing decision-making skills, and providing clarity in managing and executing different business strategies.
  2. Blended Learning: Blended learning at IPE is a mix of both conventional classroom teaching as well as and online modes of teaching. The institute’s blended methodology combines online lectures, forums, and activities along with face-to-face lectures on campus. Blending learning helps the students to attend online lectures from distinguished industry professionals, corporate leaders, and other established academicians who are located at different places through webinars/video conferencing, etc. This helps the student to spend more time discussing real-life problems based on the concepts.
  3. Mentoring: The Institute follows a system of mentoring the students. At the beginning of the First Trimester, each faculty is appointed as a mentor for 12 students. The mentors of the college would extend guidance to the mentees in various aspects such as classroom performance, attendance, performance in examinations, identifying the slow learners and providing necessary coaching through tutorials to improve the performance, participation in extra-curricular activities, guiding the summer internship project, guiding the long-term research project, etc.
  4. Individual and Group Assignments: The faculty members of the Institute of Public Enterprises assign individual and group assignments to students requiring real-time industry and economy data from Bloomberg, Prowess, and SAS. The student's performance in such assignments/projects is assessed and suitable suggestions are made for an in-depth understanding of the subject.
  5. Summer InternshipProgramme: The first year of PGDM requires the students to undergo rigorous learning of fundamental courses in the management domain followed by a summer internship program that helps the student to gain a hands-on experience in the application of theoretical concepts and functional skills. Each student is required to undertake practical training in an organization of repute for 8-10 weeks and is part of the course curriculum. The project training provides an opportunity for the students to have first-hand practical exposure and allows them to relate the conceptual and analytical skills acquired in the classroom to actual managerial practices. Since the 2016-17 academic year, the Institute has started appointing a faculty mentor along with the expert from the organization (where the project is carried out) to keep a constant check on the quantum of work done at each stage of the internship program and aid the students in project preparation. Upon the completion of the summer internship, the students are required to submit a report to the company and the institute. The report is evaluated by the faculty mentor and the student needs to defend the project before a faculty committee in the viva.
  6. Long-term Research Project: Each student in the final semester of the program is required to undertake a Final Research Project (FRP) under the guidance of a faculty supervisor. It is carried out in Trimester VI. As part of the evaluation, the student needs to submit the report and defend it in the viva. The project submitted by the student includes the objectives of the project, quality of research design, adequacy of literature review, a component of fieldwork, adequacy of data analysis, practical relevance, etc.
  7. Joint Publications by Faculty and Students: The Institute encourages students to author publications along with faculty. They are encouraged to present publications at research conferences. They are also encouraged to associate with faculty in research projects.
  8. Personality Development and Grooming: The Institute believes in the effective engagement of students for better learning outcomes. The faculty takes a keen interest in the personality development and grooming of the student. The faculty actively engages in conducting the mock GDs, mock personal interviews, and mock aptitude tests which help in getting better results in the recruitment process.
  9. Promoting Inclusiveness in Society: The faculty encourages students to devote reasonable time to promoting inclusiveness in society. The students are encouraged to conduct blood donation camps for the cause of Thalassemia patients. The students, through the social club, are motivated to start ‘The Box of Kindness’ through which the students collect unused things, and materials from faculty, staff, and students to distribute the same to needy people. The students visit an orphanage, invite the children to the campus, take them around the campus, engage them with entertainment, games, etc., offer them gifts, treat them with empathy and host them sumptuous lunches with care and love. This initiative facilitates holistic learning with a human face.
  10. Learning Management System -Moodle: The faculty use an online learning platform like Moodle which helps in sharing of teaching material, student evaluation, assignments, and quizzes and ensures enriched learning for each student as the open source software has a useful set of tools that facilitates collaborative learning and enhances the effectiveness of teaching and learning in an appropriate mode and ambiance.

Seeing the above-mentioned reasons, one can easily say that the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) has amazing Teaching - Learning Methodology.