First lecture of

Maharshi Karve Lecture Series 2012

a talk by

Prof. Ram Takwale

President, I-CONSENT & Director, MKCL

SNDT Women’s University inaugurated the Maharshi Karve Lecture Series with an inaugural lecture by Professor Ram Takwale on the 19^th Jan 2012. In her inaugural address, the Pro Vice Chancellor Prof. Vandana Chakrabarti said the lecture series was conceived as an interface between the university and the outside world, where the best minds would be invited to discuss the toughest questions of our times.

Prof. Takwale spoke on “New Education for Empowering Learners in an Always Connected Society”. He began with the pertinent question: teachers today must educate a generation who has a better hold on technology than themselves. How can teachers adapt themselves productively to this situation? He stressed on the need for new forms of learning in keeping with the new kinds of technology available to the learners.

The talk highlighted the ways in which technology could be integrated into the teaching learning process. The lecture provoked a large number of engaged questions from the audience. The event concluded with the Vice Chancellor Prof Vasudha Kamat's presidential address, which emphasized the difference between information dissemination and learning, Prof Kamat also argued that learning includes the processes of learning and not merely the content which is to be learnt.