Media Release

Mangaluru, Jul 14: A one day faculty development programme on 'Case Method of Teaching and Case Writing' was organized by the department of business administration at St Joseph Engineering College – Vamanjoor, here on Tuesday July 12. The resource persons were professor B V Raghunandan, retired professor of commerce, SVS College, Bantwal and Dr K Rajasekharan Pillai, professor, School of Management, Manipal University.

The morning session was handled by professor B V Raghunandan on Case Method of Teaching, which is very necessary in classroom teaching. The resource person enlightened the participants on the various issues which can be brought up as a case and can be discussed in the classrooms. He focused on related topics like ‘How to present a case study’, ‘How to form groups for analyzing a case’, ‘Problems to be tackled while analyzing a case’ etc. His presentation was very extensive and informative to the audience.

The afternoon session was handled by Dr K Rajasekharan Pillai, on case writing and demonstrated various cases from different journals including Harvard cases. The resource person spoke on the matters relating to the ‘contents of a case study’, ‘teaching notes’, writing skills and the perseverance required for the author while writing a case study. Participants had many queries to which he responded appropriately.

Faculty members from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi District and Bengaluru colleges participated in the programme. In total there were 45 faculty participants. Dr Prakash Pinto, dean MBA and FDP-chair welcomed the gathering and assistant professor and the organizing secretary, K Manjula proposed the vote of thanks.