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On the second day of the week long Faculty Development Programme titled ‘A Paradigm Shift in Teaching, Learning and Evaluation’, organized by the Internal Quality and Assurance Cell in collaboration with the Research and Faculty Development Committee of Sri Aurobindo College of Commerce and Management, Ludhiana, on 8th Feb, 2022, the participants learnt about the ‘Active Learning Techniques for Effective Teaching’. The resource persons for the session were eminent academicians and Educational Technology experts, Prof. Sameer Sahasrabudhe, Director, Educational Multimedia Research Center, Pune and Research Scientist, IIT Bombay, and Mr. Ganesh Lokhande,  a certified Instructional Designer and course team member, for some of the MOOCs offered through the SWAYAM platform. Addressing the gathering of academicians and scholars, Principal, Prof (Dr.) Vishal Kumar talked about the valuable contribution of Prof. Sahasrabudhe and Mr. Lokhande in the development of the Learner – Centric MOOC (LCM) model and the MOOCs platform and formally welcomed the expert speakers. During this engrossingly interactive session, the resource persons shared quite interesting Teaching Learning Pedagogies with the participants. The session revolved around various Active Learning techniques and strategies that a teacher can adopt to make his sessions engaging, interactive and lively. The Active Learning Strategies of ‘Think-Pair -Share’, ‘Predict-Observe-Explain’ and ‘Peer-Instruction’ were demonstrated at length involving the FDP participants throughout the session. Use of ‘Mentimeter’ to gauge the pulse of the students during a teaching session and many other Teaching Resources to learn ‘Active Learning Strategies’ were also shared with the audience.  The Day two session of this one-week FDP was moderated by Assistant Professor, Ms. Monica Sethi. Principal, Dr Vishal Kumar, acknowledged the unparalleled expertise of the luminary Prof. Dr Sameer, and was  indebted to the erudite scholar for sharing his ken with all present. Ms Prerna Ahuja, Assistant Professor, extended deep sense of gratitude to the much learned resource persons through formal vote of thanks.