Project

Enhancing the capacity of CNR staff

During this training programme, 33 lecturers of the College of Natural Resources (CNR) of the Royal University of Bhutan, were trained to design inter-disciplinary and market-oriented curricula and to build students' competencies to tackle complex societal problems such as sustainable development.

Interactive teaching approach

After having participated in a short course on Competing Claims, Dr Katel was so enthusiastic that he requested CDI to develop a joint project proposal and share the interactive teaching approach with his university in Bhutan. Some of the challenges they faced in Bhutan included a traditional way of teaching students, dropping number of students and little job opportunities for their graduates.

The Wageningen way of teaching

During this tailor-made training, 8 CNR colleagues visited Wageningen and participated in different lectures to get a taster of the Wageningen way of teaching. Furthermore CDI delivered two training courses in Bhutan to train CNR scientific staff.

The first training in Lobesa was very hands-on. Different teaching techniques and tools (that were observed in Wageningen) were reviewed and practiced in class. The staff evaluated itself on ability to apply student-centred methods in class very positively. Furthermore a curriculum scan was done to review selected undergraduate programmes on competence-based educational principles.

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Project information

RC Bhutan

Status:: Completed
Start project:: Sep 1, 2014
End project:: Aug 31, 2015

Client(s):: Nuffic

Partners:

College of Natural Resources - Royal University of Bhutan

Focus on adult learning approaches

In the second training the same group of lecturers met in a one-week training on short course curriculum design, delivery and management in which the same principles came back, with focus on adult learning approaches and interactive teaching. Of course the target audience of the learning programmes was different: mid-career professionals instead of students (future professionals). Substantial time was spent on designing 3 short courses (in teams).

Analysing the training evaluation results, and the very positive response from CNR senior management during the organisational scan, the trainers believe that this string of inter-related training sessions, was relevant, effective, and well received!