UPDATED: June 26, 2021 14:24 IST
Vandana Narang at one of the Delhi campus studios; Photo by Rajwant Rawat
1. National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi
1. National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi
Guru Speak | Prof. Vandana Narang
Campus director, NIFT, New Delhi The first lockdown, in late March 2020, took everyone by surprise. None of us could believe that it was possible to shut down everything and sit back. It took a week for reality to set in, after which we started to look for a way forward. However, after that, it didn’t take long for NIFT to work out a pedagogy for online classes. We used multiple online teaching platforms to train faculty members and then gave them a choice so that they could select the most comfortable medium to start classes. Initially, there was hesitancy regarding the feasibility of practical classes being conducted online. We were hoping things would return to normal soon. Later, the senior faculty members