{"id":4711,"date":"2026-07-04T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:41:02","slug":"faculty-development-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/?p=4711","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Development Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The faculty members of Saveetha Hospitality Institute \u2013 Food &amp; Tourism (SHIFT), SIMATS, Thandalam, participated in a Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on June 26 of&nbsp;<strong>\u201cInnovative Pedagogies and AI Tools for Hospitality and Tourism Education.\u201d<\/strong>The programme was conducted by&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Sudhakar, Principal, Saveetha Pedagogical Institute of Education and Research (SPIER), SIMATS<\/strong>. The session highlighted the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence in hospitality and tourism education.Key topics included AI-powered pedagogy, generative AI simulations, personalized learning,virtual teaching assistants, ethical use of AI, and industry-academia collaboration. Dr. Sudhakar emphasized the need to equip students with future-ready skills through innovative teaching methods.The FDP provided practical insights into integrating AI technologies into classroom teaching and enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. Faculty members appreciated the informative and inspiring session, which strengthened their understanding of emerging educational trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The faculty members of Saveetha Hospitality Institute \u2013 Food &amp; Tourism (SHIFT), SIMATS, Thandalam, participated in a Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on June 26 of&nbsp;\u201cInnovative Pedagogies and AI Tools for Hospitality and Tourism Education.\u201dThe programme was conducted by&nbsp;Dr. Sudhakar, Principal, Saveetha Pedagogical Institute of Education and Research (SPIER), SIMATS. The session highlighted the transformative role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4713,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions\/4713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}