The department of IT implements various teaching methods to improve the understanding capacity of a student. The HoD hold meetings well in advance to the commencement of class work with all faculty handling a course to discuss the topic wise pedagogical methods to be adopted in day to day class work. For a particular topic in a course either a single or multiple number of methods are implemented depending on its difficulty.
The Outcome Based Education model is implemented in the department by blending student centric environment with the traditional teaching for effective teaching process by following various pedagogical strategies:
The faculty use chalk, board and audio-visual aids in teaching. The faculty organizes the activities of teaching to bring a desirable change in the behavior of the student. Students are encouraged to actively interact during the lecture hour by getting the doubts clarified. Students achieve the learning objectives of the class.
Inquiry-based learning is an approach to learning that emphasizes the student's role in the learning process. Rather than the teacher telling students what they need to know, students are encouraged to explore the material, ask questions, and share ideas.
For conventional classroom instruction, a teacher provides the material to the student and the student is the only person to receive the content delivered. The student does not communicate with the teacher or with other students. Such a conventional training approach cannot allow the student to the entire session. To make the class more involved and interactive, many researchers have implemented the platform to enhance their information delivery. The flipped classroom is one of the educational strategies that reverse the traditional classroom process.
Students were asked to go through the learning materials, and two days of preparation time was given. Each individual student will be given a question or problem as per higher bloom level and they should complete the task within fifteen minutes.
Collaborative learning is a group activity that involves students working together to obtain solution to a problem. Collaborative learning is effective in teaching programming course. Hence Collaborative learning is introduced to learn Java Programming. The basic process involves formation two student groups HOME (JIGSAW) groups and EXPERT groups. The group size would be at most 6. EXPERT group is formed with the leaders of JIGSAW group.
Collaborative learning involves implementing projects, writing reports, debates, group discussion and other activities. Collaborative learning can be conducted in the class by using different types of methodologies like Stump your partner, Student Teams Achievements Division (STAD), JIGSAW, Teams Games Tournaments (TGT), etc,.
Active learning is anything course-related that all students in a class session are required to do, other than simply watching, listening and taking notes. It shifts focus from what the instructor should deliver to what the students should be able to do and motivates students to be prepared for class, having assimilated material and being ready to use it.
Think-Pair-Share:
Think-pair-share (TPS) is a combined knowledge scheme where a teacher initiates a problem and students’ pair with each other to solve it and share their insights to the class.
Process:
This scheme uses three steps for active learning in class.
Implementation Scenario of TPS activity:
Our students were given a problem in java programming.
Learning outcome: Student should be able to write the program in java for a given task. Problem statement: Recall the string methods to apply on sorting names and search for a given name using binary search.
Think: Individually write pseudo-code for sorting and searching.
Pair: Students form pairs and discuss about the solution.
Share: Teacher collects the solutions from the students and summarizes one solution for the given problem.
Outcomes:
An open book examination is where a student can take his or her lecture notes, books, copies and other study material.
Open Book Exams (OBE):
An "Open Book Examination" is that in which students are allowed to refer to class notes and
summaries, textbooks, or other approved material while answering questions. Open Book
Examination creates an enriched environment, offering the opportunity to better understanding.
Process:
This scheme uses three steps for active learning in class.
Implementation Scenario of Open Book Exams (OBE) activity:
Our students were given a problem in java programming.
Learning outcome: Student should be able to write the program in java for a given task. Problem statement: Recall the string methods to apply on sorting names and search for a given name using binary search.
Think: Individually write pseudo-code for sorting and searching.
Pair: Students form pairs and discuss about the solution.
Share: Teacher collects the solutions from the students and summarizes one solution for the given problem.
Outcomes:
21st century revolution in the ICT obliges the teachers and students to keep themselves abreast of the-state-of-the-art of technological development. The deployment of them in teaching-learning process is imperative, since the technology is embedded in almost all walks of our life. ICT encapsulates IT and other media such as audio, video, pictures, animation, graphics, internet and other software packages. The use of technology to teach students has gained attention in recent past. The process of dissemination of information and elicit response from students is a huge task.
The department of IT uses LMS tools such as Canvas, Google classroom etc., to make the students submit their assignments, learn online and implement the experiments to gain knowledge about the concepts learnt in the class. Google Classroom, WebEx, etc. have been utilized by the faculty to teach the courses through online.
A massive open online course (MOOC) courses aims at providing high quality study materials to student/faculty community worldwide. The MOOC courses offered by Course- era, EdX, NPTEL are of high standards. The students are clustered in a group based on their MOOC course interest and the provider. Students are encouraged to complete a MOOC certification to acquire in depth knowledge. The response of students to MOOC course was minimal.
The department of IT uses LMS tools such as Canvas, MOOCs, Moodles, Virtual Labs etc., to make the students submit their assignments, learn online and implement the experiments to gain knowledge about the concepts learnt in the class. Recently, Google Classroom, Webex, etc. have been utilized by the faculty to teach the courses
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