Creating a Learner Centric Environment through POGIL: Our Experience in Engineering and Management Education in India

Abstract

Lectures and little emphasis is on student involvement. To enhance the skills of the students/learners they need to be involved in the learning process. This paper describes the use of Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in an engineering and management college in Andhra Pradesh, India. Though POGIL has been developed and validated extensively over the last 15 years in the US, it is quite new in the Indian scenario and in Engineering and Management education. The authors share the process steps followed in introducing POGIL in the classroom and highlight the changes that they observed in the students and the teachers after introducing POGIL. The authors observed increased classroom interaction and improved grades in students. These positive findings encourage the authors to further use POGIL in engineering and management and spread POGIL to other colleges.