Integrating emerging memory technologies into undergraduate logic design course: The impact of context based teaching

Abstract

This work is an attempt to explore the role of context in teaching and also to present a brief knowledge module intending emerging technologies related to core conventional courses to stimulate students towards research. In our knowledge module, we report the introduction of novel method of teaching based on context which is music in our case. The topic of our module includes two emerging memory devices, STT-MRAM and FeRAM. The knowledge module based on these two devices was delivered in two distinct ways to check the outcome of context based teaching. The main aim of our module was twofold. One of them was to stimulate interest in students towards research and innovation. Another one was to examine how the motivation can be increased by applying a context in the topic rather than using conventional teaching. We accumulated students feedback through a pre and two post module surveys. Both feedback revealed that participants were interested in learning emerging technologies, and a context based approach in one of the modules makes it more effective in attaining its goals.