“Activity based teaching learning in Engineering Education, a course on: Embedded Systems”

Abstract

The activity-based teaching and learning approach is presented in this paper for undergraduate engineering students. The primary goal of this undertaking is to maximize the student learning. The conventional teaching-learning environment induces monotonicity due to repetitive nature of teaching and absence of activities which does not provide much beneficial effects on increasing students’ levels of knowledge. The activity-based teaching-learning circumvents the shortcomings of the conventional approach in transmission of educational content. In this paper, various modes of progressive pedagogy to increase the student participation in active learning are explored. Activity based teaching-learning is anything related to course in which all the students in a class to participate actively rather than to simply sit, watch, listen and take notes. This paper explains various activities developed and practiced in order to accomplish the goal. The activities described in this paper were implemented with the students majoring in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) in their sixth semester mandatory course called "Embedded Systems". After examining the efficacy of the activities it was observed that the recommended strategy of active learning offers additional possibilities to learn outside of the traditional classroom setting. The performance of the Continuous Internal Evaluation (CIE) serves as the metric for determining the effectiveness of these activities. Keywords— Activity-based teaching, learning approach, Electronics and Communication Engineering, embedded systems