Impact of Active Learning in Engineering Education

In conventional class room teaching, teacher gives a lecture and students watch and listen. It has been proved that students retain the concepts for longer time, only when they involve in doing i.e. learning by doing. Hence it is necessary to understand the next generation students, learning styles and implement some active learning strategies to make them involved in the learning process. This paper introduces some of the active learning strategies which are implemented in the engineering class room of a particular institute. This paper also discusses various challenges in implementing active learning and benefits of active learning strategies in detail, in contrast to conventional passive learning methodology.