An Effective Way of Implementing Experiential Learning for Laboratory Courses – A Case Study

Abstract

An effective teaching provides the power of education to the students, thus giving them the possibility suggested by NEP- 2020 is a better future. One of the challenges that is faced in this is to link the classroom teaching to a real-world scenario and thus making teaching more effective and relevant. An Experiential Learning, is a dynamic classroom approach, presents a possible alternative to memorization techniques. In this approach, students take responsibility for their learning by acquiring deeper knowledge about the subject matter through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems. This makes the students independent learners as they work for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, challenge, or problem. In this regard, Department has introduced the problembased learning in some its courses. This paper presents a problembased learning practiced for the course “Object Oriented Programming” for fourth semester UG students as a case study. Keywords—Experiential Learning; Higher Education Institutes (HEIs); NEP-2020; Outcome Based Education (OBE); Problem based Learning; Project based Learning.