Abstract
Education is the light that shows the right direction and helps to achieve ones goal. A good and innovative teaching helps to produce knowledge rather than simply reproducing knowledge. A paradigm shift from teacher centered instruction to learner centric instruction will direct a student towards real time innovation. Hence, a new dimension in higher education called POGIL, an activity based learning has been designed to empower the students with conceptual knowledge. This team based learning enhances the thinking skills among students and has both personal and academic benefits. From the feedback obtained from both the students and the teachers after successful implementation of POGIL, it was confirmed that this learning technique improved their communication skills, listening skills, problem solving skills and gave an in depth knowledge of the subject.
Highlights
Innovation in any field is the key to so many global problems
The students experiencing a POGIL approach in class reported significantly higher improvements in their process skills compared with those students whose classes were taught in a lecture format. [11]
To understand the effectiveness of POGIL, results obtained in Engineering Chemistry course is compared with and without implementing POGIL in the classes
Summary
Innovation in any field is the key to so many global problems. In traditional methods of teaching students are considered as empty minds in which teacher fills the concepts adopting a suitable teaching methodology. The human mind has limitations on the rate and amount of new information it can accurately assimilate and comprehend, any strategy that attempts to transfer knowledge more or less directly from teacher to student-"teaching by telling" is ineffective for many if not most students [1]. To meet the changing education scenario a good teaching may be designed to affect maximum learning [2].A lecture class no longer entails a scripted delivery of information (no matter how well done) but it may include a variety of active learning techniques that truly engage students in learning [3]. To move students towards competence, they must be actively engaged in the learning process, involve in research projects and try to find solutions to the real world problems
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