Abstract
In the current era of education,quality of the content delivery is considered as important as the Course Contents to attain the objectives of the course. Quality Content delivery methods leverage technology and place more emphasis on active learning. This paper highlights few of the active learning strategies and ICT tools. Also, this paper presents a streamlined approach to choose a Active learning(AL) method and ICT tool to from among the rich set of available tools and strategies to deliver a content effectively. The proposed approach decides the suitability of the ALmethod and ICT tool chosen to deliver a particular content based on the nature of the content structure and expected cognitive level of learning the content. An attempt to identify the prominent learning style of the students in a class and chart an efficient content delivery plan by matching an appropriate AL strategy with suitable ICT tool is presented in this paper. The proposed approach was practiced in fourth semester B.Tech (Information Technology) class of 72 students for Computer Networks Course. The effectiveness of the implemented approach is measured using standard tools and presented.
Highlights
Teaching and learning has takena new dimension in recent days
Employing active learning strategies becomes easier with the use of ICT tools.A wide range of ICT tools and AL strategies are available, but it is the responsibility of the teacher to find a tool/strategy that best suits the nature of the content
The following section explains the proposed method to integrate ICT tools and Active learning methodsbased on the learning styles of the learners in the class room, nature of the course contents and cognitive levels of learning objectives
Summary
Teaching and learning has takena new dimension in recent days. Modern Teaching-learning processlays a lot of emphasis on active learning in class, opposite to the passive learning of conservative teachinglearning process. Some of the widely used ICT toolsare such as educational videos, video lectures, Animations that provide visualization of the concepts, Simulations and other tools like wikis, blogs and forums. Usage of ICT tools helps the learners to understand the concepts better and excel. It is an excellent practice to integrate the usage of ICT tools with active learning strategies. Employing active learning strategies becomes easier with the use of ICT tools.A wide range of ICT tools and AL strategies are available, but it is the responsibility of the teacher to find a tool/strategy that best suits the nature of the content. This work aims to bring out a set of standard guidelines to choose and integrate a specific ICT tool and AL strategy suitable for delivering course content
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