Abstract
challenges and improve the quality of learning process and make learning as a pleasant experience, we suggest to adopt some components as a part of teaching methods like Think share pair, Inculcation of Group activity, Problem definition and analysis, Hands-on process to learn a few concepts, Poster presentation, Student feedback, Exhibitions, Application of new technology in teaching, and many more.
Thus keeping improvisation of learning process as the motto, we make an attempt by taking some courses as cases and demonstrate the learning process with assessment. To make some courses a pleasant learning experience, adopting certain pedagogies like module-wise quizzes, assigning team activity on some of the theoretical concepts, giving field work to groups, facilitating students for poster presentation and exhibitions, assigning the real world simple problems or open ended problems and a scheme that facilitates to assess student’s understanding. These attempts have improved the student learning process and helped them in laying a solid foundation to learn theory courses. The paper narrates the experience of the authors.
Keywords — Course Outcomes (COs), Curriculum, Assessment, Learning objectives, Data structures and Application (DSA), Semester End Examination (SEE) .
I. INTRODUCTION
Education is a primary factor in everyone’s life. Education systems have been increasing rapidly over the years. Education system in Indian is tested for knowledge and intelligence at each level. It is very important to get the innovative and creative teaching learning processes for the advancements of technology. Earlier, the professor would give long lecture in the hall which was a one way communication and students would quietly listen to the professor which would end up being a boring lecture.
However now a days all these are replaced by innovative e-learning and creativity in the way of teaching and sharing the knowledge. All the concepts in creative learning and e-learning are taught by practical knowledge.
Many subjects like Data Communication (DC), Object Oriented Modeling and Design (OOMD), Storage area Networks (SAN), C-Programming for Problem Solving (CPS) Micro-processor, micro-controller, Basic Electronics and many more, are courses that are studied in Computer Science and Engineering and equivalent branches at Bachelor and Master Levels. Usually these subjects consist of several classroom sessions, quizzes, assignments, tests and list goes on. Theoretical concepts are presented in class room are usually uninteresting since its a one way communication. However one can observe that these subjects are more of lectures and less of interaction among the students and there is even lack of laboratory sessions in some of the subjects. Some subjects need high level of understanding for the students such as the concepts of assembly instruction set, how the data moves to different address and virtual imagination to the students becomes difficult and also understanding their