I began my classroom journey as a faculty member in 1975 and how things have changed. Keeping the material relevant is extremely important, but also adapting instructional approaches in a way to blend with the technologies the student learner currently employs to communicate within their social setting.

I am always concerning on real practical mechanical examples on earth plus make a connection with a theoretical lectuers, and this procedure gives an excellent positives results.

Regards

In every semester a new project is developed at the completion of the course in my subject at PG level.

In the process control course; after the 40 minutes lab experiment; the different teams join a corner of the classroom to do all calculations and answer all questions of the lab during the next 40 minutest. The lab report submitted at the end of the class. Before; the students used to submit the lab report after one week.

In petroleum refining course; a lab experiment was combined with a project. That means the data needed to do the calculation of the project are taken directly designed lab experiment conducted by the students. Before ; the data were taken from literature.

In my field, criminal justice, things are always changing. There are new laws, new technologies, new drugs of abuse, new threats or gangs. Keeping the students involved in what is happening now and where things might be going is most important. However, you can not ignore the basics. I like to involve my students in research projects like virtual academic poster competitions with other universities. It keeps them sharp and these can be conducted at little or no cost.

Total simplicity and let a student resume my course in the last minutes. It gives a lot of positivity between the students.

@ Dr. Emad Kamil Hussein

Dr. Mahesh Kumar

Dr. Zin Eddine Dadach

Prof. Gregg W. Etter

Dr. Abderrahmane Khechekhouche

Thank you all for your prompt and laudable answers to my question. The feedback I received will be very useful. Thank you once more.

Regards,

Modestus

I think it is important for me to also share the curricular changes I have introduced - Being that I currently teach in a university specialized in petroleum studies, I constantly introduce innovations and curricular changes to the courses I teach in order to meet the dynamic needs of the petroleum industry. The innovations/ curricular changes I have introduced in the courses I teach include (i) Student to lecturer interaction (ii) Student to student interaction (iii) Paradigm shift from the use of local computing to global computing techniques. For instance, the university curriculum of the course ‘Operations Research and Modeling’ I currently teach only addressed traditional operations research techniques without consideration for global techniques. Thus, I introduced mini projects that offer students opportunity to visit an industry to identify problems, apply scientific techniques and creative algorithms to proffer robust solution procedure for such problems and present findings in class for open interaction. This I believe is important because the employability of university graduates depends on high technical and scientific knowledge, practical hands- on experience and excellent soft computing skills.

Covering a large curriculum contents over a limited face to face lecture time, the challenges are getting through to the participants just in a single or double mentions of terms covered under rote learning. Applying discovery learning through elearn helped. A deeper concept that need to be understood will requires more effort to ensure quick & effective understanding. Causal learning approach using analogical model with physical case application seem to also help. Feedbacks would provide good indication of its effectiveness especially from the learning outcome achievements.

Thank you for your laudable response A.M. Bardai.

Regards, MO

You are most welcomed.

I am inprogress conducting further research in this area. keep intouch.

Thank you so much. I will surely keep in touch.

Regards, MO

I usually use virtual or real case studies in order to let students acquire and discover knowledge this help deep understanding and at the same time help develop of critical and analytical thinking ,this proved to be very helpful as me and my students feedback and practical experience and work results after graduation.

Interesting comments so far on teaching innovations or curricular changes . I hope to read more more...

I began my classroom journey as a faculty member in 1975 and how things have changed. Keeping the material relevant is extremely important, but also adapting instructional approaches in a way to blend with the technologies the student learner currently employs to communicate within their social setting.

Attempting to incorporate the technologies they use in class to enhance learning.

Thank you so much for your helpful comment.

Regards MO

Thank you so much Prof. David McElreath. The information you have shared is very interesting and useful.

Regards, MO.

Thank you so much Barbara Rose Russo. Glad to know you use latest technologies to enhance learning in class.

Regards, MO.

This is an article from SoftChalk on incorporating digital learning into the on-line classroom. https://blog.softchalk.com/dynamic-education-and-digital-tools?utm_campaign=General&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=63903301&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--qlgr2RROB7m8sgqSuEetpWQazXUoPs_5G2K7_IGq0cGvirRU8eYzsKfNhR-ibL4iBnknOEJ20VGGtN5KL5qVz5J_pgw&_hsmi=63903301

Thank you so much Prof. G. W. Etter

Based on the study, and as per the requirement of the student, the books are changed without modifying the syllabus and the curriculum.

My teaching philosophy is based on three pillars—Socrates, John Dewey and Albert Bandura. I am committed promoting to active student engagement in and out of the classroom. I believe that instructors should lecture far less and ask more questions with follow-ups. Careful listening should replace the sage on the stage. When speaking, we should be more of a coach, cheerleader and role model for a range of behaviors—inquiry, analysis, positive feedback and considered criticism.

I believe that while the student may not have the answer within, s/he can construct it with coaching and encouragement. When s/he finds it, it becomes their property and not something temporarily borrowed from me or the text or instructor.

Further, I believe that opportunities to develop and refine soft skills should be embedded in most, if not all, learning activities. Recognizing that learning styles are varied, learning opportunities should be delivered in a variety of forms—case studies, debates, field trips, one-on-one interviews, simulations, team and individual projects.

Aggregate student learning, value-added, should be assessed in every course and at frequent intervals. That information used to assist the students and instructor in the pursuit of continuous improvement.

Thank you all for sharing your teaching experiences, innovations and curricular changes introduced in your area of expertise and courses of interest. I will wait for more answers...

Regards,

Modestus

With the increase in misconceptions in chemistry, loss of interest in the subject chemistry and decrease in achievement....

I am of the opinion that this negative trend calls for a serious action in Nigeria.

In line with the above, i am proposing a change in the Curricular... As an alternative I am currently working on "INDIGENIZATION OF CHEMISTRY".....

knowing fully well that elements are universal, save for the exception that particular elements are found in different climes and identified as such, Chemistry is generally Universal...However, concepts in chemistry can be indigenized....Concepts are the building blocks of theories and laws.. if we indigenize these concepts in chemistry, i believe the issue of misconceptions will be reduced which will help to increase interest and achievement. thanks

Sir T.S. Appi (Indigenization of chemistry)...

My fields of teaching are Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour. I introduced cases, critical incidents, skill builders, and classic film analyses. Well-known internationally developed applications and applications developed by myself are being used. Another strategy is that I teach for 30 minutes and then use an application. Then I teach for another 30 minutes followed by an application. Previously I used role plays and nowadays it is hardly used as the number of the students in the class has increased significantly.

Prof. H. H. D. N. P Opatha,

Thank you so much for sharing your teaching experience and innovation in your field of interest. The information you have supply is very useful to me.

Regards, MOO.

Dear Master Taritogu Stephen Appi my respected colleague. Thank you so much for sharing your teaching and research innovation. The information you have just shared is very useful.

Regards, MO.

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As we have seen both the era; childhood of technology and in the present epoch when technology is in its adulthood and penetrated in each and every field. Now-a-days technology has taken place of black board and chalk.

We need to adapt the technological breach and the techno savvy students. Students are not willing to write anything; they need soft copies of it. They click photos of all things and obviously we need to accept it.

Due to internet, students are also willing to learn new things by thinking out of the box. Bachelors students are also involved in the research and we need to motivate them .

Thank you so much for your contribution Saif Hosam.

Regards, MO.

Thank you very much Prof. Nikisha Jariwala. It has become very obvious that technology has exceeded our humanity. Technology has taken taken over everything. Yesterday it was industry 4.0, today it is industry 5.0 and IoT. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Your response is very useful.

Regards, MO.

as a teacher educator, I did my best to introduce innovative techniques of language teaching in my teacher training course. I allow them to discuss these methodologies considering the socio-cultural context of my country with limitations and opportunities. they have some conferences highlighting their applicability to the specific context. best

As a teacher, I have been teaching my students a lot of courses related to General Linguistics and its interdisciplinary subfields. I have also participated in collaboration with a team of university teachers in modifying the syllabus and textsbooks of the English Departments of the Colleges colleges of Education, Sultanate of Oman. I have also tried to be friendly with all my students and colleagues in my teaching experience which lasted for over forty years. In teaching my students, I have been so proud and enthusiastic that I apply the modern technology in most of the courses I am teaching.

I am trying to implement blended learning in my classrooms.

Industrial Innovation/Application in Mechanical Engineering incorporated for better understanding and project work by undergraduate students in FEM course

Thank you so much Hazim Al Dilaimy, Pankaj Tomar, Abdullah Noori, Farangis Shahidzade. There is a lot to learn from the information you have all provided. Regards, MO.

Adding more practical aspects in the curriculum and integrating technology in the classroom to make it relevant for the students.

It has been my interest in trying to get my student to be potentialy be more creative, which lead to innoavative ability at work place. Based on Amabile, to be creative a person need to be good With creative thinking skill, ideation ability & multifacet operation knowledge. In my attempt to enhance creative potential, i ussually measure their potential at entry level & post exit level using the divergent test method.

In teaching i normally begin with getting them to do problem analysis task, provoke them with questions like what it is now? what it should be then? until they are able to correctly define the problem statement. at this stage they already required to have multifacet knowledge in the processes involve in the situations, which they have to acquire when in this process. This to me is the most critical support to their learning.

the next steps i would ussually ask them to do is to conduct causal analysis to idsntify the possible causes of theproblem & then further to solutioning analysis. I like to recommend them to use the fishbone diagram as the tools for this 2 stages.

Doing these, through my observation, their divergent test score will increase. What i am yet to do is to follow up their progress at the industry where there are employed, see whether the higher potential creativity score (divergent test) have a direct correllation to their innovativeness scores.

We can work together here to look into the above correllation, if you are interested.

Thank you for your valuable comments - Ahmad Maulan Bardai and Kaukab Abid Azhar

In my field, we tried to bring the touch of the industry and bridge the missing gap between the academics and industry by introducing relevant courses to the existing curriculum to help the students