Milan, an innovative environment needs to cater not only for the learning needs of students but also the competencies, capabilities, preferences and skills sets of all its beneficiaries (students and teachers alike). It also needs to be agile (i.e. having the capacity to adapt at short or, sometimes no notice). Such an environment is co-created between learners, tutors and the learning community. Interesting...
In line with the principle that innovative methods of creating new solutions contribute significantly to the creation of further innovations, so to create an innovative learning environment, it may be a good solution to use innovative teaching methods using ICT, Internet and Industry 4.0 innovations to create and improve the process environment didactic referred to as Education 4.0. In addition to the use of new technologies in the didactic process, it is also important to use didactic methods based on, for example, educational games activating pupils and students to create creative and innovative solutions, activating critical thinking, creating unconventional solutions, improving teamwork and developing skills and skills activating the development of individual talents and abilities etc.
To create an innovative learning environment you need to start with the history of the subject matter, the challenges that resulted to the subject matter as solution, the efficiency of the subject matter and allow the students to think on deficiency of the solution and asses their thought.
To kindle innovative intent, organizations need to stop counting on people succeeding despite the odds and instead shift the odds. There are three inseparable and mutually reinforcing ways to take innovation seriously: they pertain to values, resources, and processes. The first perspective admits that, barring the odd maverick, personnel will not innovate without license: an innovative culture needs pro-innovation governance and support from the top to make sure ideas take carriage. The second agrees that, because a resource is something from which an organization gains profit, assigning precisely that will put innovation at the heart of strategy and equip it. The third declares that, since a business process begins with a mission objective and ends with its achievement, endowing an organization with management, operational, and supporting processes that improve knowledge brokering of ideas from generation to selection, implementation, and diffusion will serve the goal of innovation.
Hi Milan first and foremost according to me we should create an interest in the way they learn and make them participate in it. Once we make them participate , the environment itself becomes conducive for accepting new things.... Innovative ways could be from their end too... There are many ways but how we create depends on the target audience... Depending on that our practice should vary. Thank you
To create an innovating learning enviornment in class , one needs to focus on student engagement and development. If that is the focus of a teacher , it automatically makes it student - centric. A student is always looking for something new which motivates the teacher to identify and design new teaching - learning methods and techniques. I usually design different class activities for a particular class based on the subject that i have to deal with and various aspects of student mix in that batch.
The other perspective is to bring innovative thinking in students for a particular subject or discipline. This is challenging and needs a lot of practice and training for teachers and acceptance by students,teachers and authorities. It needs brainstorming exercises to decide the ways in which students can be made to think creatively and work on projects that promote their creative ideas.
I have to say that I have been extremely disappointed in the response of academic institutions to the COVID19 crisis. Clearly, here was an opportunity to re-think how we teach and how we can better engage students, And yet, as far as I can tell, we still adhere to the classic academic calendar (organized around semesters that allow students the summer off so they can work on their family farms---they way they did 200 years ago!) . Lectures are given at established times. and every attempt is made to follow the system that was in place before the crisis. They seem to think that the existing system perfect, and we have to re-create this as closely as possible for a remote learning experience.
How sad.
Why not take this opportunity to create new and better ways of teaching?
I have changed the way I teach my classes. I record all of my lectures, and offer them to the students at the beginning of the semester. I then ask each of the students to submit three questions to me, based on the lecture, that we can discuss in a chat room or zoom conference.
The students cannot see the chat room or participate in the conference until they have submitted their questions. This means that I get a much better input on what the students are thinking than in a traditional lecture/class. In the traditional setting, that aggressive student asks the most questions. In this new setting each student gets equal attention--and I get a much better idea of what the whole class is thinking--as well as what I may not have covered successfully.
And if a student wants to jump ahead, listen to more of the lectures, read more of the material, etc, that's fine. So is listening to the lectures twice. Or listening to them at six a.m....if that is what works best for the student, then I am all for it. Each student can learn and proceed at a pace and system that works best for that student. The only common criteria is the work they submit via exams and papers.
And, of course, the students still work on group projects together, albeit remotely.
It's amazing to me how we force students into what is convenient for us as teachers....and then complain that we don't get so much student involvement and interaction...
Gentle researchers I share a little pre-print technical report about the possible evolution of post COVID19 school. I hope this is useful for this topic. Have a nice week. --sv-- Technical Report Post-COVID19 pandemic school ecosystem: AR/VR classrooms as ...