Traditional instructor-centered, lecture-based teaching methods in engineering education have bee... more Traditional instructor-centered, lecture-based teaching methods in engineering education have been criticized for being too linear, dogmatic, systematic and constraining. This paper proposes 'Extreme Pedagogy', a student-centered teaching-learning conceptual framework to improve quality of engineering education which is built on four core values: students and teachers and their interactions, working knowledge, collaboration with students and responding to change. Extreme Pedagogy derives its philosophy from Extreme Programming, an agile software methodology. Extreme Pedagogy aims at continuous improvement of student learning, keeping students' needs and satisfaction as its focus.
Engineering education is in immediate need of reforms. Skill deficiency among engineering graduat... more Engineering education is in immediate need of reforms. Skill deficiency among engineering graduates is one of the main concerns of the industries today. Educational research studies showing serious deficiencies in traditional teaching methods have all provoked calls for changes in how engineering curricula are designed, delivered, and assessed. This paper proposes a novel educational framework, ‘Extreme Pedagogy’ to improve quality of engineering education. Extreme Pedagogy derives its philosophy from Extreme Programming, an agile software methodology. Extreme Pedagogy aims at continuous improvement of student learning, keeping students’ needs and satisfaction as its focus.
A flipped classroom is a teaching-learning environment in which students self-learn content by wa... more A flipped classroom is a teaching-learning environment in which students self-learn content by watching video lectures outside of the classroom and engage in learner-centered activities in the classroom with the guidance of an instructor. Earlier research into programming education has shown that students in the traditional classroom find introductory programming courses hard. This experimental study compared the effectiveness of a flipped classroom (experimental group, N=48) with a traditional classroom (control group, N=52) in two areas: 1. programming self-efficacy; and 2. academic performance. The results show that the students in the flipped classroom increased programming self-efficacy and achieved higher grades.
Traditional instructor-centered, lecture-based teaching methods in engineering education have bee... more Traditional instructor-centered, lecture-based teaching methods in engineering education have been criticized for being too linear, dogmatic, systematic and constraining. This paper proposes ‘Extreme Pedagogy’, a student-centered teaching-learning conceptual framework to improve quality of engineering education which is built on four core values: students and teachers and their interactions, working knowledge, collaboration with students and responding to change. Extreme Pedagogy derives its philosophy from Extreme Programming, an agile software methodology. Extreme Pedagogy aims at continuous improvement of student learning, keeping students’ needs and satisfaction as its focus.
Students of the millennial generation, born in the late twentieth century, have been raised in an... more Students of the millennial generation, born in the late twentieth century, have been raised in an environment of technology, entertainment, information and social connections. Unlike their predecessors in the previous generation, they have different educational expectations. The differences these students bring to the classroom are a challenge and also an opportunity for the instructors to provide useful learning experiences to these students. Traditional pedagogy, which is characterized by lecture-styled teaching seems to be inappropriate to respond to the needs and characteristics of the millennials. This paper discusses the unique characteristics of the millennial students, limitations of the traditional pedagogy to serve the millennials and proposes a novel pedagogy called, Extreme Pedagogy as an alternative to engage effectively today’s students in the engineering classroom.
— Educators in the recent past have been innovating new methods of teaching-learning to enhance q... more — Educators in the recent past have been innovating new methods of teaching-learning to enhance quality of higher education. Extreme Teaching-Learning paradigm (XTLP) (or Extreme Pedagogy) is a novel student-centered pedagogy designed by the authors for higher education to increase learning outcomes. XTLP is an agile educational framework that derives its philosophy from Extreme Programming (XP), an agile software developmental methodology. As opposed to the traditional paradigm in which, the course structure is rigid, assessment of learning is overemphasized , learning is individualistic and there is limited scope for faculty-student interactions, the XTLP framework, aims at continuous enhancement of student performance by addressing the limitations of traditional teacher-centered pedagogy. This paper describes the XTLP, a conceptual framework with its characteristics, practices, values and discusses its applicability in the higher education.
Traditional instructor-centered, lecture-based teaching methods in engineering education have bee... more Traditional instructor-centered, lecture-based teaching methods in engineering education have been criticized for being too linear, dogmatic, systematic and constraining. This paper proposes 'Extreme Pedagogy', a student-centered teaching-learning conceptual framework to improve quality of engineering education which is built on four core values: students and teachers and their interactions, working knowledge, collaboration with students and responding to change. Extreme Pedagogy derives its philosophy from Extreme Programming, an agile software methodology. Extreme Pedagogy aims at continuous improvement of student learning, keeping students' needs and satisfaction as its focus.
Engineering education is in immediate need of reforms. Skill deficiency among engineering graduat... more Engineering education is in immediate need of reforms. Skill deficiency among engineering graduates is one of the main concerns of the industries today. Educational research studies showing serious deficiencies in traditional teaching methods have all provoked calls for changes in how engineering curricula are designed, delivered, and assessed. This paper proposes a novel educational framework, ‘Extreme Pedagogy’ to improve quality of engineering education. Extreme Pedagogy derives its philosophy from Extreme Programming, an agile software methodology. Extreme Pedagogy aims at continuous improvement of student learning, keeping students’ needs and satisfaction as its focus.
A flipped classroom is a teaching-learning environment in which students self-learn content by wa... more A flipped classroom is a teaching-learning environment in which students self-learn content by watching video lectures outside of the classroom and engage in learner-centered activities in the classroom with the guidance of an instructor. Earlier research into programming education has shown that students in the traditional classroom find introductory programming courses hard. This experimental study compared the effectiveness of a flipped classroom (experimental group, N=48) with a traditional classroom (control group, N=52) in two areas: 1. programming self-efficacy; and 2. academic performance. The results show that the students in the flipped classroom increased programming self-efficacy and achieved higher grades.
Traditional instructor-centered, lecture-based teaching methods in engineering education have bee... more Traditional instructor-centered, lecture-based teaching methods in engineering education have been criticized for being too linear, dogmatic, systematic and constraining. This paper proposes ‘Extreme Pedagogy’, a student-centered teaching-learning conceptual framework to improve quality of engineering education which is built on four core values: students and teachers and their interactions, working knowledge, collaboration with students and responding to change. Extreme Pedagogy derives its philosophy from Extreme Programming, an agile software methodology. Extreme Pedagogy aims at continuous improvement of student learning, keeping students’ needs and satisfaction as its focus.
Students of the millennial generation, born in the late twentieth century, have been raised in an... more Students of the millennial generation, born in the late twentieth century, have been raised in an environment of technology, entertainment, information and social connections. Unlike their predecessors in the previous generation, they have different educational expectations. The differences these students bring to the classroom are a challenge and also an opportunity for the instructors to provide useful learning experiences to these students. Traditional pedagogy, which is characterized by lecture-styled teaching seems to be inappropriate to respond to the needs and characteristics of the millennials. This paper discusses the unique characteristics of the millennial students, limitations of the traditional pedagogy to serve the millennials and proposes a novel pedagogy called, Extreme Pedagogy as an alternative to engage effectively today’s students in the engineering classroom.
— Educators in the recent past have been innovating new methods of teaching-learning to enhance q... more — Educators in the recent past have been innovating new methods of teaching-learning to enhance quality of higher education. Extreme Teaching-Learning paradigm (XTLP) (or Extreme Pedagogy) is a novel student-centered pedagogy designed by the authors for higher education to increase learning outcomes. XTLP is an agile educational framework that derives its philosophy from Extreme Programming (XP), an agile software developmental methodology. As opposed to the traditional paradigm in which, the course structure is rigid, assessment of learning is overemphasized , learning is individualistic and there is limited scope for faculty-student interactions, the XTLP framework, aims at continuous enhancement of student performance by addressing the limitations of traditional teacher-centered pedagogy. This paper describes the XTLP, a conceptual framework with its characteristics, practices, values and discusses its applicability in the higher education.
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