The Context

India can be called as one of the youngest nations in the world having more than 62% of its population in the age group of 15-59 years out of which around 54% are below 25 years of age. It must be taken seriously that one of the immediate actions needed to enhance the quality of higher education is to re-design the higher education curriculum of all the courses in order to teach the students what is relevant in the present modern age.

One of the Vision of the Institution is to offer need-based, Job-oriented Courses of study relevant to the society. And hence it continues to provide quality education to graduates to become employable. One of the prospective Vision for India’s Higher Education is to improve the quality of teaching and learning process, because the education system is affected badly by poor quality teaching, outdated methods of transaction, rigid curricula and pedagogy, lack of accountability and quality assurance. Our Institution is working towards achieving success by overcoming these constraints by providing quality education.

The Practice

The experiential learning is a process of learning through experience and is more specifically defined as “learning through reflection on doing”. The experiential learning enhances the teaching and learning process that makes learning relatable to students. Students can build on what they already know and are provided with opportunities to make connections between new concepts and existing ones, which increases the effectiveness of learning and also helps students to develop and acquire skills like critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, etc.

In 2018, a restructured curriculum was prepared by the Institution, which includes upgradation of pedagogy together with modernizing the training of teachers totally based on a vision. Recently, the Curriculum was strengthened by adding courses like Internship, Professional English, Communicative English, Skill Oriented Course, Professional Courses, etc., which engage students in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills, etc.

The following are the list of few courses introduced in 2018 Regulation related to skill orientations that require experiential learning.

The following are few pedagogical techniques adopted to enhance the skills of the students 

Industry-Academia Collaboration

As part of NEP - 2020, the college has institutionalized several activities under Industry-Academia Collaboration. As part of industry-academia collaboration, many experiential learning practices were also planned and executed that effectively influenced the teaching and learning processes as described in the given below table

Constraints/ Limitation

• Time consuming,

• Intense training to teachers is required,

• Students’ participation is essential for effective implementation,

• Teachers’ involvement is needed in planning and execution, etc.

Evidence of Success

Students coming from various educational backgrounds feel happy with the student-centered pedagogy and skilled based courses, which was evidenced from students’ feedbacks, students’ involvement and their improved pass percentage i.e., 92%.

Majority of the students have authorized that the quality of teaching-learning process in the Institution is very good and on par with the high standards, which was obtained in the students’ satisfaction survey of 2019-2020 about our institute.

The following snaps given below indicate the effective involvement of students in the teaching-learning transactions