As an academic, I believe that blended traditional and alternative teaching and learning techniques can enhance students’ learning and thinking. These T&L techniques can avoid the students to become passive learners who cannot give an opinion and share their ideas. Although active learning is a bit challenging to implement and must have cooperation from every student, it proves that students can understand knowledge through it.
The flipped classroom, debates, and video recording are some of the active teaching methods that I used in my class. Alhamdulillah, I am glad to find that my students enjoyed it and they also make all the effort to familiarise themselves with this active-learning pedagogy.
Despite the challenges, classes were successfully conducted with several active T&L activities that had already been outlined in the CI. These activities complied with the SLO stated and facilitated students to complete their assignments.
Instead of that, I also used online teaching tools such as Google Jam board, quizzes, and interactive videos to give an active online learning experience to the students. Besides online teaching tools, I have given them a real-life case study in which students must solve and relate the theory that they have learned before with the real problem given.
Instead of a case discussion, a reflective 5 minutes session has been implemented at the end of my class by asking students to reflect on what they have learned in class and any issues related to it. Each student must give their opinion and this was done via a short 1-3 minute video recording and they need to upload it in the e-learning.
Therefore, I believe that through such active learning activities, I could nurture my student’s thinking skills and their intensity of seeking knowledge. This process would also represent the achievement for each targeted learning outcomes.



