CENTURY LEARNING FOR ENGAGING MILLENNIALS WORKSHOP : PART 1 – ACTIVE LEARNING @ D02, SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, UTM (25-26 February 2020)
Alhamdulillah, just finished conducting this workshop successfully with Prof. Khairiyah and Dr. Syed Helmi.
Every workshop is interesting, so was this one. The participants came from various engineering and non-engineering school in UTM. The participants consisted of numerous UTM big shots (several professors, some associate professors, a number of administrators and a bunch of senior lecturers). This workshop I perceived as one of the most challenging ones and I will make my own reflection based on my interesting experience in this workshop. The reflection will be for me, the organize and us the trainers.
Love knowing new people, new friends…
Unlike last week’s Active Learning Workshop at the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, I don’t know many of the participants because we haven’t met, although we are all family under UTM. But after these 2 days, I got to know many new people and friends, which is just amazing!
Solidifying my knowledge and skills…
I have joined several Active Learning workshop before and have been assisting several Active Learning workshop as facilitators previously. Attending just 1 or 2 workshops I must admit NOT sufficient to ensure that I have fully grasp the knowledge and totally comprehended the transfered information. Even I attended the third time, there seems plenty that I absorbed.
This in a simpler way implies that I absorbed 40% on the 1st workshop, 50% in the 2nd workshop, 60% in the 3rd workshop and so on. Now that I am co-handling the workshop I am still learning and growing along the way. I will reach the point of 90% soon and it will remain 90%. Why? Because every workshop is unique, the participants are unique, the process could be unique and the situation is unique, which will be the sort of room for more learning for me.
Love helping and sharing others…
It’s awesome to help, assist, guide, explain, share the information and knowledge with the participants. You can see it, realized it, feel it when they understand, cooperate and become so enthusiastic and energetic during the practical sessions. And when at the end a participant asked when will be the next Active Learning workshop be held… (bcoz they want to repeat the workshop again), we felt Alhamdulillah grateful. Because our efforts for the past 2 days managed to trigger something positive within them and they realized the importance and how precious the knowledge is.
Spreading Student-Centered Learning (SCL)
Ultimately the main objective is to promote the SCL concept to engineering educators simply because it is proven a very powerful method of teaching engineering students (compared to Teacher-Centered Learning). So if you haven’t join this AL workshop, wait no longer, contact us at the Centre for Engineering Education (CEE), UTM.
