Classrooms and Learning

 My experience tells me that learning happens better when both teachers and

students get creative. A conventional classroom has limits, and combined with

traditional methods of evaluation of students, it results in short-term learning at best,

mostly meant to pass exams or excel at exams.

If learning with impact is the goal, as it should be, a lot of unconventional approaches

to learning are needed. My view is that some kind of action-based-learning works

best, and can be combined with some presentation or other means of feedback from

the facilitator/teacher.

I have experimented with role-plays involving case studies/situations, projects with

some data collection and analysis, simulation based on a computer program, and

making of video content or writing blogs and trying to get readership. Of course, a

few more types of exercises such as writing an email trying to persuade people to

buy something and competitive bidding exercises.