The principles and processes would also be learnt through discussions and questions, but mainly the reliance was on learning by doing. This approach worked till the increasing amount of knowledge and industrialisation made it difficult to scale and new methods of learning replaced it. From the hands-on approach to learning, there was a shift to mass learning through the employment of the one-to-many approach using lectures and written knowledge. The future of engineering education needs to involve both these components in proportion — the hands-on approach of the past combined with the theoretical approach of the present. Value additionWe see technology enabling every aspect of our lives and the same will happen to education in the future.

Source: The Hindu May 29, 2021 07:23 UTC