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A Case Study:Journey of Student Skill Development Center (SSDC) an Interdisciplinary Platform to Actively Engage Millennial at HITAM


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Research says that the retention span of millennials in class is about 10-15 min [1]. In this paper, the author shares his experience in engaging millennials actively.At HITAM, we introduced the Student Skill Development Centre (SSDC), which is a student-centered approach, combining two different learning methods: Problem-based Learning (PBL) and Interdisciplinary Learning. In SSDC, students work in groups and build open-ended projects. Project Based Learning in SSDC provides students an industrial experience, which makes them comfortable in understanding the real-time problems faced by the industry and helps them to gain experience in solving the issues [4]. So, designing a project becomes easy for the group because the group consists of students from different disciplines.

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Interdisciplinary Learning, Project Based Learning, Student Skill Development Centre.
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Authors

Vinod Kumar Ahuja
Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management affiliated to JNTUH, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Y. Lavanya
Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management affiliated to JNTUH, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Swetha Tirumala
Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management affiliated to JNTUH, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Abstract


Research says that the retention span of millennials in class is about 10-15 min [1]. In this paper, the author shares his experience in engaging millennials actively.At HITAM, we introduced the Student Skill Development Centre (SSDC), which is a student-centered approach, combining two different learning methods: Problem-based Learning (PBL) and Interdisciplinary Learning. In SSDC, students work in groups and build open-ended projects. Project Based Learning in SSDC provides students an industrial experience, which makes them comfortable in understanding the real-time problems faced by the industry and helps them to gain experience in solving the issues [4]. So, designing a project becomes easy for the group because the group consists of students from different disciplines.

Keywords


Interdisciplinary Learning, Project Based Learning, Student Skill Development Centre.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16920/jeet%2F2019%2Fv33i1%2F149025