Student Learning Improvement using Collaborative Presentations and Knowledge Sharing

Academic institutions hold the key responsibility for developing knowledge and skills to produce responsible and qualified engineering graduates. A lot of research has already been done regarding the importance of active learning techniques for engineering education. Active learning techniques help both teachers and students in many ways. Learning by teaching method encourages students to take the role of teacher to enrich their learning experience. This paper addresses the implementation of outcome-based education with Learning by presentation tactics and creating a databank of related subjects for student reference. This method improves a student’s communication skills, presentation skills, confidence level and thinking ability. Students were asked to study assigned topics and prepare a detailed presentation. Each student will teach the assigned topic to the whole class and should clear the doubts about the topic asked by peers. All the presentations are well arranged according to the topic and application. The whole bunch of presentations are returned to all the students for their reference and study when they face doubts or difficulties. Students were enthusiastic regarding their topic and presentations. There was healthy competition, and everyone was working hard to prove themselves. Two internal assessment modules are implemented in the same class which are compared using statistical methods. The results were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software and show that the method assists students learning and understanding students’ skills and performance.