Rethinking Teaching Practices for Signal Processing Education

There are three fundamental components of teaching a course: course content plan, delivery, and assessment. While teaching methodologies have evolved vis-a`-vis all the above components, signal processing domain has itself evolved significantly over the past few years. It would not be wrong to say that the signal processing domain has redefined itself in the past few years and has also evolved rapidly creating a need to devise innovative teaching practices. Learning habits of students have also become diverse and are considerably different compared to those of students of the late 20th century. In this paper, we present the changing landscape of signal processing theory and discuss some of the teaching practices that may prove more helpful in this fast-changing era of technology.