Self-Study: An Active Learning Approach

Key focus of Technical Education system currently is Outcome Based Education (OBE). The main objective of OBE is to equip students with right skills and attitude in order to transform them into potentially excellent Engineers. OBE upholds self-learning, where the faculties facilitate students to achieve specified outcomes. There are multiple ways of implementing OBE. Few of the methods of implementing selfstudy are discussed in this paper, namely Project Based Learning and seminar. Further, Effective planning and assessment of outcomes of self-study is detailed. Students' feedback on introducing self-study component in a course is also presented.