AN INNOVATED TEACHING TO MOTIVATE ACTIVE LEARNING-A CASE STUDY IN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE COURSE

In education institutions, most entering college students, with the aid of highly developed digital technology, have developed the intuition that enables them to be active learners.In today's modern society, students and educators are interested in teaching approaches that enable students to learn at their own pace by leveraging their comfort with technology in a setting that is fun, collaborative, applicable and often team-based.It is imperative for educators to develop corresponding new teaching methods that are much more efficient, and effective.Case studies can help students develop analytic and problem solving skills, allowing for exploration of solutions of complex problems, and affords students the opportunity to apply new knowledge and skills.The New York City College of Technology, funded by a NSF grant developed as series of case-studies in STEM fields that can be used in classroom teaching.A trial teaching with a case developed by the author was conducted in Fall 2012 semester and it was found very effective in the learning process.In this paper, the ideology of case-studies, the detailed implementation will be presented as well as an effective analysis will be discussed.