Innovative Teaching

UIT has provided close to quarter of century outstanding service to the nation in the field of higher education in engineering and computer science. With its PEC and NCEAC accredited, NED Affiliated, and HEC recognized programmes, UIT is embarking on a journey to reach the next level of excellence.
UIT aims to not only produce high class engineers and scientists, but professionals and change agents. These change agents apart from being field experts and better citizens of our beloved country, would be ready to tackle the problems that beset our country with leadership, ingenuity, and highest level of moral and ethical values. UIT produces well rounded graduates who not only learn hard skills, but also soft skills.

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Rapid change surrounds us. Our involvement with recently developed technologies is greater than ever. The mobile phone is a recent development, yet it has changed how we live, earn, play and engage with others. As we use these phones, we discover new unmet desires are new technological and business opportunities. Can batteries be made to last longer? Can the brightness be increased so that one is able to see the images on the screen on a bright day? Can we alter the settings to limit which of the many messages (SMS, Facebook, WhatsApp, …..) get through to alert us and the remainder we view at our convenience?
Many of us use gmail or Hotmail. What do we pay for these services? Yet, if they are slow or inoperative, we complain. Gmail, for example, offers suggestions to complete your sentences. MicroSoft Word corrects many grammar and spelling mistakes. Correct spellings and grammar used to be emphasized in schooling yet are now available at negligible costs. Thus, such skills that are increasingly achievable through computation and artificial intelligence will have less valuable in the future.

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These changes pose challenges to traditional education models as they require updating the curricula and the methods of teaching. Globally there are initiatives and activities to keep education relevant. As academics at Usman Institute of Technology, it is incumbent upon us to keep abreast of such developments so that we can bring in current best practices to our teaching. We engage with academic leaders globally to understand the changing landscape of education. We also talk to leading employers and get their feedback of the changing expectations of the workplace.

Based on our learnings, several initiatives are now active at UIT. Several of our faculty members have taken “Active Learning” courses and implemented them. Projects and project-based learning are more common than ever and we see more mature semester projects during our “project days” at the end of the semester.