Teaching Approaches Encouraging Autonomous Learning

This paper introduces three innovative teaching methods that encourage self-learning and self-evaluation: an original approach using recorded lessons; a new type of multiple-choice questions with embedded interactive software which offers visual applications to help answer; a method to make students more interested and involved in their training. For each method, the context and addressed pedagogical issue are described emphasizing strengths and weaknesses. The proposed approaches have been introduced for signal processing courses but they can be applied in any other fields.Section II introduces in more details the context in which the SP teaching methods have been implemented. The remainder of this paper describes the three new proposed approaches. Section 3 presents an original method and its purpose using recorded lessons. Section 4 describes a new type of MCQ (Multiple-Choice Questions) integrating an interactive software which allows visual applications to help answer. Section 5 proposes an approach to make students more involved in their training and even becoming teachers themselves. For each method, the context and addressed pedagogical issue are described emphasizing strengths and weaknesses. Conclusion is given in section 6.