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INNOVATION IN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF LEARNING IN DIGITAL ERA
Authors: Mona Malhotra & Taruna Malhotra
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Today in this competitive world everyone is struggling and working hard to create a new learning
environment. Recently, significant resources have been invested by many countries in order to have
change in their educational systems. Use of technology, major teacher programmes and change in
curriculum at wider level are the efforts for radical changes. The main aim of this transformation is to
provide students with the cognitive and meta-cognitive knowledge and the skills to be competitive in
the 21stCentury. Teaching the text books and making the students understand is not the purpose of
education rather the task is to create innovative thinking environment. No doubt both teachers as well
as students have to face many problems and challenges in creating such an environment and the
major challenge faced by any teacher is to capture the student’s attention and presenting their matter
in such a way to have everlasting impact. For this to happen, innovative ideas that make teaching
learning methods more effective should be implemented. According to Gertner & Manzi, (2012),
“Innovation is the application of an idea or invention, adapted or refined for specific uses or in its
particular contexts.” The purpose behind using these innovative methods is to empower people, to
make governance stronger and to motivate the attempt to achieve the human development goal for the
country. “Innovative teaching involves using innovative methods and teaching learning materials for
the benefit of students.”(Mandula, Meda, & Jain, 2012). The purpose of the paper is to suggest useful
innovative teaching methods which could easily impart knowledge to the students.