JUST-IN-TIME APPROACH: THEORETICAL BASIS AND OUTCOMES

JUST-IN-TIME APPROACH: THEORETICAL BASIS AND OUTCOMES

Just-in-time approach is the need of the hour with its novel employment of hi tech and modern cyber space resources to revolutionize the arena of learning and education. It employs assignment of series based conceptual warm ups or puzzles like exercises that the students completes and submits prior to the actual class. The problem solving framework works for relatable questionnaire and invokes thought and conception related to the topic and hence results in a more focused and productive session.

It was first of all invented to overcome the tricky physics at university level in around 1990s and has gathered popularity since then due to its very effective results. That is the results it is being widely employed and implemented at diversified levels of education to develop and promote cognitive learning that would be actually a better and less laboring approach compared to the mundane conventional customary class room teaching.

It is very useful in High schools and college level as the pupils are well exposed and more than comfortable with accessing web space and resources for the submission of relatable exercises and this is easier to get involved in considering the fact that they deal with the technology used in the novel approach on a customary basis. It is not only more hassle free but also save s a lot of time which would have been otherwise wasted going around covering topics which the students have now mastered on their own.

It not only makes use of the technical and cognitive part of the brain but also encourages the pupil in a very enthusiastic and positive manner considering the fact that it gives them a feeling of special treatment and there is hardly any retarding competition to worry about and the students are pushed forward to excel at their own particular and personal levels. Reference has been provided by Novak, GN, Patterson, ET, Gavrin, A, and Christian, W (1999), Just-in-Time Teaching: Blending active Learning and Web Technology, Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.  ISBN 0-13-085034-9

It brings about a major conceptual and visionary and radical amendment in the education system which is but the need of the hour. Proper usage and implementation of suggestive warm ups and questionnaires only guides and motivates the pupils towards thinking in a more efficient and focused yet conceptual manner developing their overall approach towards problem solving. This approach clarifies with readdressing several misconceptions and taboos related to basic fields of physic, chemistry and biology. E.g. Camp, ME., Middendorf, J and Sullivan, CS (2010), “Using Just-in-Time Teaching to Motivate Student Learning” in Just-in-Time Teaching: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy, Simkins S, and Maier M (Eds.), Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.  ISBN 978-1-57922-293-2