Description

Present day classroom practices can benefit from the use of new technologies and teaching methodologies. Using inquiry-based learning and knowledge-based techniques in classroom situations, the paper relates the experiments conducted over two semesters at the Singapore Maritime Academy. In the experiments, the lectures were replaced with student activities, which resulted in engagement of students with the content. Constructivist methods were used to develop knowledge-based artefacts, which could be reused and further refined through future classroom processes. Techniques used to capture student activities using software suit CmapTools are also described in detail. [Singapore Polytechnic Journal of Teaching Practice 2006]