The country can progress if latest teaching techniques are promoted among teachers and students, said speakers at a capacity building workshop on enquiry-based learning (EBL) organised by the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) and the British Council on Saturday.
Speaking on the occasion, Tracy Speake of the University of Manchester stressed the need to promote EBL in the country.
She said modern teaching methods were necessary for Pakistan to compete with the rest of the world. Speake said it was important that students participated in classroom debates.
Ruth Grady of the University of Manchester said EBL courses enabled students to put their knowledge to various uses. She said she hoped that the workshop would prove successful in promotion of latest teaching techniques.
Faculty of Social Sciences Dean Iqbal Zafar said the UAF had made efforts to promote massive open online courses (MOOC).
Institute of Agriculture Extension and Rural Development Director Tanvir Ali said the traditional ways of teaching must be replaced with EBL.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2014.