Current Innovative Instructional Methods and Technologies for Quality Tertiary Education.

Abstract

This paper discusses education, curriculum issues, evidences of declining performance of students in the first section. Facilitating changes and fostering a new image call for a new approach which emphasises new teaching and learning methods, new technologies and technological applications to meet the multiple challenges of the 21st century are also discussed. The next section introduces current technological innovations in teaching and learning that have been shown to be fruitful, effective and are fast gaining ground. The psychological and epistemological foundations underlying the methods are presented. The collaborative roles of the teacher, student, university, professionals are given pre-eminence in the concluding section of the paper.