INNOVATION IN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF LEARNING IN DIGITAL ERA

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.