COLLABORATING FORMAL AND INFORMAL ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC EDUCATION FOR EFFECTIVE SKILL ACQUISITION

Abstract

As times change, so the educational needs evolve and the ways to addressing issues change. The educational needs of the students and the society at large could only be attained through trending and evolving models. The conventional educational systems for years now have not helped matters in making the electrical/electronic education students acquire the requisite skills. These therefore, call for the change of the trajectories, through some educational reforms. The study took some descriptive investigations into the causes of the lack of proficient skills by the electrical/electronic education students, and ways out of these. The researcher is of the opinion that interfacing formal and informal learning/education systems will be the solutions to solving some of these nagging problems. In doing so, the study investigated the matter by surveying how curriculum adjustment, project based learning methods, hackathon ideals, flexible assessment learning methods, interdisciplinary engagement models, peer learning methods and continuous learning designs would enhance electrical/electronic education students attain proficiency in skill acquisition. Thereafter, conclusions were taken and recommendations for further investigations were proffered by the author.