The Effect of Active Teaching on Quality Learning : Students’ Perspective in an Architectural Science Course at the University of Sharjah

This paper examines the effect of active teaching techniques as a delivery style on quality learning outcomes. It focuses on architectural science courses taught in a nontraditional manner using various active learning techniques, taking the case study of the Building Illumination and Acoustics course delivered in 2019-2020 at the Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Sharjah. Different methods of literature review, case study, and survey were applied using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. A survey of 16 questions was conducted on 64 students of this course to measure their satisfaction levels of implemented active teaching techniques. The results indicate that the students are more motivated and actively engaged with the dynamic learning environment and that the active learning techniques used are efficient in enhancing their ability to understand theoretical concepts more effectively. In conclusion, the delivery style effectively enhances quality learning when novel active techniques are used pedagogically beyond being merely a utilitarian tool to prepare novice architectural engineering students to meet practical demands.