Active learning approaches to teach Intellectual Property Rights

Student centered active learning methodology of teaching is proved to be an effective method of teaching the millennial students. Intellectual property is critical to nurturing innovation in engineering domain and hence is a part of the engineering education curriculum. The course on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) was traditionally taught with a teacher centered technique. Through this paper an attempt is made to teach IPR through different active learning techniques and analyze the outcomes. The results include the attainment of Program Outcome (POs) through the Course Outcomes (COs). The comparison of the attainment before and after adopting active learning techniques substantiates that the active learning methodology has catered the students in enhancing their ideas with respect to the nuances of IPR.