Nurturing Innovative and Creativity Through Open Ended Laboratory: JKKP Experience

Innovative approaches that require active involvement of the students in the learning activities are necessary to ensure the targeted learning outcomes are achieved. An open ended laboratory (OEL) assignment is introduced as part of the effort to provide suitable learning platform. This paper describes the implementation of the OEL and its impact on the overall students learning experience. They are graded based on the originality, creativity and innovation of their laboratory assignment as well as presentation of results and discussion. Initially we found the students faced some difficulties because they were not familiar with such laboratory assignment. Marks for innovation and creativity in the OEL assignments were found to be more than 50%, indicating that students innovative and creativity were nurtured during this assignment.