Extreme Pedagogy: An Agile Teaching-Learning Methodology for Engineering Education

Traditional instructor-centered, lecture-based teaching methods in engineering education have been criticized for being too linear, dogmatic, systematic and constraining. This paper proposes 'Extreme Pedagogy', a student-centered teaching-learning conceptual framework to improve quality of engineering education which is built on four core values: students and teachers and their interactions, working knowledge, collaboration with students and responding to change. Extreme Pedagogy derives its philosophy from Extreme Programming, an agile software methodology. Extreme Pedagogy aims at continuous improvement of student learning, keeping students' needs and satisfaction as its focus.