Abstract:
Active teaching and learning in a manner that engages industry in students learning
processes is viewed as a solution to the challenge of skills mismatch. Many academic
institutions in the world are therefore shifting from traditional teacher-centrered
learning to this mode of teaching and learning. Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College
(TUDARCo) is one of the higher learning institutions in Tanzania that has remarkable
success in this endeavour. Through the IRIS project TUDARCO has developed and
insitigated an active teaching and learning approach which is a blend of the Tanzanian
and Finnish approaches named the FinTan pedagogy model. This chapter focuses on
the scaling up of this model. It discusses the background of the development of the
model as part of the IRIS project and the scale up processes as part of a subsequent
project called SUSIE in two other universities in Tanzania, Mwenge Catholic University
(MWECAU) and Moshi Cooperative University (MoCU). It also highlights the experiences
and feelings of the stakeholders who used the model.
