Content tagged: learning-centered
The Benefits of Making the Shift to Student-Centered Teaching
Article: Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Would you let your students decide when you hold office hours? How about whether projects are worth more points than exams, or vice versa? Would you let your students decide some ... Read full story »
Assessing the Degree of Learner-Centeredness
Article: Friday, August 6th, 2010
Since Barr and Tagg introduced the concept of the instructional versus the learner-centered paradigms in 1995, higher education institutions across the country have adopted the concept in one form or ... Read full story »
Making the Shift from Rhetoric to Performance
Article: Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Discussion of teaching and learning as an academic, scholarly endeavor has become an acceptable conversation on college campuses. A shift is beginning to take place whereby the scholarship of teaching ... Read full story »
Critical Pedagogy Brings New Teaching and Learning Challenges
Article: Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
It’s not always easy to differentiate between critical pedagogy, active learning, and the learner- or learning-centered approaches. Each is predicated on the notion of student engagement and proposes involvement via ... Read full story »
Using the Syllabus to Create an Engaging Classroom Climate
Article: Monday, August 24th, 2009
It’s important at the beginning of a course for students and their instructor to find out about each other. This exchange of information helps to create classroom climates of respect ... Read full story »
Instructional Design: Moving Toward a Less Structure, More Learning-Centered Environment
Article: Friday, July 11th, 2008
Do these differences seem semantic? To Jean Ramsey and Dale Fitzgibbons (reference below) they typify three modes of teaching, each located at a different place on a continuum. In the ... Read full story »
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