Dr. Barkley's intention is to encourage educators to move from the traditional mode ("lecturing" while "students listen," followed by "testing") to a more dynamic, learning-centered approach in the classroom.
These sessions were implemented using a variety of active learning strategies to expose participants to innovative adult learning-centered approaches for enhancing learning and instruction in medical education.
We propose a learning-centered participatory approach that links land management assessment and knowledge exchange and integrates science-based data and stakeholder perspectives on both biophysical and socio-economic attributes.
For example, Kember and Kwan (2000) argue that in general, university lecturers tend to adopt either content- or learning-centered approaches to teaching (the former reflecting a focus on the content or material to be taught, the latter focusing on the learning of their students).
Growing student cohorts, rapid introduction of technology-based teaching methods and a shift from a teaching- to a learning-centered education all influence the environment of the students.
Use these ideas and decisions to come up with a course plan and a learning-centered syllabus for your course.
SMILE is a learning-centered (Weimer, 2002; Blumberg, 2009) innovation implemented in the second semester of a two-semester general biology course.
He leads a diverse, learning-centered institution and is a graduate of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government.
Instead of bridging preexisting research domains a new learning-centered domain could be opened: a field of mind, brain, and education, or, alternatively, of educational psychology, or even a new science of learning.
Her approach to teaching is learning-centered, rather than teaching-centered, so she emphasizes experiential learning.
