Taken together, they transform the nature of learning, the instructors' role, and the learners' evolution towards self-directed learning.
Furthermore, the course activities were completely student centered: The students were empowered to take the lead in the process of generating ideas and formulating the research projects, whereas the instructors' role was to be a facilitator and learned peer, offering discussion, constructive feedback, and critical advice but never imposing their ideas or point of view.
Learning theories specify students and instructors roles in the learning process (Jonassen et al., 1995).
Instructors role-played an encounter between a doctor and a Latino patient with newly diagnosed diabetes which was critiqued by the learners.
Of course, the diverse factors that determine the quality of education, such as the particular educational methods used, the course content, the abilities and knowledge of the instructors, role-models, and the personal features and motivations of students, are all potential sources of variation.
"I think it put Kevin in the instructor role, which he never was in," his mother said.
The instructor role correlates with the demand for abstract learning concepts.
The analysis produced recurring images categorized into 18 themes, including access, motivation, curriculum, instructor role, authentic experiences, student-centered learning, gamification, induction training, and contextual learning.
Lane and Parker, for instance, approved industry leaves that allowed instructors to take a leave of absence from their instructor role to go back to work in the field for a limited time.
Comparing the study of Urquiza-Fuentes and Velázquez-Iturbide (2013) with our study, we found in the former study, students were given the intervention in self-study context with no instructor role.
CSCL can add an instructor role to the learner-centered model.
