Learner-centered software design (LCSD) guides the design of tasks, tools, and interfaces in order to support the unique needs of learners: growth, diversity and motivation. This paper presents a framework for LCSD and describes a case study of its application to the ScienceWare Model-It, a learner-centered tool to support scientific modeling and simulation. The complex task of constructing and...

This study investigated the effect of applying the dynamic system theory (DST) and cognitive linguistics (CL) insights into grammar instruction on EFL learners’ learning of English prepositions and learner autonomy. Sixty Iranian EFL learners at the lower-intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 1 experimental and 1 control group. The 2 groups filled out an autonomy ...

Personalized learning (PL) has been internationally promoted as a future direction of educational reform efforts. While there is growing evidence PL enhancing outcomes, teachers reported having difficulty envisioning in practice. This national survey study investigated how practiced K-12 learner-centered schools the U.S. to inform educators teachers’ practice and identify gaps between their res...

Learner-centered learning can be defined as an approach to learning in which learners choose the topic to study and learning tasks. Because of available choices, learners can find it difficult to make a decision about which of the topics/tasks would be more appropriate for them. Identifying other learners with similar characteristics and then considering the tasks that worked well, makes it pos...

Learner-centered design (LCD) is an evolving design approach for designing tools that support learners trying to engage in and understand complex work practices in which they are novices. Learner-centered design focuses on developing tools that incorporate support (or “scaffolding”) to support the novice in seeing and doing complex, unknown work so that the learner can begin developing an under...

Abstract One-on-one tutoring is the most effective teaching arrangement. Most schools and families, however, cannot afford to provide each child with a tutor. Peer in classrooms, more feasible scalable learning arrangement, increases for both tutors tutees, but peer tutors’ efficacy often limited by their didactic disempowering approaches. Two interventions distinctly different designs were dev...

This paper discusses learner-centered approaches and evaluation in English language teaching and learning materials design. Based on the researches in this field, a framework is developed for the evaluation of learner-centered components contained in the materials. Thereafter, we apply the criteria to the assessment of two major English textbooks College English (1991) and Experiencing English ...