With a development history of more than half century, the learner-centered approach has become new teaching paradigm worldwide. The can produce effective and significant learning focusing on learners’ development, learning, outcomes. This study aimed to determine how increase students’ engagement, improve their English strategies, enhance academic performance in specific EFL...

At the brink of a new millennium, a shift in pedagogy toward a learner-centered approach is emerging, where critical thinking skills are fostered through problembased learning opportunities and innovative approaches to instruction and student work assessment. New media technologies are being effectively used to help achieve such goals in engineering education. This paper describes technology-ai...

Many teachers still use in-class multiple choice exams in their classes, the primary goal of which is to see how much the students have already learned. The assessment strategies we will examine in this paper change the focus from assessing whether students have learned anything to creating assessments which double as learning experiences themselves. Assessments do not have to merely measure wh...

Currently, numerous educators and policymakers are advocating for a move away from “teacher-centered” models of instruction and toward more “learner-centered” and “community-based” models. However, at present the word “community” is at risk of losing its meaning. We have little appreciation and few criteria for distinguishing between a community of learners and a group of students learning coll...

Research in the acquisition of patient interviewing skills by medical students has dealt mostly with the evaluation of the effectiveness of various teaching programs and techniques. The educational approaches (i.e., the tutor-learner relationship and learning atmosphere) have rarely been discussed. These approaches may be grouped into: a) "teacher-centered" (didactic), in which the students are...

U NLIKE DIDACTIC APPROACHES that dominated both lecture and mediated instruction in the past, systems are emerging that are designed to extend the unique inquiry priorities and needs of learners. Student-centered learning environments (SCLEs) provide complimentary activities that enable individuals to address unique learning interests and needs. They invite learner engagement through relevant p...