A fully learner-centered course would focus on the needs, interests, and skills of learners rather than just the content. The teacher would first determine what students can and should learn and how to assess that, then facilitate learning experiences accordingly. While more complex and time-consuming than a content-centered approach, a learner-centered design is worth it because it ensures learning occurs and students achieve desired outcomes, making what is learned more important than what is taught.
A fully learner-centered course would focus on the needs, interests, and skills of learners rather than just the content. The teacher would first determine what students can and should learn and how to assess that, then facilitate learning experiences accordingly. While more complex and time-consuming than a content-centered approach, a learner-centered design is worth it because it ensures learning occurs and students achieve desired outcomes, making what is learned more important than what is taught.
A fully learner-centered course would focus on the needs, interests, and skills of learners rather than just the content. The teacher would first determine what students can and should learn and how to assess that, then facilitate learning experiences accordingly. While more complex and time-consuming than a content-centered approach, a learner-centered design is worth it because it ensures learning occurs and students achieve desired outcomes, making what is learned more important than what is taught.
1. What do you think a fully learner-centered course would be like?
The term "learner-centered" is similar to a product's "user-centered" focus. If a course is learner-centered, it means that when we design our course, we pay close attention to our learners' needs, interests, and skills. In contrast to content- centered course design, in which the teacher creates a list of topics and decides how much time to devote to each, the heart of the learner-centered approach is to determine first what students can and should learn in relation to this course, then how to assess students' performance, and finally how such learning can be facilitated. Learning experience design evolves from content-centered to learner- centered instructional design.
2. A learning-centered approach to course design is complex and time consuming. Do you
think it is worth the trouble? Outcome-based education (OBE) is a learner-centered learning philosophy that focuses on student performance measurement (the outcomes). OBE is not a teaching style or method in and of itself; rather, it is a principle for designing your teaching in such a way that learning occurs and students achieve the desired learning outcomes. As a result, in OBE, "what is learned" is more important than "what is taught."