 Contact - Volume 7, Issue 2 September 2010 - Student-centred learning - how do I make it work? In this issue we look at student-centred learning - where the focus in class becomes how students learn the material rather than on how instructors teach the material. There are a number of different ways to incorporate more active learning techniques into classrooms, such as the use of problem-based learning, instructional blogging or gaming. Podcast
- Why student-centred learning works Play it / hear it - MP3 - 13 minutes Successful implementation of user-centered game based learning in higher education: An example from civil engineering This article describes the research around the use of gaming as a learning tool in a civil engineering course. Students learned as much as in traditional courses but reported having a lot more fun learning through the game. Instructional Blogging: This information technology professor discusses his use of blogging in his courses and offers suggestions as to how to incorporate this tool and other technologies into classes. The many faces of inductive teaching and learning Other Resources: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer A presentation by Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur at the University of Northern British Columbia. Found on YouTube, it runs 80 minutes. Well worth taking the time to watch. Contact is the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's monthly e-newsletter bringing you the latest information on teaching and learning. Contact podcasts are also available for subscription free from the iTunes Music Store - just search on UOIT. Feel free to pass along this newsletter to anyone you feel would benefit from this information. Have them e-mail us at contact@uoit.ca if they want to be added to the mailing list. Visit the Contact web site at http://www.uoit.ca/teachingandlearning/contact to see past issues.
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