Beyond the student-centered higher education classroom: The student-centered ecosystems framework
Journal
Learning and Teaching Journal
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Abstract
In student-centered classrooms less time is devoted to plain lecturing (“telling”) and more time to meaningful and challenging tasks and activities that increase the level of students’ cognitive engagement with disciplinary content as well as active student participation (Hoidn, 2017, 2019). Hoidn and Klemenčič (2020a) argue, however, that student-centered learning and teaching processes need to be thoughtfully embedded in broader institutional ecosystems – so-called student-centered ecosystems which, in turn, are also connected to and influenced by the wider political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which HEIs operate. This paperintroduces student-centered ecosystems consisting of five main components which serve as indicators of the presence of student centered learning and teaching (SCLT) in a given educational institution or study program: (1) Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; (2) Teaching and learning support; (3) Quality of learning and teaching; (4) Governance and administration; and (5) Policies and finance (Klemenčič & Hoidn, 2020).
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to education
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
ETH Zurich
Publisher place
Zurich
Volume
Vol. 2 No. 2
Number
Special issue: ICED 2020 proceedings
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
sabine.hoidn@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
249541