Creating Learner-Centered Learning Environments in 21st Century Higher Education Classrooms

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Creating Learner-Centered Learning Environments in 21st Century Higher Education Classrooms

Journal Title: Batı Anadolu Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi (BAED) - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 13

Abstract

Workforce capabilities are evolving into complexity and educational institutions are to adopt new strategies complied with this change in order to help the students to survive in sophisticated work environments requiring not only mastery of the content knowledge but also problem solving skills. Our traditional model of higher education is not meeting the 21st century challenges. In order to respond the demands of the new era higher education institutions must revise their programs and pedagogies. In this article, the author discusses the ways of fulfilling the needs of twenty-first-century learners who are expected to solve novel and complex problems. In this respect technology is a valuable tool for making our graduates acquire the core 21st century capabilities. Creating learning environments enabling the students actively engaged in the learning process and making them active team members should be the utmost goal of higher education classrooms. Meaningful learning through technology enhanced learning environments can aid the learners to improve their adaptability skills and succeed in real life situations. This paper emphasizing the importance of constructivist learning platforms will focus on good practices of Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms in higher education. Furthermore on the way of creating learner-centered learning environments, the challenges that will be faced by teachers, instructional designers, and educational administrators will be discussed and the new roles of the instructors will be elaborated.

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Mustafa ER

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