Student-Centered Learning Environments in Higher Education Classrooms
Published on 29. October 2016
Book
Hardback
XVII, 453 pages
978-1-349-94940-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book aims to develop a situative educational model to guide the design and implementation of powerful student-centered learning environments in higher education classrooms. Rooted in educational science, Hoidn contributes knowledge in the fields of general pedagogy, and more specifically, higher education learning and instruction. The text will support instructors, curriculum developers, faculty developers, administrators, and educational managers from all disciplines in making informed instructional decisions with regard to course design, classroom interaction, and community building and is also of relevance to educators from other formal and informal educational settings aside from higher education.
Reviews / Votes
"Student-Centered Learning Environments in Higher Education Classrooms makes important contributions to our understanding. It will support instructors, curriculum developers, faculty developers, administrators, and educational managers from all disciplines in making informed instructional decisions with regard to course design, classroom interaction, and community building and is also of relevance to educators from other formal and informal educational settings aside from higher education." (SirReadaLot.org, May, 2017)More details
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 s/w Abbildungen, 7 farbige Abbildungen
XVII, 453 p. 18 illus., 7 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
718 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-94940-3 (9781349949403)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-349-94941-0
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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06/2018
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E-Book
10/2016
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€96.29
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Person
Sabine Hoidn is Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The Pedagogical Concept of Student-Centered Learning in the Context of European Higher Education Reforms.- Chapter 3 Constructivist Foundations and Common Design Principles of Student-Centered Learning Environments.- Chapter 4 Empirical Education Research on the Effectiveness and Quality of Learning and Instruction.- Chapter 5 Multiple Ethnographic Case Study Research of Student-Centered Learning Environments in Higher Education Classrooms.- Chapter 6 Single and Cross Case Analyses of Characteristic Curricular Design Elements and Related Quality Features of the Student-Centered Classrooms under Study.- Chapter 7 Single Case Analyses of Deeper-Level Instructional Quality Dimensions and Features of the Student-Centered Classrooms under Study.- Chapter 8 Cross Case Analysis of Deeper-Level Instructional Quality Dimensions and Features.- Chapter 9 Situative Educational Model for the Design of Powerful Student-Centered Learning Environments.