ICT Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Constructivist Approach

Constructivist Pedagogy

This article constitutes a critique from the inside of constructivist pedagogy. It begins with a short history of constructivist pedagogy and its relationship to constructivist learning theory. It then addresses four issues in the ways in which constructivist pedagogy are being approached in research and practice. The first issue recommends more of a research focus on student learning in classr...

Use of Constructivist Approach in Higher Education: An Instructors’ Observation

The study aimed at exploring the significance of constructivist approach at higher education level. It also examined its effects on social learning of students. The researcher adopted observational method of descriptive research. The participants of the study consisted of students of Master of Arts in Education (M. A. Education) of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur. The researcher taught a c...

An architecture of an ICT based system for constructivist based learning in higher education

The development of web based learning environment for constructivist based learning in higher education is presented in the paper. It was based on the ADDIE model. The main orientation of the authors of the system was to take into account recent findings of pedagogical research and availability of new technologies in order to create efficient and effective learning support for the students. Act...

Special Issue—Pedagogy for Education for Sustainability in Higher Education

Pedagogy and ICT use in South African Science Education

The purpose of this paper is to present work in progress as part of the analysis of the South African SITES 2006 data which forms the basis for an ongoing PhD study. The PhD study aims to examine how teachers in classrooms representing the majority of South African schools use ICT when they teach science and to explore factors which may be used as predictors of ICT use by science teachers in si...