Student-Centred Learning – Toolkit for students, staff and higher education institutions

ToolkiT for sTudenTs, sTaff and higher educaTion insTiTuTions You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. Galileo Galilei It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irrev-erence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ToolkiT for sTudenTs, sTaff and higher educaTion insTiTuTions student-centred learning—Toolkit for students, staff and higher education institutions Brussels, october 2010 content angele attard, emma di iorio, koen geven, robert santa editing and Proofreading angele attard supported by the T4scl Project steering group ligia deca, european students' union Monique fouilhoux, education international Milica Popovic, education international robert santa, european students' union natalia Tarachiu, european students' union Bert Vandenkendelaere, european students' union olav Øye, european students' union With the guidance of the international advisory Board Prof. lee harvey, copenhagen Business school, denmark dr. sybille reichert, Ph.d, higher education consultant Prof. Jussi Välimaa, institute for educational research, university of Jyväskylä, finland Prof. kirsten hofgaard lycke, faculty of education , university of oslo, norway design & Typesetting linus rowedda cover illustration are edvardsen image credits This publication is part of the project »Time for a New Paradigm in Education: Student Centered Learning«, funded with support from the Euro-pean Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. aBBreViaTions eacea education, audiovisual and culture executive agency ecTs european credit Transfer system ei education international esu european students' union lll lifelong learning llP lifelong learning Programme (european commission) PBl Problem-Based learning rPl recognition of Prior learning scl student-centred learning T4scl Time for a new Paradigm in education: student-centred learning (Joint ei-esu Project) 1 PrinciPles and definiTion PrinciPles and definiTion 1 inTroducTion 1.1 This Toolkit forms part of the project entitled Time for a New Paradigm in Education: Student-Centred Learning (t4scl), jointly led by the European Students' Union (esu) and Education International (ei).This is an EU-funded project under the Lifelong Learning Programme (llp) administered by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (eacea). t4scl, as a pioneer initiative, aims to assist policy makers in designing sound student-centred learning (scl) strategies and approaches and to increase the capacity of student and staff representative organisations to be active partners in spreading a culture of scl in higher education institutions across Europe. The project aims to provide comprehensive …