Blended learning has become the "New normal" of current education. However, since most teachers have not received special blended teaching training, they habitually continue to use traditional teacher-centered concept when designing and implementing teaching, which seriously hindered development teaching. The OBE Outcome-Based Education is a learner-centered educational concept, points out dire...

This paper presents a list of principles that can be used to conceptualize games for health behavior change. These principles are derived from lessons learned after teaching two design-centered courses on Gaming and Narrative Technologies for Health Behavior Change. Course sessions were designed to create many rapid prototypes on specific topics coupling behavior change theory with iterative hu...

This article presents a model for designing student-centered, technology-rich learning environments (SCenTRLE). The model helps educators operationalize constructivist and student-centered approaches to teaching and learning by delimiting eight instructional events for facilitating knowledge construction and the development of life-long learners. The article describes theoretical and conceptual...

This study explores four-year elementary education students’ understanding of how children learn mathematics through the use of concept maps. Thirteen Canadian and 9 students from Lebanon participated in the study. Over a two-week period students were asked to reflect on how children learn mathematics. The Lebanese students were prone to produce conceptual structures that were more teacher-cent...

This study describes the teaching style behaviors that differentiate between learner-centered and teacher-centered approaches to teaching. The Teaching Style Assessment Scale, which measures style, was completed by 1,261 nursing faculty in Japan. Discriminant analysis cluster revealed distinctive characteristic distinguishing approach from is Personalizing Instruction. Instruction recognizes ut...

This position paper describes the issues surrounding teaching Human Centered Software Engineering (HCSE). We identify a lack of methods in software engineering practices in new media projects. To get a better understanding of that, we are currently conducting a study to identify the current practices in the new media industry. The Human Centered ICT Toolkit is discussed, what it achieved, and w...

In view of the problems traditional teaching mode, SPOC (small private online course)-based hybrid mode and practice exploration in circuit analysis course were carried out among 19-level undergraduate students electrical engineering its automation conjunction with school’s platform project Circuit Analysis. The shows that SPOC-based has realized transformation from teacher teaching-centered to...

With the emergence of learner-centered approaches to teaching, the importance of learnerautonomy becomes more and more evident. In addition, there are many of elements inEnglish teaching/learning environments that may affect the EFL language learner'sautonomous learning. Thus, this study was conducted, aiming to find out the extent towhich students think the autonomy of ...

With calls for innovation in nursing education from national bodies of nursing, nurse educators must determine the best teaching strategies to meet educational standards. Team-based learning (TBL), an innovative teaching strategy, offers educators a structured, student-centered learning environment. The purpose of this study was to compare TBL and traditional lecture (a commonly used teaching m...