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Learner Centred Design: Learning/Design as Reflection and Adaptation

Editor: Diana Laurillard and Michael Derntl

Overview

Learner-centred education considers the student to be at the centre of teaching and learning activities. This means catering for diverse learner needs and characteristics, provision of a setting of authenticity and inclusion, openness to experience and persoach individual. The main goal is to faciltiate learners in becoming active, self-directed and self-responsible participants in the learning process, in which peers and the instructor serve as facilitators, motivators and personal resources.
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Supporting learners and teachers in using feedback to make the link between theory and practice; The left-hand square of the conversational framework. Teacher and learner both linking their conceptualisation with its instantiation in practice, through adaptation and reflection, but also negotiating their theories and comparing and adjusting practice through action and feedback, to try to achieve a match.h.nal growth, co-creation of knowledge, and personal regard for e
 

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References & Links

Laurillard, D. (2008). Open teaching: The key to sustainable and effective open education, in Opening Up EducationThe Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (eds), MIT PressPDF

Laurillard, D. (2008) Technology enhanced learning as a tool for pedagogical innovationJournal of Philosophy of Education, Special Edition on The New Philosophies of Learning, by Ruth Cigman and Andrew Davis (Eds), Wiley-Blackwell. PDF

Laurillard, D. (2009) The pedagogical challenges to collaborative technologiesInternational Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 4 (1) 5-20.

Laurillard, D. (2008)The teacher as action researcher: using technology to capture pedagogic formStudies in Higher Education, (33)2:139-154, Routledge. URL

Laurillard, D. (2002)Rethinking University Teaching: A Conversational Framework for the Effective Use of Learning TechnologiesRoutledgeFalmer

http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/34139/Conversational-Framework