Student-Centered Learning Environments in Higher Education Classrooms / / by Sabine Hoidn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910148754603321
• Autore: Hoidn Sabine
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-349-94941-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVII, 453 p. 18 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 378
• Soggetti: Higher education; Educational policy; Education and state; Curriculums (Courses of study); Education—Curricula; Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; Curriculum Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. .
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. .