TY  - JOUR
TT  - Creating Learner-Centered Learning Environments in 21st Century Higher Education Classrooms
AU  - Er, Mustafa
PY  - 2016
DA  - December
JF  - Batı Anadolu Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi
JO  - WAJES
PB  - Dokuz Eylul University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1308-8971
SP  - 105
EP  - 118
VL  - 7
IS  - 13
KW  - Yükseköğretim
KW  - Teknoloji Destekli Aktif Öğrenme
KW  - 21.yy Zorlukları
N2  - Workforce capabilities are evolving into complexity and educational institutions are to adopt newstrategies complied with this change in order to help the students to survive in sophisticated workenvironments requiring not only mastery of the content knowledge but also problem solving skills.Our traditional model of higher education is not meeting the 21st century challenges. In order torespond the demands of the new era higher education institutions must revise their programs andpedagogies. In this article, the author discusses the ways of fulfilling the needs of twenty-first-centurylearners who are expected to solve novel and complex problems. In this respect technology is avaluable tool for making our graduates acquire the core 21st century capabilities. Creating learningenvironments enabling the students actively engaged in the learning process and making them activeteam members should be the utmost goal of higher education classrooms. Meaningful learningthrough technology enhanced learning environments can aid the learners to improve theiradaptability skills and succeed in real life situations. This paper emphasizing the importance ofconstructivist learning platforms will focus on good practices of Technology Enhanced ActiveLearning (TEAL) classrooms in higher education. Furthermore on the way of creating learner-centeredlearning environments, the challenges that will be faced by teachers, instructional designers, andeducational administrators will be discussed and the new roles of the instructors will be elaborated.
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