Student-Centered Learning Environments in Higher Education Classrooms

"Hoidn's book presents an overdue scholarly work investigating how instruct-ors can design and bring to life student-centered learning environments. The developed educati-on-al model constitutes a significant and comprehensive contribution to higher education learning and instruction, tying empirical findings, namely authentic participati-on-oriented educati-onal practices, to existing state-of-the-art research on constructivist learning and instruction. The detailed findings support higher education faculty, curriculum and faculty developers and administrators in making informed instructional decisions to scaffold deep learning." (Rolf Dubs, Professor Emeritus, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) "This book, in a bravura way, relates theoretical models with case study research and learning practice itself. This is, without debate, an exceptionally seminal reading for anybody who intends to create high quality student-centered classroom environments." (Martin Hejnala, Department of OP Management, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic)

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.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.