A Student Teacher Collaborative Community

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Author(s): Eugenia M.W. Ng (The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 10
Source title: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal)and Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch205

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality

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When we walk into any schools or universities, we often find educators teaching in front of the classroom. Despite numerous theories and research of learning approaches, many teachers and academics still prefer to rely on familiar pedagogical approaches such as stand up lectures, worksheets and rote learning activities even though they might preach about other approaches to learning and teaching. Interestingly, this practice appears to be proportional to the age of the learners, that is, more commonly practiced at university level than at kindergarten level. Lecturing is the norm of teaching at universities (Biggs, 2001). Does the teacher-centered teaching approach sufficiently prepare the youngster to cope with the ever changing world?

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