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Learner-centered instructional strategies provide learners with increased autonomy of the learning process and promote participatory learning through solving authentic problems that are contextually relevant to the learners’ environment. Instructors must be adaptable to the needs of their learners and flexible to address the challenges associated with learner-centered instruction. A cognitive apprenticeship was used to teach undergraduate faculty how to develop more contextually relevant learning experiences for their courses. Examples of how such experiences promote principles of situated learning and enhance the design of instruction are discussed.
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Stefaniak, J. (2015). Promoting Learner-Centered Instruction Through the Design of Contextually Relevant Experiences. In: Hokanson, B., Clinton, G., Tracey, M. (eds) The Design of Learning Experience. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16504-2_4
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