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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Preference on Online Learning Environments in Student-Centered Education - Zühal CUBUKCU, TOJDE
Nowadays, educational systems are being questionned to find effective solutions to problems that are being encountered, and discussions are centered on the ways of restructuring systems so as to overcome difficulties. Especially at schools, problems can be claimed to be the result of traditional educational applications. When the main characteristics of traditional teaching methodologies is examined, the following features come out: mainly based on information transfer, too dependent on coursebooks, a teacher-centered approach, students are cognitively passive, no room for creative thinking, no consideration of individual differences, and an atmosphere that deters students from expressing their personal opinions. As the consequences of the traditional teaching approach, we can indicate that the taught material is not long-lasting but easily forgotten, that students do not sufficiently acquire the knowledge and skills that are aimed at developing, and that students lack transferring their knowledge to real life.These problems that result from traditional teaching approaches has led scolars in the area of educational sciences to launch studies aimed at developing teaching methodologies.
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