Student-Focused Learning: Higher Education in an Exponential Digital Era - Softcover

Staat, Darrel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475854986 ISBN 13: 9781475854985

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020

Synopsis

Learning methods for the twenty-first century will include those which are student-centered, learning-focused, and digitally enhanced. Teaching will become learning management; the lecturer will become a learning guide, and students will become learning inventors. This book provides chapters describing a number of methods to be used in higher education in the twenty-first century. Some methods have been in existence for a period of time; others are literally at the front edge of development. Trying them out, piloting them, and experimenting with them for the benefit of the student is well worth the effort.

It is best to be as prepared as possible for future changes rather than waiting to see what is going to happen. Those who try and are successful will be the leaders in learning management of the near future. In the digital world, being at the leading edge has definite advantages. No matter which method is used, it should focus on the student as learner with the faculty member as a learning guide. To survive in the twenty-first century, students will need to become continuous learners, developing with changes at an exponential velocity. Educators need to keep this critical concept in mind.

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About the Author

Darrel W. Staat is past president of three community colleges (founding president of one) and president of the South Carolina Technical College System. He is currently an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Higher Education Executive Leadership Program at Wingate University in North Carolina.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475854986
• ISBN 13: 9781475854985
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160