BM1115A STUDENT CENTERED VSLECTURER CENTERED

2. LECTURER CENTERED
 Is an approach to education
focusing on the lecturer‟s
teaching
 Assumption that students
have little or no
understanding
 Lecturer is the source of
knowledge-direct learning
 Summative assessment
recall/indentify/define „facts‟
 The student therefore expects
lecturer to teach them-passive
learner

3. STUDENT CENTERED
 Is an approach to education
focusing the needs of the
students
 It focus on how learning is
achieved
 Recognition that students
learn in different ways
 Formative assessment
 Student build on their prior
knowledge
 Learning become active and
more social

5.  LECTURER CENTERED
STUDENT
FOCUS IS ON
WORK
LECTURER
ALONE
LECTURER
CHOOSE
THE TOPIC
LECTURER CLASSROOM
TALKS : IS QUIET
STUDENT
LISTEN

6.  STUDENT CENTERED
STUDENTS
FOCUS IS ON WORK IN
BOTH STUDENT PAIR, GROUP OR
AND LECTURER ALONE
STUDENT
HAVE SOME
CHOICE OF
TOPIC
CLASSROOM IS
LECTURER AND OFFEN NOISY
STUDENTS AND BUSY
INTERACT WITH
ONEANOTHER

8. ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
 Teachers can be experts  Doesn‟t suit all learning
and transmit knowledge style
 Doesn‟t require “good  Poor motivation and
teaching” attendances
 Simple structure for  Discrete boundaries
lecture and students between subjects
 It has history of  Retention problems
successful use

10. ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
 develop learning and  cannot relate well the
other skills purpose of different
 discover that learning is styles of learning
interesting and fun  have to work in team
 more attentive and  hard to corporate within
willing to participate in team members
class
 reports by students
increase a teacher‟s
information.

11. So we ask our self do we need to change?
As the profile , lecturer-centered approaches are
becoming less and less effective as students are
different from 10 or 20 years ago. Therefore , as
changes student-centered is more suitable as
learning technique in university.

12. “Tell me , and I will forget. Show
me, and I may remember. Involve
me, and I will understand”