Making Learning-Centred Teaching Work in Asia and Beyond

This book guides readers to transition their teaching to learning-centred practices. Based on Weimer’s (2002, 2013) and Blumberg’s (2009, 2019) framework, the authors describe their faculty learning community-based journey through the adaptation, implementation, and assessment of a series of practical learning-centred teaching strategies. While furnishing a critical discussion of challenges, directions, and development of learning-centred pedagogy as applied to an Asian context, this book provides suggested pathways for educators around the world to embark on their own journey toward learning-centred teaching. These pathways cover a range of disciplines and teaching contexts from architecture and engineering to systems thinking and general education, illustrating the robustness and flexibility of learning-centred teaching. The authors provide examples of good teaching practice to help instructors, instructional designers, faculty developers and university administrators see how principles of learning-centred teaching and assessment can translate practically into quality classroom teaching and learning. The rigorous assessment methodology is both highly reflective and readily applicable to teaching assessment and portfolio development. It also shows how Blumberg’s (2019) rubrics and Cole & Stavros’ (2019) SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results) framework can be used to evaluate the impact of interventions. Contributing unique insights, this is a valuable guide for anyone interested in implementing student learning-centred pedagogical approaches and using rubrics for assessing teaching practice.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Mary Deane Sorcinelli Part I. Contexts of Learning-Centred Teaching Chapter 1. Why Learning-Centred Teaching? Join Us on a Transformational Journey as Educators Lynette Tan, Daniel Jew & Phyllis Blumberg Chapter 2. Our Faculty Learning Community: A Shared Journey of Developing More Learning-Centred Teaching Daniel Jew, Siu-Kit Lau & Bellam Sreenivasulu Chapter 3. Concepts and Tools for Systematic Review and Analysis of Teaching Phyllis Blumberg Part II. Courses: Learning-Centred Teaching Examples Chapter 4. Developing Student Agency and Responsibility for Learning: Strategies to Redistribute the Balance of Power and Instil Meta-Cognitive Skills Lynette Tan Chapter 5. Enhancing Engagement, Participation, and Reflection through a Co-Constructed Rubric Exercise Joel K. Q. Chow Chapter 6. Empowering Students’ Self-Learning using the Case Method Kuan Y. H. Chapter 7. Learning-Centred Teaching and Function of Content on Students’ Learning of Systems Thinking and System Dynamics Modelling Bellam Sreenivasulu Chapter 8. Reimagining the Role of the Instructor in a Residential College Course on Identity Kankana Mukhopadhyay Chapter 9. Promoting Student Engagement with Content in Engineering Education: An Integrated Design Using Blended Learning and Formative Assessment Daniel W. M. Sng Chapter 10. Students’ Experience and Performance in Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in a Design Course Siu-Kit Lau Chapter 11. Learning-Centric Instructional Design: Documenting Your Teaching Journey via Longitudinal Self-Assessment Daniel Jew Part III. Changing to Learning-Centred Teaching in Asia and Beyond Chapter 12. The Use of Learning-centred Teaching Constructs in Our Asian Context. Overview and More Traditional Constructs: Role of Instructor, Function of Content and Purposes and Processes of Student Assessment Daniel Jew & Phyllis Blumberg Chapter 13. The Use of Learning-centred Teaching Constructs in Our Asian Context. The Less Traditional Constructs: Balance of Power and Development of Student Responsibility for Learning Lynette Tan & Phyllis Blumberg Chapter 14. Institutional Infrastructure and Support for Learning-Centred Teaching and Faculty Development Phyllis Blumberg & Chng Huang Hoon Chapter 15. Suggestions for Your Successful Transitions to Learning-Centred Teaching Phyllis Blumberg, Daniel Jew & Lynette Tan Chapter 16. Conclusion. Learning-Centred Teaching: Lessons learned for the Path Forward in Asia and Beyond Phyllis Blumberg, Lynette Tan & Daniel Jew Volume References Glossary Appendix Index