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Student-centered classroom
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Goal is developing student’s ability to gather,
process and use knowledge.
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Students active participants in course.
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Sources of information are the world around
us and students themselves.
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Instructor as a coach.
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Negotiated control of the course.
Needed for the new egaltarian information
economy where positions are more tailered to the skills of the person and
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Teacher-centered classroom
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Goal is transmitting knowledge to students.
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Students are passive recipients in course.
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Source of information is instructor.
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Instructor as a taskmaster.
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Instructor maintains control of the course.
Appropriate for the old heirarchial industrial econonomy where workers
must fit into predefined positions and may do the same job for life.
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