PASSIVE VS ACTIVE LEARNING

Student-centred environment

Customised/ personalised

Teacher as facilitator

Student highly involved

Increase of participation, attention, motivation

Focus on communication and interaction

Learning-paced

Learning achievement by synthetising information/ creating ideas and solutions to a problem/ hands-on approach

roleplaying

laboratory experiments

debates

discussions

Divergent thinking

student questions and is critical of the information received

Feedback rich

formative assessment to improve leaning efficiency and gauge the amount of learning

Demonstrations/ assignments/Papers

Teacher-centred environment

Teacher-directed

Teacher as master of the subject

Student sits and listens

Focus on content presentation

System-paced

Learning achievement by internalising information

direct instrutions

lecturing

story-telling

Convergent thinking

student trusts the information received

Feedback limited

Tests and examinations