Student-centred learning activities establish relevance through:
- Discussing how theory can be applied in practice
- Making a link to local cases
- Emphasising active rather than passive learning
- Emphasising deep learning than surface learning
- Encouraging increased learner autonomy
- Applying reflective and reflexive teaching and learning processes
Learning and instruction is often presented through a dual approach of either student-centred learning or teacher-centred learning. In reality, however, these two are seen as a continuum where the direction depends on both the nature of the subject and instructor’s epistemological conventions.
Again, Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Service Learning allow students to set some of their own learning objectives/outcomes, and be active in the learning process.