Learning in the 21st century: Principles, models, environments

by Marvel Lee Cummings

If a time traveler from the 18th century came to town, he would be amazed by all the technological advances in transportation, communication, medicine, etc. However, upon visiting a nearby university, he immediately would recognize the teaching method. Our teaching methods have not changed much; we still educate students the same way they were taught hundreds of years ago. The proliferation of powerful personal computers and the Internet changed everything: digital repositories were built and tens of thousands of massively parallel computers provided rapid access to extensive knowledge bases. Information has become as common as dirt. This demands a new model of education that caters to 21st-century skills: teamwork, brainstorming, co-creativity, critical thinking, and social intelligence. This book outlines the fundamental principles of a learning methodology that my students followed in the past decade or so.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1090496729
• ISBN13: 9781090496720
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"