It has long been a pedagogic demand to center the education on the learner. This means that the student gains practical as well as theoretical knowledge according to his personal needs. This way the student is supposed to develop his talents in the most effective way and should be provided with a solid foundation to engage In lifelong learning. Ideally, the teaching is not all centered on the teacher anymore (eg. memorization) but endorses creative and individual learning approaches of the students.
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ICTs can provide a learned-centered environment in several ways:
- It endorses active learning of the student by enabling the use of the simulations and tools for analyzing and calculating data. It also gives the student new ways to deal with information and present content. A learning-by-doing approach is much easier to accomplish with such tools than with traditional teaching methods.
- It becomes easier for students to collaborate. They can work together on the same project by having access to the same learning interface. It is also possible to integrate students from other place of the world and thus to improve communicative and inter-cultural skills.
- The flexible solutions provide by ICT interface enhance the possibility of creative solutions to problems.
- Learning with ICTs bridges the divide between theory and practise as well as between teaching and learning. Interactivity vastly improves practical implementation of theoretical knowledge.
- With ICTs student can learn to evaluate a problem. This is achieved by providing students with problems that have several solutions. Students can then explore the different solutions and compare the results.
