Abstract:
Student-centered learning is an educational conceptual framework that is currently actively promoted. Latterly higher education is profoundly different from what it was a few decades ago. The idea of placing the student at the center of the study process brings profound changings in higher education system. Labor market and the globalization process require a thorough rethinking of the educational process and changing of the learning values. Student becomes an active participant in the learning process. The main aim of such approach is not only assimilating the curriculum but developing professional skills that market demands. The students manage independently their own learning. All this leads to a shift in the paradigm, necessary at the micro level - in teaching, learning and assessment. Addressing bring changes in the role and responsibility of the teacher and student. The student centered learning involves changes in the role and responsibilities or the learners and students, in the program materials delivery and in the learning process itself. Learning becomes personalized, students engage in different ways and in different places. Students benefit from individually paced, targeted learning tasks that formatively assess existing skills and knowledge that address the student’s needs and interests. Learning is based on the outputs based on the knowledge which engages students in their own success support one another’s progress and incorporates their interests and skills into the learning process.