What is Learner-centered Education?

Learner-centered education (LCE) is all about an entirely new way of seeing, thinking about, and acting on education.

Learner-centred education is also an approach that places the learner at the centre of the learning. This means that the learner or student is responsible for learning while the tutor is responsible for facilitating the learning.

It focuses on 3 key aspects about the learner:

1) Each learner is seen as being unique in meaningful ways. They have unique backgrounds, circumstances, and starting points with unique strengths, challenges, interests, and aspirations. All of these unique attributes call for unique responses from their learning system.

2) Each learner is seen as having unbounded potential—potential that will unfold at its own pace and in its own way. Every single learner is a wonder to behold, and

3) Each learner is seen as having an innate desire to learn. The job of the education system is to unleash that desire.

What are the benefits of Learner-centered Education?

• Improves participation.
• Improves retention of knowledge.
• Boosts performance at work. 
• Develops problem-solving skills. 
• Fosters collaborative learning.
  
• Makes learning more fun. 
• Facilitates personalized learning.

From the above, it can be deduced that Learner-Centered Teaching Techniques is a shift from a teacher or lecturer focused classroom environment, focused on the needs of the students.

Learning becomes an active search for meaning by the learner and constructed rather than passively received.