Abstract:

In this new era, companies are looking for employees with competence and transversal skills who can apply knowledge gained from their education to their jobs with less training and also be able to communicate and work in team environment. These competence and skills can be obtained from their learning experience. Graduates who have experienced a variety of learning activities are expected to perform much better than those who have gone through the conventional knowledge-based learning. Therefore, curriculum developers should pay attention to what types of learning experience their students will gain. Presented in this paper is the classification of existing teaching and learning methods based on a student learning experience model called ‘LOVE’ model that classifies learning activities based on the nature of learning and student involvement. They are classified into four categories: L-Learning; O-Observing; V-Visiting; and E-Experimenting. The result shows that many teaching and learning methods—even they have been updated by incorporated with the active learning pedagogy—are still unable to provide immersive learning experience. They are mostly packed in the boundary of O-observing and, especially, L-learning experience.

Keywords:

Classification, Teaching and learning method, Experience model, LOVE.