Implementation Issues of Student-Centered Learning based Engineering Education in Developing Countries Universities

Abstract

Student-Centered Learning is one of the most popular and promising instruction approaches as it is supposed to enhance the active role of students on Engineering Education. Although there are multiple advantages of employing it, there are also multiple implementation issues that have been identified by previous works. Unfortunately, the focus of those works was mostly referring to developed countries context. However, due to differences technological and teaching support resources, as curricula structure, individual academic regulations and even culture, some dissimilarities are induced on the actual issues in developing countries. In this work, we explore the corresponding matters of Student-Centered Learning over Engineering Education in the context of a fraction of developing countries. An analysis of issues' similarities and differences suggests that, despite the common difficulties, developing countries may be more distant from real SCL implementation as they seem to have more complex problems than developed economies.