Learner Centered Education Survey

• Helps students pursue personally meaningful goals. 
• Makes learning more meaningful and fun. 
• Enhances student ability to set learning goals and experience success in meeting them. 
• Involves students actively in the learning process. 
• Broadens ways for students to receive and/or present information. 
• Contributes to higher-level thinking among students. 
• Enables students to engage in learner centered projects and activities that promote student choice and responsibility. 
• Makes the learning environment supportive and positive. 
• Contributes to making the learning environment less threatening. 
• Increases level of motivation among students. 
• Supports student curiosity and intrinsic interest in learning. 
• Contributes to meeting individual learner needs. 
• Enables students to integrate and organize knowledge in personally meaningful ways. 
• Provides a variety of settings for student learning. 
• Diminishes a sense of competition in learning. 
• Fosters cooperation in learning. 
• Empowers students to meet their learning needs. 
• Helps students increase the overall quality of their personal relationships. 
• Broadens student awareness of and appreciation for the diversity among people. 
• Makes the learning environment more responsive to student learning needs. 
• Helps students assume personal responsibility for learning.

In the same LCE survey, students also reported that Valley City State University is a place that accomplishes to some degree each of the above-mentioned practices related to learner centered education.

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