New Study: with participation to more learner-centredness.

Current teaching approaches do not always seem to provide an adequate response to the challenges of the future, assuring that students acquire the necessary skills and mindset capable of adapting to emerging challenges. In the era of New Study, we need a shift from traditional teaching to a more learner-centred pedagogy. One important aspect of this is to actively engage students in the (re)design of the learning environment, giving them the freedom and responsibility to decide and contribute to the development, exploration, or evaluation of the learning process. New Study needs participation – an educator-student partnership as a collaborative and mutual process where all participants are given the equal chance to partake in shaping the learning environment. This article analyses the first exploration phase of the research project KoLLI, which analyses the role of participation in higher education and aims to develop a generic and flexible framework to enable participation at the course level.