Passive Learning ( Teacher-centered )
- Teacher lectures and controls everything in the learning process
- Very little interaction occurs between students.
- Students use lower level thinking skills such as comprehension and application.
- Educational aids and tool are rarely used.
- Teacher relies on verbally relaying information.
- Students are not involved in the learning process.
Active Learning ( Learner-centered)
- Teacher is a facilitator and monitor and guides students.
- Task based process of learning.
- It requires students to learn by discovery.
- Interaction is a combination between teacher and student and student to student through pair and group activities.
- Students discuss, debate and give opinions on what they are learning.
- Students use higher level thinking skills when completing tasks such as analysis, simulations, synthesis and evaluation and task based learning.
- Information is dynamic and is put into practice in different situations.
