Hobby activities can be viewed through the lens of informal, free-choice learning. A wide range of hobbies combine fun and learning-intensive practices, and can contribute to scientific literacy. Hobby learning involves clear goal orientation, persistence and effort, and often results in more richly and strongly connected knowledge; traits highly valued...
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a
learner-centered teaching system and that of a conventional teaching of
basic electricity to university students. For this study 65 students
enrolled in basic electricity at Arizona State University in Tempe,
Arizona were used, distributed in two fall semester...