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Maker-Centred Learning

How findings from Maker-Centred Learning can help your students

Key Insights

Maker-Centred Learning is a student-focused, multidisciplinary approach.
- It integrates different subjects and encourages students to do hands-on exploration and learning through making.
Maker-Centred Learning can help your students by:
- Boosting their critical thinking skills.
- Increasing students’ engagement with the topic at hand.
- Increasing their motivation.
Students get to apply core knowledge to real-world problems without the pressure of traditional assessments.
Overall, Maker-Centred Learning can:
- Encourage collaboration across disciplines and subjects.
- Make learning more relevant for students.
- Foster students’ creativity and problem-solving in a practical context.

Introduction to Maker-Centred Learning

Research Team

To learn more about this research, please contact the Research-Practice-Policy Group (RPPG) at oer.rppgroup@nie.edu.sg.

Principal Investigator

Assoc Prof Teo Beng Chong (Formerly of NIE, Mathematics & Mathematics Education)

Acknowledgement

This study was funded by the Education Research Funding Programme, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (project no. DEV 01/19 TBC). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Singapore MOE and NIE.
This knowledge resource was extracted and reconstructed from the published materials from the research team by Ms Shee Yi Xuan, Katherine with input from Assoc Prof Loh Chin Ee and Ms Lorraine Ow and presented on 27 Nov 2024.