On Learning Methods in Higher Education:Origin,Views and Future Trends
There has been over 40 years since the research on learning in higher education.Learning methods research is the main part in this research field.Today,many scholars have recognized that it is the basic work to reorganize the related research on learning methods.Firstly,based on the qualitative empirical research,Sweden scholars summarized two types of learning methods,which are deep learning and surface learning.English and Australian researchers further design questionnaire to do quantitative research on students' learning methods.Lastly,as to the future trend of development,the learning sciences provide new research method to help researchers do more ground-rooted research,more research projects focused on non-western college students and compare the difference between eastern and western people,etc.Then,we should pay more attention to some apparent future development trends in research content,research method,research objects and research horizon.