Changing the Role of a Lecturer to Improve the Student's Learning Outcomes

Abstract

The purpose of this study aims to review researches related to the changing role of lecturer in accordance with today’s fast changing in the world education including in Thailand caused by the disruption of internet and technology. Educational institution needs to keep up with the best methods and tools to be used for ensuring the learning effectiveness. Therefore, the role of lecturer in this changing must not to be overlooked. To respond with this, lecturer is required to think differently, be strategic, be innovative, be creative, and promote learning culture. It is commonly known that teaching and coaching are two different occupational roles. However, the term of coach has been tremendously used in various area thus teaching and coaching can be integrated to improve the student's learning outcome. Methodology, the data were analyzed the contextual factors via using a literature review and data from practitioner as the methodology in this paper. The result, this study found a significant importance of lecturer’s roles in conducting the active learning by using the technique of Think-Pair-Share format, Real-world situations, Students Debate, Minute Papers, Brainstorming, Cooperative Learning, Role-playing, Problem-Based Learning, Task Based Learning, Presentation-Practice-Production and Games. Conclusions/Recommendations, in changing the role of lecturer to be a coach and facilitator to improve student’s learning outcomes. It is crucial that this role can have a major impact upon the success of the teaching strategy and the outcome of the students’ learning. Conceptual framework model is proposed in this paper for the future research.