Innovative pedagogical practices in higher education: An integrative literature review

Higher education teachers are increasingly challenged to adopt student-centered approaches. To determine the strategic guidelines which promote a conceptual change in higher education students, in the context of student-centered approaches to teaching. Integrative literature review, using the PICO method, applied to the ERIC and EBSCO electronic databases. We analyzed 10 articles that were published between 2012 and 2016. We identified four thematic categories: dissonance between concepts and approaches to teaching; mixed approaches with ICTs association; digital simulation; approaches employed in large classes. The use of new pedagogical practices promotes the involvement of students, improves critical and creative thinking, reduces apathy and contributes to peer-learning. •Innovative approaches increase student engagement, motivation, and critical thinking.•Increase reflection, higher level thinking, and deep learning•Improves the responsibility for learning, the ability to interact with peers and teacher•Innovative approaches provide teacher satisfaction, and immediate feedback to students.