Creating significant learning experiences : an integrated approach to designing college courses

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Creating Significant Learning Experiences, Revised and Updated: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses; Copyright; Contents; Note to Updated Edition; Preface; Central Message; Significant Learning; Integrated Course Design; Better Organizational Support; Plan of the Book; Web Site on Significant Learning; Acknowledgments; The Author; Chapter 1: Creating Significant Learning Experiences: The Key to Quality in Educational Programs; How Satisfactory Are Current Forms of Instruction?; Cause of These Shortcomings; Are People Concerned About These Problems? Base Need: Significant Learning Experiences for StudentsSignificant Learning Experiences; An Analogy; Faculty: Ready for Change?; Institutional Change: Coming, Ready or Not!; The Forces Driving Institutional Change; Leading Toward the Right Kind of Change; Are Significantly Better Kinds of Learning Really Possible?; New Paradigms for Teaching; New Forms of Teaching; The Significance of Learning About Course Design; Potential Impact on Problems Faced by Teachers; Overall Significance of Learning About Course Design; An Invitation to a New Way of Thinking About Teaching. Chapter 2: A Taxonomy of Significant LearningBeginning the Journey; What Makes Learning Significant?; Major Categories in the Taxonomy of Significant Learning; Interactive Nature of Significant Learning; Formulating Course Goals Around Significant Learning; General Version; Developing Course-Specific Learning Goals; Significant Learning and the Literature on College Teaching; General Curricular Goals; Paradigm Shift; Does the Learning-Centered Paradigm Abandon Content?; How Do We Achieve Significant Learning?; Chapter 3: Designing Significant Learning Experiences I: Getting Started. Three Basic Ways of Putting a Course TogetherIntegrated Course Design: A New Model; Backward Design; A Key Feature: Integrated Components; Getting Started with Designing a Course; Initial Phase: Build Strong Primary Components; Step One: Identify Important Situational Factors; Step Two: Identify Important Learning Goals; Step Three: Formulate Appropriate Feedback and Assessment Procedures; The Psychology of Feedback and Assessment; Summary of Suggestions for Feedback and Assessment; Review of the Course Design Process Thus Far. Chapter 4: Designing Significant Learning Experiences ii: Shaping the Learning ExperienceInitial Phase, Continued; Step Four: Select Effective Teaching and Learning Activities; Step Five: Make Sure the Primary Components Are Integrated; Assessment of the Initial Phase; Intermediate Phase: Assemble the Primary Components into a Coherent Whole; Step Six: Create a Thematic Structure for the Course; Step Seven: Select or Create a Teaching Strategy; Step Eight: Integrate the Course Structure and the Instructional Strategy to Create an Overall Scheme of Learning Activities