Creating Significant Learning Experiences

All teachers face the challenge of designing their courses and teaching in a way that leads to learning that can be deemed to be truly significant, as viewed by both students and others.

Dee Fink has written a book on this subject: Creating Significant Learning Experiences (Jossey-Bass, 2003). This website is intended to complement that book and to allow interested parties to continue learning how to meet this challenge as effectively as possible.

To this end, this website allows you to:

• Read a summary of key ideas from the book.
• Read descriptions of courses that have been successful in promoting significant student learning.
• Describe and share one of your own teaching experiences that has been successful in this way. (This is NOT a time to be modest, we all need to learn from each other.)
• Pose questions and problems you face in trying to design significant learning experiences.
• Find additional publications and websites that are related to this subject.