Additional Resources on Creating
Significant Learning Experiences
I. Books & Articles
A. Books
- Bonwell, Charles C. and Eison, James A. 1991. Active Learning:
Creating Excitement in the Classroom. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education
Report 1. Washington, DC George Washington University.
This is the book that established the term and the concept
of active learning solidly in the professional literature of
college teaching.
- Wiggins, Grant. 1998. Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments
to Inform and Improve Student Performance. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.
This is an extremely important book because it shows how we
need to change our assessment procedures if we want them to
enhance learning as well as to audit it.
- Michaelsen, Larry K.; Knight, Arletta B., and Fink, L. Dee.
2002. Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups
for Large and Small Classes. Westport, CT: Praeger Press.
A strategy that is rapidly being adopted because it is relatively
easy to use and yet sophisticated enough to generate powerful
forms of learning in a wide range of teaching situations.
- Greater Expectations: The Commitment to Quality as a Nation
Goes to College. A report published by the American Association
of Colleges & Universities, 2002.
Offers an in-depth analysis of problems in higher education
from an institutional and organizational perspective. It also
offers recommendations on what should be done about them, advocating
among other things more and better "professional development
to improve teaching." Information about this publication
and the associated projects is available online: http://www.greaterexpectations.org/
- Zubizarreta, John. In Press (Expected: Summer 2003). The
Learning Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student
Learning. Bolton, MA: Anker.
Like "teaching portfolios," learning portfolios are
a potent device, both for fostering self-awareness and for communicating
something about oneself to others. This book describes the idea
of learning portfolios and offers examples of different ways
of using them.
- Tagg, John. In Press (Expected: Spring 2003). The Learning
College. Bolton, MA: Anker.
A follow-up to the famous article in Change Magazine
that he co-authored about the shift in higher education to a
learning paradigm, Tagg offers descriptions of what some
colleges are doing to make that paradigm shift a reality.
B. Articles
- Robert B. Barr & John Tagg, "From Teaching to Learning
- A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education," in Change
Magazine, Nov./Dec. 1995, Vol. 27/6, pp. 13-25.
This has become the most frequently cited article in the history
of Change Magazine and has the potential for opening
up dramatically new ways of thinking about what we are doing
in higher education.
- Lee Shulman, "Making Differences: A Table of Learning,"
in Change Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2002, Vol. 34/6, pp. 37-44.
Shulman too sees a need to go beyond Bloom's taxonomy and offers
a dynamic "table of learning" with six distinct types
of learning that teachers might aspire to promoting in their
teaching.
II. Websites
Listed below are websites with information on two powerful teaching
strategies that are capable of promoting significant learning.
- Team-Based Learning: A special way of using small groups
that allows them to become teams capable of using their knowledge
to solve very challenging problems.
Website: www.teambasedlearning.org
- Problem-Based Learning: A special teaching strategy that
gives a complex problem to students working in groups, and challenges
to learn what they need to learn in order to solve such problems.
Websites:
http://www.udel.edu/pbl/
http://www.samford.edu/ctls/problem_based_learning.html/pbl/
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/clrit/PBL_WebQuest.html
III. A Full Bibliography of Related Material
- Fink's book contains a more extended annotated bibliography
of material related to both significant learning and integrated
course design. This bibliography can be seen here in Word
document format and PDF format.
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