designing courses for significant learning
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Presentation by Stewart Ross, Minnesota State University Mankato, introducing Dee Fink’s taxonomy of significant learning at Minnesota Campus Compact's, Designing Community-Engaged Courses and Assessment event,October 7, 2011.TRANSCRIPT
- 1. DESIGNING COURSES for SIGNIFICANT LEARNING
A Workshop Offered by:
- Stewart Ross, Ph.D.Dee Fink & Associates
University of Minnesota
October 7, 2011
2. 3. SPECIFIC GOALS for This Workshop
FOUNDATION KNOWLEDGE: Understand the basic terms and concepts
APPLICATION:Be able to use the model of Integrated Course Design
(ICD)
INTEGRATION:Identify the relationship between what you are doing
now as a teacher and the ideas of ICD
4. SPECIFIC GOALS for This Workshop(cont.)
HUMAN DIMENSION:
- SELF:Be more confident that you can do this
5. OTHERS: Work with others to create more powerful
designsCARING:Identify the value of course design in teaching
LEARNING HOW TO LEARN: Know what else you want to learn about
course design and how to learn that.
6. Agenda for Workshop
Big Picture of TeachingPlace of Course Design
Readiness Assessment Test
Integrated Course Design:
-Situational Factors
-Learning Goals
-Feedback & Assessment
-Teaching/Learning Activities
-Making your course integrated
Does it work?
7. PARADIGM SHIFT IN COLLEGE TEACHING
From:TEACHING
To:LEARNING
- What is the difference?
8. Leads to new questions about our work as teachers.