Creating Significant Learning Experiences

<p>”Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read.” —<b>Ken Bain</b>, author, <i>What the Best College Students Do</i></p> <p>Since the original publication of L. Dee Fink’s <i>Creating Significant Learning Experiences</i>, higher education has continued to move in two opposite directions: more institutions encourage faculty to focus on research, obtaining grants, and publishing, while accreditation agencies, policy-makers, and students themselves emphasize the need for greater attention to the quality of teaching and learning.</p> <p>Now the author has updated his bestselling classic, providing busy faculty with invaluable conceptual and procedural tools for instructional design. Step by step, Fink shows how to use a taxonomy of significant learning and systematically combine the best research-based practices for learning-centered teaching with a teaching strategy in a way that results in powerful learning experiences.</p> <p>This edition addresses new research on how people learn, active learning, and student engagement; includes illustrative examples from online teaching; and reports on the effectiveness of Fink’s time-tested model. Fink also explores recent changes in higher education nationally and internationally and offers more proven strategies for dealing with student resistance to innovative teaching.</p> <p>Tapping into the knowledge, tools, and strategies in <i>Creating Significant Learning Experiences</i> empowers educators to creatively design courses that will result in significant learning for their students.</p> <p>”As thought-provoking and inspiring today as it was when it was first published, it is a ‘must’ for anyone serious about creating courses that challenge students to learn deeply.” —<b>Elizabeth F. Barkley</b>, author, <i>Student Engagement Techniques</i></p>