Creating Significant Learning Experiences Through Integrated Course Design
Stewart Ross
This was very useful for me. Afterwards, my name was drawn to win the book the presentation was based on, which is great because the whole time I was thinking, “I have to read this!” If anyone (local) wants to read it, let me know… I’ll be at ZSR.
- Four areas to achieve better teaching
- knowledge of subject matter
- design learning experiences
- beginning of course
- interact with students
- manage the course
- Key components of integrated design
- teaching and learning activities
- feedback and assessment
- learning goals
- Situational Factors
- general & specific context of teaching/learning situation
- nature of the subject
- learner & teaching characteristics
- Good questions to ask
- how big
- room arrangement
- is it a prerequisite
- accrediting agency
- big picture learning expectations
- prior knowledge
- Fink’s Taxonomy of significant learning
- Foundational knowledge
- Application
- Integration
- Human dimensions
- Caring
- Learning how to learn
- When designing, write learning goals:
- 1. what is the foundational learning
- 2. how do you want students to apply the information
- 3. how do you expect students to be able to integrate the knowledge
- 4. what is the human dimension of the knowledge (ex. confidence to use knowledge)
- 5. students will care
- 6. students will learn how to learn
- Holistic active learning
- information and ideas
- experience
- reflection (in all courses)
- essentially service learning
- Tip from music
- part of class is practice & assessment
- so we can expect
- Feedback and assessment: “educative assessment”
- Forward-looking assessment
- Self-assessment
- Criteria and standards
- FIDeLity Feedback
- Example of a good real life assessment exercise
- Gave students a program, asked what they knew about the program based on the text
More information can be found here!
This was, in fact, so useful to me that I rewrote how I want to teach my information literacy by the end of the day. I have an entirely new set of assignments and lesson plans that I’ll be using in Fall 2008. w00t!
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