Posts Tagged ‘learning experiences’
September 27 - Deciding What Your Students Must Learn
By: Mary Bart in Effective Teaching Strategies
You were hired because of your deep subject matter expertise; knowledge you want to share with your students. The problem is, the number of hours in a typical semester hasn’t changed, but the amount of information in your discipline continues to grow…and it’s all critical. Or is it?
August 16 - Nine Ways to Customize Learning Experiences
By: Mary Bart in Instructional Design
In every course there are certain core concepts and principles that are important for each student to learn, develop into useful knowledge, and apply appropriately. What’s not important is how they learn these core concepts.
June 10 - Helping Student Apply What They Learn
By: Karen Lightstone, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies
I recently set out to make introductory managerial accounting a more effective learning experience for students. The course is typically taken in a student’s first or second year. The range of experiences students bring to the course can be quite diverse. Some may have never been employed, still live at home, and have parents who work in white-collar jobs. Others may have worked and lived on their own, and have family who may own or run a store or work in factories. This diversity means that some students have no mental picture of how goods are manufactured, while others understand the process required to get a product to the customer.
April 21 - Six Steps to Designing Effective Service-Learning Courses
By: Mary Bart in Curriculum Development, Instructional Design
A biology class works with a local environmental organization to test water samples from the Chesapeake Bay. A graphics design class helps a non-profit organization build a new website. A childhood development class serves as mentors to at-risk students in an after-school program.
September 15 - A Modular Course Design Benefits Online Instructor and Students
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Andrea Henne, dean of online and distributed learning in the San Diego Community College District, recommends creating online courses composed of modules—discrete, self-contained learning experiences—and uses a course development method that specifies what to include in each module.
March 4 - The ECHO Model of Experiential Learning
By: Jim La Prad and Andy Mink in Learning Styles, Teaching and Learning
As educators we hear and heed Peter McLaren’s warning, “You can’t teach people anything … You have to create a context in which they can analyze themselves and their social formations and lives.” 1 We believe the creation of this context must be our aim as educators, and this context must be balanced between theory
