Learning 
   		                           
                                                   The Discovery of Fire (Magritte)

This is one of the sections at the core of our committee's task, that is, to improve learning through the design of curriculum systems. The responses to the "graffiti" question (What kind of learning experiences do you want your students to have?) relate directly to this section and are given again here:
  • competence/excellence
  • community enhancement
  • higher awareness
  • discovery/exploration
  • cross-curriculum
  • global, national, local
  • technological literacy
  • life-long learning
  • service
  • creativity
  • study well
  • think well
  • write well
  • read well
  • team skill
  • reflection
  • diversity
  • respect
  • openness
  • problem-
    solving
  • social skill
  • empower-
    ing

                     



The materials below address the following questions:
  • What are the theories about the different ways in which learning takes place?
  • Should all forms of learning be encouraged across the curriculum or are some ways of learning better adapted than others to specific kinds of knowledge or skills?
  • Can all ways of learning be quantified and assessed?
  • What is a learning college and how does it differ from a more traditional college?
  • What do we mean when we say we want to improve learning?
  • Do team-teaching, collaboration, interdisciplinary courses, electronic technology, and diversity improve learning and how?

Validity, Bias, and Justice in Educational Testing: The Limits of the Consequentialists Conception by Ken Howe

Theories of Learning Applied to Technological Instruction  by George E. Marsh II (graduate course at the Univ. of Alabama)

Measurements by Tests and Consequences of Test Use by Stephen P. Norris

Action Learning International

Resources for Action Research (Univ. of Colorado at Denver)

An Introduction to Action Research by Dorothy Gabel

The Online Conference on "The Reflective Practitioner" on ACTlist (March 1 -- April 3, 1998)

Problem-Based Learning Handbook (Queen's University, Canada). See also Problem-Based Learning Home Page

Disadvantages of Problem Based Learning (San Diego State University)

Teaching Methods for Learning Outcomes by Tom Bourner

Why Problem-Based Learning? by Diarmuid B. Shanley and Mary Kelly

Teacher Beliefs and Student Learning by Robert E. Orton

Can Hypocrites Be Good Teachers? by Bruce B. Suttle

Community Individual Virtues/Values Knowledge (What) Knowledge (How) Systems Management
Curriculum Teaching Learning Technology Reference CSI Home Page
Market Directions
in Education		 Directions in
Higher
Education		 Directions in Community
College Education		 Directions in Corporate-
Based Education		 Directions
in New
Technology		  
For further information, contact Frank Edler fedler@mccneb.edu or John McGaha jmcgaha@mccneb.edu