ITUE 10th Anniversary Symposium

Want Your Students to Learn More?
Some New Ideas for Designing Significant Learning into Your Courses

workshop facilitated by Dee Fink
June 15, 2007
9:00am - noon; 2:00-4:00pm
Gore Hall 208

Most college teachers would like their courses to be an experience in which their students achieve some kind of significant learning that lasts. But we feel frustrated and uncertain about how to get that to happen – for more students, more of the time.

In this workshop, we will:

• Examine the place of instructional design in the “big picture” of teaching,
• Take a close look at what each of us really wants our students to learn,
• Systematically work through a new model of instructional design that will enable us to “design high quality learning into our courses,” and
• Conclude by looking at two case studies that address the question of whether this more intensive way of designing courses is worth the time it takes.

The reaction of most teachers to this new model, Integrated Course Design, is quite enthusiastic, for two reasons. It shows them why much of what they are currently doing is good, but it also identifies what they could add to their teaching that would make it even more powerful.

Reading activity prior to the workshop:
A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning

Dee Fink is a nationally-recognized expert on college teaching and faculty development. He founded the Instructional Development Program at the University of Oklahoma (1979) and served as its director until his retirement from Oklahoma in May 2005. He was president of the POD Network (Professional and Organizational Development) in Higher Education (2003-2006), the primary professional organization for faculty developers. At the present time he does independent consulting work. He is the author of “Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses” (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and co-editor of “Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching” (Stylus, 2004).
Homepage: http://www.finkconsulting.info/
E-mail: dfink@ou.edu

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