Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses

From: The Community College Enterprise | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses y By L. Dee Fink San Frandsco: Jossey-Bass, 2003 xviii, 295 pp; Hardcover, $35.00^sup USD^, ISBN: 0787960551.

The author raises the fundamental question, how can we create courses that will provide significant learning experiences for our students? He also attempts to describe an environment for teachers that will answer the question by developing many options significant in student learning. Most teacher learning goals today are the understand-and-remember type of learning or what Dr. Fink refers ...

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