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Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses, Revised and Updated Updated Edition

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“Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read.”
—Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students Do

Since the original publication of L. Dee Fink’s Creating Significant Learning Experiences, higher education has continued to move in two opposite directions: more institutions encourage faculty to focus on research, obtaining grants, and publishing, while accreditation agencies, policy-makers, and students themselves emphasize the need for greater attention to the quality of teaching and learning.

Now the author has updated his bestselling classic, providing busy faculty with invaluable conceptual and procedural tools for instructional design. Step by step, Fink shows how to use a taxonomy of significant learning and systematically combine the best research-based practices for learning-centered teaching with a teaching strategy in a way that results in powerful learning experiences.

This edition addresses new research on how people learn, active learning, and student engagement; includes illustrative examples from online teaching; and reports on the effectiveness of Fink’s time-tested model. Fink also explores recent changes in higher education nationally and internationally and offers more proven strategies for dealing with student resistance to innovative teaching.

Tapping into the knowledge, tools, and strategies in Creating Significant Learning Experiences empowers educators to creatively design courses that will result in significant learning for their students.

“As thought-provoking and inspiring today as it was when it was first published, it is a ‘must’ for anyone serious about creating courses that challenge students to learn deeply.”
—Elizabeth F. Barkley, author, Student Engagement Techniques

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Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read. --Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students Do

Since the original publication of L. Dee Fink's Creating Significant Learning Experiences, higher education has continued to move in two opposite directions: more institutions encourage faculty to focus on research, obtaining grants, and publishing, while accreditation agencies, policy-makers, and students themselves emphasize the need for greater attention to the quality of teaching and learning.

Now the author has updated his bestselling classic, providing busy faculty with invaluable conceptual and procedural tools for instructional design. Step by step, Fink shows how to use a taxonomy of significant learning and systematically combine the best research-based practices for learning-centered teaching with a teaching strategy in a way that results in powerful learning experiences.

This edition addresses new research on how people learn, active learning, and student engagement; includes illustrative examples from online teaching; and reports on the effectiveness of Fink's time-tested model. Fink also explores recent changes in higher education nationally and internationally and offers more proven strategies for dealing with student resistance to innovative teaching.

Tapping into the knowledge, tools, and strategies in Creating Significant Learning Experiences empowers educators to creatively design courses that will result in significant learning for their students.

As thought-provoking and inspiring today as it was when it was first published, it is a 'must' for anyone serious about creating courses that challenge students to learn deeply. --Elizabeth F. Barkley, author, Student Engagement Techniques

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"Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read." ?Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students Do

Since the original publication of L. Dee Fink's Creating Significant Learning Experiences, higher education has continued to move in two opposite directions: more institutions encourage faculty to focus on research, obtaining grants, and publishing, while accreditation agencies, policy-makers, and students themselves emphasize the need for greater attention to the quality of teaching and learning.

Now the author has updated his bestselling classic, providing busy faculty with invaluable conceptual and procedural tools for instructional design. Step by step, Fink shows how to use a taxonomy of significant learning and systematically combine the best research-based practices for learning-centered teaching with a teaching strategy in a way that results in powerful learning experiences.

This edition addresses new research on how people learn, active learning, and student engagement; includes illustrative examples from online teaching; and reports on the effectiveness of Fink's time-tested model. Fink also explores recent changes in higher education nationally and internationally and offers more proven strategies for dealing with student resistance to innovative teaching.

Tapping into the knowledge, tools, and strategies in Creating Significant Learning Experiences empowers educators to creatively design courses that will result in significant learning for their students.

"As thought-provoking and inspiring today as it was when it was first published, it is a 'must' for anyone serious about creating courses that challenge students to learn deeply." ?Elizabeth F. Barkley, author, Student Engagement Techniques

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jossey-Bass; Updated edition (August 9, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118124251
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118124253
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches
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Mallory Nwaokai
5.0 out of 5 stars PhD Student learning how and implement effective learning strategies.
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2020
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The material in this book outlines the issues professors and educators are faced with from their audience and institutions. The author first discusses the controversial issues with "how professors teach" and how we need to change our way of thought in order to identify learning objectives and reinforce competency and critical thinking skills. With that being said, after reading the first couple of chapters I understand our leadership as mentors, educators or professors needs to be addressed; because often times its our inability to learn about how students learn.
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iTgirl
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent instructional preparation tools
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2013
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Very timely work; What Fink proposes requires a paradigm shift, the enormity of which may overwhelm educators who are simply looking to reuse the exact content and delivery methods that they may have used for decades, while this is disturbing, this frequently happens. For these, Fink has a distinct message: reflect and take responsibility for the teaching methods and integrative strategies you choose to adopt. His call to action is inspirational and well worth analyzing - simply because of the rapid ongoing changes in society and generationally.
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kristi
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2014
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For anyone who is interested in designing a course whether it is for the college classroom or for high school, this is a well-organized, up-to-date guide that takes you step-by-step through the design process. FInk asks the readers pertinent questions throughout the designing process which instill constant reflection in the writing process. Fink doesn't omit a thing that should be addressed in any course and sums up each chapter to review main points. I really lucked up when I ordered this book.
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Angela Risner The Sassy Orange
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book that has application outside of the college arena
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2014
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This book was on a list of recommended reading for designing eLearning. Even though it's title specifies college courses, this book is a great resource for anyone who designs learning, including corporate programs.

I love the emphasis on activity- and problem-based learning. Studies have shown time and again that lecture-based teaching is not effective for learning transfer. I've been out of college for 20 years now and I really can't recall the majority of what I "learned" there (although the student loans keep reminding me that I was there.)

I think the first goal for anyone in the instructional design world today is to move from auditive assessments to educative assessments. Instead of asking folks to simply recall information, let's have them apply it to see if they really know it.

Some favorite moments:
* When I talk with faculty, many say their biggest concern is low student attendance in class. Many see daily class attendance running around 50 percent by mid-semester in their lower division courses. And they report other problems as well. Many of the students who do attend spend much of their class time checking their phone message and so on. Students do not complete reading assignments. The energy level in class discussions is low. Students focus on grades rather than on learning. Textbooks keep getting larger and larger, which means teachers have to work harder and harder to cover the material. Many say they have lost the joy in their teaching. And when they try to change, they often feel unsupported by students, colleagues, and their institution.
* Students, for their part, have similar concerns. They often complain about courses not being very interesting, that they just sit and take notes and then cram for exam after exam. They have difficulty seeing the value or significance of what they are learning. They, too, see the textbooks getting larger and larger; for them this means greater cost as well as more material that they have to learn, master, or memorize for the test.
* In this teaching strategy (team-based learning), students read the related material on their own, then come to class and take a test on that material both individually and as a group. This sequence, called the "readiness assurance process," brings nearly all students up to a moderate level of content understanding quickly and effectively. Then the students are able to spend a significant amount of time working in class in small groups, learning how to apply that content through a series of practice application exercises. Eventually students take a test that measures both their content understanding and their ability to use that content. Then the cycle starts over, focused on the next major topic in the course.
* By working through this sequence and getting frequent, immediate feedback on their performance, the small groups gradually evolve into and become something quite different: learning teams. Once these newly formed groups have jelled and become cohesive teams, the members become very committed to the work of their teams and the teams become capable of accomplishing some very challenging learning tasks.

Highly recommend.

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Carolyn Stice
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for course design
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2016
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I purchased this book for a class in my Masters in Ed work called Online Pedagogy. It is very thoughtfully and practically written. From the start I could see its potential in course design, and I plan to continue to use it even after this class has ended. Great, easy to follow charts and explanations of theory. I highly recommend it.
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JOSE F VEGA RIVEROS
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for any higher education educator
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017
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Excellent book for any higher education educator. The author discusses with enough detail the concept of significant learning and how to apply it in a college course setting to increase student engagement, including online teaching. Indisputably, Fink is an authority on the topic of teaching - learning.
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SANCHEZ, Teresa
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is amazing. It provides a real clear vision on how ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2017
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This book is amazing. It provides a real clear vision on how make HE teaching a lot more relevant and significant. I am already putting into practice some of the elements and I hope to continue to apply this method step by step. Highly recommended!
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Joe Mc
3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not as good as they think it is...
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015
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This book reads a lot like a motivational speech. In spite of this, the content is pretty representative to current movements in pedagogy overall. With a little less fanfare, this could condense in to an excellent book.
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Alexandra Graßler
5.0 out of 5 stars Unterrichtsvorbereitung auf die beste Art und Weise!
Reviewed in Germany on November 17, 2020
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Manche von euch wissen, dass ich vor 25 Jahren als Lehrerin gestartet bin und unterrichten über alles in der Welt liebe.

Daher ist dieses Buch auch ein spezielles für alle die Dozenten sind, Referenten sind, Seminare und Workshops halten. L. Dee Fink hat das Buch "creating significant learning experiences" für College Dozenten geschrieben.

Das heißt jedoch nicht, dass sich die Inhalte nicht auf alle anderen Lehrveranstaltungen ebenfalls ummünzen lassen.

Sein Ansatz geht in die Richtung, das seit vielen Jahren Lehrveranstaltungen stattfinden, bei denen das Wissen nicht wirklich in den Köpfen der Studenten hängen bleibt.

Was außerordentlich schade ist, denn erstens investiert jeder Zeit und jeder sollte das Wissen, dass er dort lernt auch wirklich anwenden können.

Doch wenn nach wie vor, alte Modelle verwendet werden bei denen ein Dozent vorne steht und einen Monolog hält, dann wird im Wissenstransfer nicht viel passieren.

Im Buch schlüsselt er extrem detailliert und konkret auf, wie wir wahre Lernziele ermitteln können, wie sich daraus Notengebung entwickeln lässt, welche Art von Transfermöglichkeiten es gibt das Wissen zu den Studenten hinzubekommen, so dass es wirklich auf Dauer hängen bleibt.

Und, das ist für mich auch ein extrem wichtiger Faktor, wie kann es kurzweilig, anregend und motivierend sein zu unterrichten.

Gleich vorweg, ja das lässt sich auch für extrem trockene Themen wie Rechnungswesen, Jura, steuerliche Themen anwenden.

Ja es ist Aufwand, ja es kostet mehr Zeit in der Vorbereitung, doch ich kann euch garantieren die Ergebnisse sind sensationell.

Ich kann dieses Buch jedem ans Herz legen der unterrichtet und daran interessiert ist, dass das was er den Schüler und Schülerinnen beibringen möchte ihnen wirklich auf Dauer im Leben weiterhelfen kann. Von mir gibt es 5 Sterne!
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Fiorella
1.0 out of 5 stars A biography of the author rather than a useful book with witty tips.
Reviewed in Italy on March 10, 2019
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A lot of bla bla about the idea behind the book, but poor content about tangible strategies to engage students.
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EHM
5.0 out of 5 stars Ce livre est la référence dans le design pédagogique en ...
Reviewed in Canada on July 20, 2014
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Ce livre est la référence dans le design pédagogique en enseignement supérieur. Je le recommande vivement à toute personne débutante dans l'enseignement supérieur désirant élaborer un plan de cours de qualité et comprendre entre autres, le lien entre les objectifs d'apprentissage, les méthodes d'évaluation et les caractéristiques des étudiants.
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Gary
5.0 out of 5 stars Useful framework
Reviewed in Japan on April 23, 2014
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An invaluable book for helping me organise university courses. Recommended.
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Christine L Duguay
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2014
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This book is a must have for anyone who teaches or aspires to teach. It is well written, interesting, innovative and filled with useful, practical and intelligent examples of how you can create significant learning experiences. I highly recommend this book and loved reading every page of it. Christine
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