Learning Paradigm College

Name: Learning Paradigm College
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ISBN: 9781882982585

ISBN-10: 1882982584

ISBN-13: 9781882982585

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Tagg, Peter T. Ewell

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In The Learning Paradigm College, John Tagg builds on the ground-breaking Change magazine article he coauthored with Robert Barr in 1995, "From Teaching to Learning; A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education." That piece defined a paradigm shift happening in American higher education, placing more importance on learning outcomes and less on the quantity of instruction. As Tagg defines it, "Where the Instruction Paradigm highlights formal processes, the Learning Paradigm emphasizes results or outcomes. Where the Instruction Paradigm attends to classes, the Learning Paradigm attends to students."The Learning Paradigm College presents a new lens through which faculty and administrators can…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/4/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



Dedication


About the Author


Foreword.Preface


Acknowledgments



A New Paradigm?



The Challenge



The Problem of Scale: Why Innovations Don't Transform Colleges



The Instruction Paradigm: Process Before Purpose



The Route to Transformation: The Learning Paradigm, Old and New



The Foundation: The Learners and the Learning



The Learners



Self-Theories and Academic Motivation



Approaches to Learning



The Learning Environment of the College



The Whole That Determines the Parts



The Cognitive Economy of the Instruction Paradigm College



A Design for Learning



The Cognitive Economy of the Learning Paradigm College



A Learning Paradigm College Promotes Intrinsically Rewarding Goals



A Learning Paradigm College Requires Frequent, Continual, Connected, and Authentic Student Performances



A Learning Paradigm College Provides Consistent, Continual, Interactive Feedback to Students



A Learning Paradigm College Provides a Long Time Horizon for Learning



A Learning Paradigm College Creates Purposeful Communities of Practice



A Learning Paradigm College Aligns All of Its Activities Around the Mission of Producing Student Learning



Transforming the College



Barriers to Transformation



Scaffolding for Change



The Golden Rule


References


Index