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INTEGRATIVE LEARNING : What Might We Mean by This? How Might We Get There?

INTEGRATIVE LEARNING : What Might We Mean by This? How Might We Get There?. Presentation by: L. Dee Fink International Consultant in Higher Education. “Innovative Pedagogy & Course Redesign IX” Fairfield University June 3-5, 2009. AAC&U: Liberal Education ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES:

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INTEGRATIVE LEARNING : What Might We Mean by This? How Might We Get There?

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  1. INTEGRATIVE LEARNING:What Might We Mean by This?How Might We Get There? Presentation by: L. Dee Fink International Consultant in Higher Education “Innovative Pedagogy & Course Redesign IX” Fairfield University June 3-5, 2009

  2. AAC&U: Liberal Education • ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Natural and Physical World • Intellectual and Practical Skills • Individual and Social Responsibilities • Integrative Learning • Synthesis and advanced accomplishment across general and specialized studies • Capacity to adapt knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings & questions

  3. Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning

  4. Learning HOW to Learn • Becoming a better student • Inquiring about a subject • Self-directing learners • Foundational Knowledge • Understanding and • remembering: • Information • Ideas • Application • Skills • Thinking: Critical, Creative, & Practical • Managing projects • Caring • Developing new… • Feelings • Interests • Values • INTEGRATION • Connecting: • Ideas • Learning Experiences • Realms of life • Human Dimensions • Learning about: • Oneself • Others Taxonomy of Significant Learning

  5. “INTEGRATIVE LEARNING”: What Might We Mean By This? Building connections, relationships… Among IDEAS Among EXPERIENCES AT COLLEGE Within ME AND MY LIFE EXPERIENCES

  6. “INTEGRATIVE LEARNING”: What Might We Mean By This? Among IDEAS Among EXPERIENCES AT COLLEGE Within ME AND MY LIFE EXPERIENCES

  7. Building Connections Among: IDEAS ABOUT THE WORLD “OUT THERE” ?

  8. Integrative Learning: BUILDING CONNECTIONS… • Among IDEAS • Inter-Disciplinary Learning • Multiple Perspectives on Specific Issues • Among EXPERIENCES AT COLLEGE • Within ME AND MY LIFE EXPERIENCES

  9. Inter-Disciplinary Learning: Discipline X Discipline Y Discipline Z

  10. Integrative Learning: BUILDING CONNECTIONS… • Among IDEAS • Inter-Disciplinary Learning • Multiple Perspectives on Specific Issues • Among EXPERIENCES AT COLLEGE • Within ME AND MY LIFE EXPERIENCES

  11. Multiple Perspectives on an Issue or Question: Perspective “X” Perspective “Y” Issue or Question Perspective “Z”

  12. Integrative Learning: BUILDING CONNECTIONS… • Among IDEAS • Among EXPERIENCES AT COLLEGE • Among Courses • Between Courses and Co-Curricular Experiences • Within ME AND MY LIFE EXPERIENCES

  13. C B A Courses within their Major Other Courses at the University Co-Curricular Activities

  14. Integrative Learning: BUILDING CONNECTIONS… • Among IDEAS • Among EXPERIENCES AT COLLEGE • Within ME AND MY LIFE EXPERIENCES • Old and New Learning • My Current Learning and My Personal, Social, Civic, and Professional Lives

  15. Now: T I M E: Student: In College

  16. Building Connections Within: THE WORLD “OF WHICH I AM A PART” ? ?

  17. Student’s Lives: Past: Present: Future: Individual ? ? Social Current Learning ? Civic ? Professional

  18. Student’s Lives: Past: Present: Future: Individual ? ? Social Current Learning ? Civic ? Professional

  19. D C B A Courses within their Major Other Courses at the University Co-Curricular Activities Other Life Experiences

  20. Integrative Learning: BUILDING CONNECTIONS… • Among IDEAS • Inter-Disciplinary Learning • Multiple Perspectives on Specific Issues • Among EXPERIENCES AT COLLEGE • Among Courses • Between Courses and Co-Curricular Experiences • Within ME AND MY LIFE EXPERIENCES • Old and New Learning; Old and New Selves • My Current Learning and My Individual, Social, Civic, and Professional Lives

  21. INTEGRATIVE LEARNING: What Might It Mean? How Might We Get There?

  22. SITUATION NOW: “Integrative Learning…” • …often involves small numbers of students • …exists in isolation, disconnected from other parts of the curriculum… • Students see their courses as isolated requirements to complete. • -Huber & Hutchings, 2004 • CHALLENGE: • How make Integrative Learning experiences more powerful? • How provide them for ALL students?

  23. Integrative Learning: • How Might We Get there? • Universal Principle: • ALL students must have multiple opportunities to… • make connections (i.e., to integrate), • reflect, • dialogue, and • get feedback.

  24. Integrative Learning: • How Might We Get there? STUDENT Learning Experiences AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ORGANIZATION FACULTY

  25. Integrative Learning: • How Might We Get there? STUDENT Learning Experiences AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ORGANIZATION FACULTY

  26. Student Learning Experiences • Wider range of content and experiences in individual courses • Build connections and relationships throughout all courses & experiences • Dialogue with others about connections • Frequent opportunities to reflect • Key Tool: Learning Portfolios

  27. St1 St2 Teacher/Coach “TAKING CHARGE OF ONE’S OWN LEARNING”

  28. St1 St2 Teacher/Coach ? Meta-Learner:

  29. St1 St2 Own Learning/ Development Teacher/Coach Own Knowing/Beliefs Own Thinking Own Performance Own Caring/Values ? Meta-Learner: One Who Takes Charge of their…

  30. St1 St2 Own Learning/ Development Teacher/Coach Own Knowing/Beliefs Own Thinking Own Performance Own Caring/Values ? Meta-Learner: One Who Takes Charge of their…

  31. Students’ Epistemological Beliefs • Beliefs about: KNOWLEDGE • Content of Knowledge • K = Discrete bits of Information K=Integrated concepts • 2. Certainty of Knowledge • K=certain & unambiguous K=tentative & subject to change • Source of Knowledge • K = comes from an external authority K = constructed by oneself • Beliefs about: LEARNING • Ability to Improve as a Learner • L = Ability to learn is innate & fixed L = Can be improved • 5. Speed and Ease of Learning • L = Quickly, or don’t get it at all L = You have to keep working at it

  32. NOTE: The statement about the epistemological beliefs of students in the preceding slide came from the following source: Source: C. Boden, An Exploratory Study Of The Relationship Between Epistemological Beliefs And Self-Directed Learning Readiness. Doctoral dissertation, Kansas State University, 2005. Based on: Schommer, M. (1990). The effects of beliefs about the nature of knowledge on comprehension. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 498-504.

  33. Student Learning Experiences • Wider range of content and experiences in individual courses • Build connections and relationships throughout the course • Dialogue with others about connections • Frequent opportunities to reflect • Key Tool: Learning Portfolios

  34. Re-Shaping STUDENT Culture: • Establish Expectations • Campus publicity • New and different kind of orientation to college • Provide Support • Assess and Reward Course-Based and Year-to-year Learning Portfolios

  35. Learning Portfolios: KEY QUESTIONS • WHAT did you learn? • HOW did you learn? • What helped and didn’t help you learn? • What does this tell you about: YOURSELF AS A LEARNER? About the NATURE OF LEARNING? • SIGNIFICANCE FOR YOU, of what you learned? • Plan for FUTURE LEARNING: • WHAT ELSE do you want or plan to learn? • HOW will you learn that?

  36. Co-Curriculum (student affairs) Students Build a Learning Portfolio Student’s Time in College Curriculum (formal coursework) LEARNING PORTFOLIOS: Helping Students Take Charge of Their Own Learning

  37. Integrative Learning: • How Might We Get there? STUDENT Learning Experiences AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ORGANIZATION FACULTY

  38. ORGANIZATION Needs to… • Set “Integrative Learning” as an Institution-Wide Learning Goal (IW-LG) • Map that kind of learning into the curriculum • Provide for both: • Faculty Development • Student Development

  39. MAPPING IW-LG’s INTO THE CURRICULUM Institution-Wide Learning Goals: Courses: Special Learning Opportunities:

  40. ORGANIZATION Needs to… • Set “Integrative Learning” as an Institution-Wide Learning Goal (IW-LG) • Map that kind of learning into the curriculum • Provide for both: • Faculty Development • Student Development

  41. Integrative Learning: • How Might We Get there? STUDENT Learning Experiences AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FACULTY ORGANIZATION

  42. FACULTY Need to Learn… • About Integrative Learning • How to design specific kinds of learning into their COURSES • Learn pedagogical tools for promoting specific kinds of learning • How to construct CURRICULA focused on specific kinds of learning

  43. Integrative Learning: • How Might We Get there? STUDENT Learning Experiences AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FACULTY ORGANIZATION

  44. SUMMARY

  45. INTEGRATIVE LEARNING: • What Might We Mean By This? • Learning in which students build connections… • Among IDEAS • Among LEARNING EXPERIENCES IN COLLEGE • Within THEMSELVES AND DIFFERENT PARTS OF THEIR LIVES • How Might We Get There? • STUDENTS: Become Aware of Themselves as Learners and take responsibility for their own learning • ORGANIZATION: Set “Integration” as an IW-LG and map it into the curriculum • FACULTY: Learn about Integrative Learning, Designing Courses, and Designing Curricula

  46. THE END! Higher Education: Let’s make it all that it can be and needs to be!

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