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Peer reviewedMcKenzie, Jim; And Others – Studies in Higher Education, 1985
Course content in professional education is a weak indicator of whether the student will develop professional competence. An independent study course available in London for professionals emphasizes development of cognitive abilities to organize and present complex information and to learn inductively from experience, accurate empathy, proactive…
Descriptors: Competence, Course Content, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Direct linkJohnstone, D. Bruce; Maloney, Patricia A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1998
The learning productivity approach to higher education attempts to gain productivity, not so much by reducing or cheapening inputs but by enhancing higher education's major output: student learning. In the learning productivity perspective, the principal problem is in teaching and learning inefficiencies such as excessive nonlearning time,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Efficiency
