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Direct linkMoore, Jessie L. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
Elon University's Center for Engaged Learning facilitates multidisciplinary and multi-institutional scholarship of teaching and learning collaborations that now collectively represent over 200 scholars from over 120 institutions across more than a dozen countries. The collaborations have explored issues of engaged learning, in and beyond the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Learner Engagement, Prior Learning, Student Experience
Jensen, Christopher X. J.; Brooks, Brian; Suh, Keena; Shmulevsky, Allegra Marino; Wynter, Chris – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
Teachers hope that students will take what they have learned and apply it to other contexts. Teachers also assume that students bring to the classroom, prior learning skills and conceptual understanding that form the foundation of new learning. Educational scholars call this import to and export from different learning experiences "transfer…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Transfer of Training, Prior Learning, Learning Experience
Sandeen, Cathy – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
This article provides a brief history of massive open online courses (MOOCs), a snapshot of the rapidly evolving issue of credit recognition, and the integration of MOOCs into traditional degree programs, like the Gates Foundation-funded MOOCs-For-Credit Research Project. The article notes that MOOCs have accelerated innovation, especially in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Class Size
Johnstone, Sally M.; Soares, Louis – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
The 2013 US college/university policy agenda, "Making College Affordable: A Better Agenda for the Middle Class," highlighted the role of developing technologies, institutional curriculum-design processes, and new delivery methods as keys to providing quality, affordable postsecondary education. Competency-based education (CBE) is given…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competency Based Education, Community Colleges, Curriculum Design
Kamenetz, Anya – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
Providing college credit for prior learning is nothing new. The American Council on Education's Credit Recommendation Service (CREDIT), the largest national program making credit recommendations for workplace and other training, dates to 1974. Several colleges that specialize in the practice--Excelsior and Empire State in New York, Thomas Edison…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Student Evaluation, College Credits
Feldon, David F. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
There are two threads linking effective lectures and effective technology use. The first is consideration of what students bring to the table in terms of goals, interests, and prior knowledge. The second is the deliberate management of the opportunities for students to engage with content in order to focus their investment of mental effort on key…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Lecture Method
