An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses

"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