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Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning - A Resource for More Purposeful, Effective, and Enjoyable College Teaching (Hardcover)
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Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning - A Resource for More Purposeful, Effective, and Enjoyable College Teaching (Hardcover)
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For teachers in higher education who haven't been able to catch up
with developments in teaching and learning, James Davis and Bridget
Arend offer an introduction that focusses on seven coherent and
proven evidence-based strategies. The underlying rationale is to
provide a framework to match teaching goals to distinct ways of
learning, based on well-established theories of learning. The
authors present approaches that readers can readily and safely
experiment with to achieve desired learning outcomes, and build
confidence in changing their methods of teaching. Research on
learning clearly demonstrates that learning is not one thing, but
many. The learning associated with developing a skill is different
from the learning associated with understanding and remembering
information, which in turn is different from thinking critically
and creatively, solving problems, making decisions, or change
paradigms in the light of evidence. Differing outcomes involve
different ways of learning and teaching strategies. The authors
provide the reader with a conceptual approach for selecting
appropriate teaching strategies for different types of content, and
for achieving specific learning objectives. They demonstrate
through examples how a focused and purposeful selection of
activities improves student performance, and in the process makes
for a more effective and satisfying teaching experience. The core
of the book presents a chapter on each of the seven ways of
learning. Each chapter offers a full description of the process,
illustrates its application with examples from different academic
fields and types of institutions, clearly describes the teacher's
facilitation role, and covers assessment and online use. The seven
ways of learning are: Behavioural Learning; Cognitive Learning;
Learning through Inquiry; Learning with Mental Models; Learning
through Groups and Teams; Learning through Virtual Realities; and
Experiential Learning. Along the way, the authors provide the
reader with a basis for evaluating other approaches to teaching and
other learning methodologies so that she or he can confidently go
beyond the "seven ways" to adapt or adopt further strategies. This
is the ideal companion for teachers who are beginning to explore
new ways of teaching, and want to do some serious independent
thinking about learning. The book can also be used to prepare
graduate students for teaching, and will be welcomed by centres for
teaching and learning to help continuing faculty re-examine a
particular aspect of their teaching.
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