Learning matters ; the transformation of U.S. Higher Education

• Date de parution : 05/11/2012
• Editeur : Archives Contemporaines
• EAN : 9782813000873
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : 314
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Anglais
• Thème : Sciences humaines en langue anglaise
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

Higher education in the United States of America, considered by many to set a worldwide standard for broad access and high levels of excellence, has for many decades seen massive changes in its approaches to teaching and learning. More than 4,000 US colleges and universities have met the... Voir plus

Higher education in the United States of America, considered by many to set a worldwide standard for broad access and high levels of excellence, has for many decades seen massive changes in its approaches to teaching and learning. More than 4,000 US colleges and universities have met the challenge by analyzing major changes in student populations and introducing new instructional techniques that recognize the primacy of learning over teaching. This seemingly innocent but powerful transformation, acknowledging that teaching only matters as a means to the real end - learning - is powering a pedagogical revolution. Research into how students learn and how to help them learn took its place alongside traditional academic research. The resulting new pedagogical architecture now embraces every dimension of US higher education.