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"Integrative learning is an understanding and a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum and co-curriculum, from making simple connections among ideas and experiences to synthesizing and transferring learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus." - AACU
This is a guide to resources about integrative learning. This page lists the resources most relevant to the work of the DCCCD Core Committees. Explore the other pages in this guide for more resource about integrative learning. Use the "Suggest a Link" feature on each page to suggest additional resources.
"Integrative learning" definition source= Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU). "Integrative Learning Value Rubric." VALUE: Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education. Web. 21 Oct. 2009.
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Books from the DCCCD Libraries
- Why Do I Have to Take This Course? - Robert Shoenberg
Call Number: RL:Main Collection - LB 2343.3 .S56 2005A practical guide written for undergraduate students, to educate them about what really matters in college. - High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter - George D. Kuh
Call Number: RL:Main Collection - LC 3727 .K84 2008Educational Practices that research has demonstrated has significant impact on student success. - Revising General Education - And Avoiding the Potholes: A Guide for Curricular Change - Paul L. Gaston and Jerry G. Gaff
Call Number: RL:Main Collection - LC 980 .G37 2009 - Purposeful Pathways: Helping Students Achieve Key Learning Outcomes - Andrea Leskes and Ross MillerCall Number: RL:Main Collection - LB 2322.2 .L47 2006A report on the practices that advance four selected liberal education outcomes; inquiry, civic, global, and integrative learning… Readers will find numerous resources helpful in their curricular planning.
- Learning is about making connections - K. Patricia CrossCall Number: EC:Main Collection - LB 1032 .C76 1999Also available in the BH:Teaching&Learning Cntr and the NL:Professional Library.
Online Resources
Most of these are free resources, but a couple are from DCCCD library databases. DCCCD library databases are only available to DCCCD students, faculty and staff. Login is required. Contact your campus library for assistance.
- DCCCD Significant Learning Experiences
A Blog of Insights and Ideas for instructors, course designers, and librarians. Created specifically for the DCCCD Core Committees. To post to the blog, send your posting to garyduke.siglearningx@blogger.com. The subject line will be the post title and the text of your e-mail will be the text of the blog. You'll need to include your name in the entry (unless you want to be anonymous). - International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning is an open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year. An international vehicle for articles, essays, and discussions about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process.
- Diversity & Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures Publication by the AAC&U
- Liberal Education Liberal Education expresses the voices of educators, faculty, and administrators in colleges and universities nationwide who are working to enrich liberal learning and undergraduate education. AAC&U's award-winning journal is the national forum about liberal education--a forum addressing teaching and learning, leadership, faculty innovation, and institutional change all in the service of improving undergraduate education.
- Peer review : emerging trends and key debates in undergraduate education Publication of AAC&U. Integrative learning is discussed in many issues. The Summer 2005 issue focuses on integrative learning and the Fall 2007 issue focuses on faculty development
- High Expectations High Support 2008 CCCSSE findings
- Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education by the Association of College and Research Libraries
- Integrative Learning: Mapping the Terrain Readers will find a map of the terrain of integrative learning on which promising new developments in undergraduate education can be cultivated, learned from, and built upon.
- End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com Required reading for Tier 2 committee.
- Pedagogy Of Poverty Required reading for the Tier 2 committee
- College Learning for the New Global Century Published through the LEAP initiative of AAC&U, this document spells out the essential aims, learning outcomes, and guiding principles for a twenty-first-century college
education. - Our Students' Best Work: A Framework for Accountability Worthy of our Mission A statement designed to help campuses respond to calls for greater accountability in ways that strengthen as well as document the quality of student learning in college.
- What Faculty Can Do This brief occasional paper by Jillian Kinsey gives insight into six conditions that matter to student success and what faculty can do to foster student learning.
- "Liberal Education and Integrative Learning"
DCCCD Significant Learning Experiences Blog
A Blog of Insights and Ideas for LEADING LEARNERS ... instructors, course designers, and librarians.
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