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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 Dallas College Libraries

Why Do I Have to Take This Course? by Robert Shoenberg
Call Number: RL:Main Collection - LB 2343.3 .S56 2005
A 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 by George D. Kuh
Call Number: RL:Main Collection - LC 3727 .K84 2008
Educational Practices that research has demonstrated has significant impact on student success.
Revising General Education - And Avoiding the Potholes: A Guide for Curricular Change by Paul L. Gaston and Jerry G. Gaff
Call Number: RL:Main Collection - LC 980 .G37 2009
Purposeful Pathways: Helping Students Achieve Key Learning Outcomes by Andrea Leskes and Ross Miller
Call Number: RL:Main Collection - LB 2322.2 .L47 2006
A 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 by K. Patricia Cross
Call Number: EC:Main Collection - LB 1032 .C76 1999
Also 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.

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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"

Dallas College Significant Learning Experiences Blog

A Blog of Insights and Ideas for LEADING LEARNERS ... instructors, course designers, and librarians.