Learning Matters

The Transformation of U.S. Higher Education

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Learning Matters

The Transformation of U.S. Higher Education

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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. Redesigning and transforming the way colleges and universities teach their students has been likened to reconstructing an airplane while it remains aloft. 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. The Learning Revolution in US higher education began when World War II veterans flooded university classrooms, soon to be followed by their children, the American «Baby Boom.» Overwhelming numbers of new students from new kinds of backgrounds flooded colleges and universities, forcing professors to rethink how they went about teaching these new generations. To handle the numbers, many new universities were created, and many established centers for teaching excellence to help professors adapt to new populations with new techniques. In the 1990s, higher education further professionalized the teaching craft via the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Research into how students learn and how to help them learn took its place alongside traditional academic research. Aided by a wave of new technologies, teaching centers and the scholarship of teaching and learning are transforming the university classroom as well as many new venues outside the classroom where learning now takes place. The resulting new pedagogical architecture now embraces every dimension of US higher education.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. 1
A Note on Terminology. 3
Introduction - From Training Clergy to Creating the Future: The Evolution of Higher Education in the United States. 5
PART 1: The GIs and their Babies: New Challenges to Higher Education in the United States.
Chapter 1: The Coming of the New Majority. 15
Chapter 2: Finance, Politics, and the Changing Fiscal Nature of Higher Education. 21
PART II: The Call for Transformation: Serving the New Majority.
Chapter 3: Coordinating Higher Education in the United States. 43
Chapter 4: The First Major Challenge for Modern Higher Education Pedagogy: Increased Access. 57
Chapter 5: Other Major Challenges to Higher Education Pedagogy. 73
Chapter 6: The Curriculum as Essential Framework for Pedagogy. 101
PART III: Tools for Transformation: The New Pedagogical Architecture.
Chapter 7: Pedagogical Architecture for Higher Education. 115
Chapter 8: Pedagogical Architecture as Faculty Development: Centers for Teaching Excellence. 145
Chapter 9: Pedagogical Architecture as Strategy: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 157
Chapter 10: Pedagogical Architecture as Physical Tools: Technology and Digital Learning. 173
Chapter 11: The Further Evolution of SoTL: The Scholarship of Learning. 199
Conclusion: The Reluctant Revolution. 211
APPENDICES.
Appendix 1: Acronyms. 225
Appendix 2: Glossary of Technical Vocabulary. 229
Appendix 3: Chronology of Significant Events in the Development of U.S. Higher Education and its Pedagogy. 239
Appendix 4: Theodore Hesburgh Awards for Faculty Development. 245
References. 249
Endnotes. 269
Index. 291

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Peter Sloat Hoff

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309
Number of pages
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