The ICT Blog
What is Unique About Fink’s Course Design Process?
It’s been over 20 years since L. Dee Fink published Creating Significant Learning Experiences, a book that formally introduced the Taxonomy of Significant Learning and the related Integrated Course...
Seven Ways of Learning and the Importance of Process
When Jim Davis and I were approached about writing a second edition of our book, Seven Ways of Learning, we asked some hard questions. Can we still justify the same seven ways of learning? Could we...
Crafting an AI Policy Statement for Your Syllabus
As we get ready for another academic year, we once again find ourselves faced with new challenges. This fall, many of us are revisiting the syllabus policies for generative Artificial Intelligence...
Strategies for Encouraging Self-Directed Learning
Today’s college graduates must be able to think critically and creatively, and be able to communicate and collaborate effectively. Twenty-first century teaching and learning must be focused on more...
What is the impact of the Taxonomy of Significant Learning?
How much impact has the work of Dee Fink and the Taxonomy of Significant Learning had on higher education teaching and learning? A quick google search for just the term, "Taxonomy of Significant...
Our love/hate relationship with learning outcomes
Recently, I've been talking at conferences and campuses about intentional course design - the kind of course design that taps into our passions and reminds us why we love teaching. Any good course...
Bringing joy back into teaching this year
Emergency remote teaching, social justice awakenings, efforts to quiet diversity and equity efforts, accountability demands, questions about the very value of higher education, and now...generative...
How do learning outcomes make you feel?
How do you feel when it's time to talk about or write your course learning outcomes? Do you feel excited? Energized and ready to pull out a list of measurable learning outcome verbs? Or, do you take...
Productivity Hacks for Academics
The start of a new year is a great time for introspection about our habits and processes, and for adjusting or renewing our patterns. Academics have unique challenges in terms of work productivity....