If we are serious about dramatically increasing success rates in higher education, bringing millions of people from the margin of America's economy to its mainstream, America must adopt radically new understandings of effective teaching and learning in the 21st century. This book will: define and describe new thinking about the causes of school failure; discuss its social, civic, and economic consequences; and give the reader the tools and the understanding to dosomething about it. Specifically, the author will discuss three major ways that the orthodox college model blocks access to opportunity and wastes talent for many: Employing a teaching-learning model which favors one dominant learning style, resource allocation template, and attendance pattern over many others; Reluctance to validate and recognize learning that occurs outside of college; and Employing transfer policies which consistently discount earned credit from other qualified sources, adding time, costs, and frustration to degree attainment. Later chapters will describe a new paradigm that uses technology and online tools to capitalize on the capacity of every learner, personalizing education to meet their needs. From Nicholas Negroponte's One computer for every child effort, to Second Life, iTunes University, games, simulations, and the open source movement, Web 2.0 is creating a personalized campus and classroom atthe fingertips of every learner.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-53807-4
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 12/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés