High Impact Learning
From Randy Bass
also post course
era
Can we continue to operate on the assumption that the formal
curriculum is the center of the undergraduate experience?
High Impact Practices (National Survey of
Student Engagement NSSE)
- First-year seminars and
experiences
- Learning communities
- Writing intensive courses
- Collaborative assignments
- Undergraduate research
- Global learning/ study abroad
- Internships
- Capstone courses and projects
So, if high impact practices are largely in
the extra curriculum (or co-curriculum), then where are the
low-impact practices?
- formal curriculum = low-impact
practices ? Are we then entering the post-course era?
If the formal curriculum is not where the high impact
experiences are then there are three options (1) Make courses
higher impact (2) Create better connections between courses and
the high impact experiences outside the formal curriculum (3)
Start shifting resources from from the formal curriculum to the
high impact (experiential) curriculum
All of the above