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