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The Learner-Centered Curriculum Design and Implementation

by: Cullen, Roxanne; Harris, Michael; Hill, Reinhold R.; Weimer, Maryellen

ISBN: 9781118049556 | 1118049551

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: 3/20/2012

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

Most of the scholarship on learner-centeredness is focused on individual classroom pedagogy, but this book takes learner-centeredness beyond the classroom and asks academic leaders to consider the broader implications of making their institutions fully learner-centered. Systemic change is needed, and curriculum is at the heart of what higher education does. To truly effect change, the curriculum needs to be examined and aligned with learner-centered practices. In this book the authors offer both design specifications for a learner-centered appr... MOREoach to curriculum as well as practical recommendations for implementation and assessment. The book covers the need for redesigning curriculum, curriculum design in the instructional paradigm, learner-centered design in practice, implementation, program assessment (including a helpful rubric for this), innovating through technology, and learning spaces that support learner-centered curricula.

Praise for The Learner-Centered Curriculum "Cullen, Harris, and Hill provide a clear and practical framework for addressing the root of the problems of todays universities. The authors provide a lucid, actionable, and evidence-based prescription for building an integrated learning system to replace the hodgepodge of miscellany that we have inherited. They illustrate the kind of conversations and transformations that could raise the value of and change the prospects for higher education."-John Tagg, author, The Learning Paradigm College "This book offers a powerful, realistic, and much-needed plan for changing how learning happens in higher education. Anyone concerned about improving teaching and students learning needs to read this book!"-Terry Doyle, author, Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment "To help achieve the imperative to make our universities more learner-centered, the authors focus on curriculum redesign and offer a solid theoretical approach combined with applied skills that institutional leaders and faculty can use to attain their goals. Shared governance, autonomous learning, assessment, technology, and physical space are among the elements discussed in this excellent book that universities will need to consider when developing a new curriculum that is more learner-centered."-Jolene Koester, president, California State University, Northridge "Cullen, Harris, and Hill provide a thought-provoking resource with the compelling advantages and frameworks to create twenty-first-century student-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered, and community-centered curriculum. This is a must-read for faculty and administrators committed to transforming their curriculum in order to educate better prepared graduates."-Deborah L. Ford, chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside "This is the book that I have been looking for. Written by three leaders who have done the heavy lifting of leading real change, its a book for every academic leader who understands that innovation is essential to the future of higher education."-Earl H. Potter, III, president, St. Cloud State University

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
About the Authors	p. xxi
Why Redesign Curriculum?	p. 1
Curriculum Design in the Instructional Paradigm	p. 23
The Learner-Centered Curriculum	p. 45
Leading Curricular Implementation	p. 73
Learner-Centered Design in Practice	p. 105
Assessment Aimed at Learne... MOREr Autonomy	p. 127
Innovating Through Technology	p. 159
Learning Spaces That Support Learner-Centered Curricula	p. 183
Closing Thoughts	p. 209
References	p. 211
Index	p. 227
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Roxanne Cullen is a professor of English at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan, where she has also acted as associate vice president for academic affairs.

Michael Harris is the chancellor of Indiana University-Kokomo. He and Roxanne Cullen coauthored Leading the Learner-Centered Campus: An Administrative Framework for Improving Student Learning Outcomes from Jossey-Bass.

Reinhold R. Hill is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Governors State Universityin Illinois.

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