At 11:30 03-10-1998 -0400, replying to Stephanie, Dick wrote:
>>My name is Stephanie Ranta and I am a graduate student at Michigan State
>>University. I've been reading the list with great interest but have
>>noticed that very few of the postings have directly related to higher
>>education.
>
>***Agree - few seem to see the connection.
There are some schools that have includede LOs in the curricula. But,
there are only very few experiences about "changing schols ( or parts of
schools") to become LOs". In my opinion, this is a much more interesting
experience. I am conducting one experience of this type. I will describe
that experience, and ask for your commentes, suggestions and help in a
different post. By now, only some comments :
>>I'm currently researching the idea of how one can create a learning
>>organization on a college campus. For example, we know that learning
>>occurs outside the classroom and that students learn things that an
>>administrator might not want them to learn ie) how to sneak beer into the
>>dorms.
>
>>How do we create a LO outside the classroom?
>
>***Believe we should start where the institution's "production function"
>is -- IN the classroom.
I agree with that, but I believe that this will change the classroam, and
imply a lot of activities out of the classroam.
>Learning (course) content and teaching process
>are unquestionably the instructor's responsibility.
I would rephrase that : Defining objectives, defining the main lines of
course content and managing the teaching processe are unquestionably the
instructor's responsability".
If one begins to create a learning organization in the classroam, I think
that detailled parts of the content can be defined by the students, and
that part of the teaching can be delegated to students. They will teach
subjects that they have learned. They will create teaching materiails that
can be reused by other students or the teatcher, in the same or in
following years.
>>How do we involve
>>unionized secretarial staff, administrators, and in general, all the
>>people who work at an institution to participate in a LO?
>
>***Again - begin with the FEW faculty who care, run pilots using LPIA, and
>roll out when the results show that this approach works -- or so goes the
>design hypothesis for LPIA. Other members of the institution will get
>involved when faculty show the leadership needed.
I don't know LPIA. Dick, can you give some more information on that,
please ?
Regards
Artur
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