For faculty, teachers, administrators, and students, Nygaard (management education, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) et al. assemble 17 chapters that address ways higher education curriculum can be centered on student learning and how and why student outcomes can be improved. An international group of scholars of education, instructional design, and various disciplines in higher education present studies in which curriculum has been developed to mix learning, teaching, and assessment methods to improve outcomes in doctoral studies, math, and teacher education, as well as examples of using e-portfolios, pedagogical progression, student conceptions of learning, analogical learning, reflective teaching, teamwork, assessment centers, art in a research methodology class, learning outside the classroom, and curriculum maps. The book came out of an international symposium arranged by the Learning in Higher Education association held on Aegina Island, Greece. There is no index. Distributed in North America by ISBS. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Improving Students' Learning Outcomes is a book for educators and administrators in higher education who have a genuine interest in developing an inspired curriculum centered on student learning. Integrating theoretical perspectives with empirical practice, researchers and practitioners from four continents discuss why and how students' learning outcomes can be improved. The book offers new theoretical approaches to the understanding of students' learning outcomes, as well as normative implications and inspiring examples from people professionally engaged in teaching, learning, and assessment-practices. Editors Claus Nygaard and Clive Holtham are the founders of the international academic association LIHE (Learning in Higher Education). The book came out of an international symposium held on Aegina Island, Greece, arranged by LIHE.
