{"id":15150,"date":"2011-02-14T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=15150"},"modified":"2011-02-14T19:54:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:54:02","slug":"toward-a-science-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/02\/14\/toward-a-science-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward a science of learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2011\/02\/14\/essay_on_need_for_colleges_to_develop_a_science_of_learning\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Toward a science of learning<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by  Diana Chapman Walsh<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In travels around the  country, I\u2019ve been seeing signs of a trend in higher education that  could have profound implications:<strong> a growing interest in learning about  learning<\/strong>. At colleges and universities that are solidly grounded in a  commitment to teaching, groups of creative faculty are mobilizing around  learning as a collective, and intriguing, intellectual inquiry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This trend embraces the advances being made in the cognitive sciences  and the study of consciousness. It resides in the fast-moving world of  changing information technology and social media. It recognizes and  builds upon new pedagogies and evolving theories of multiple ways of  knowing and learning. It encompasses but transcends the evolution of new  and better measures of student learning outcomes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I know that this essay is loaded with fighting words. But I believe we  need, and are now beginning to see, ways to reframe the problem of  learning outcomes, ways that might galvanize positive energy and support  within a faculty. Imagine \u201cthe administration\u201d saying to faculty, in  effect: We want you to be learning all you can about who your students  are now, how they learn and what they need to know in order to be  successful in a world that is changing faster than we can imagine much  less anticipate. And we want you to have the resources and collegial  connections you will need to make the pursuit of that question an  exciting and fruitful complement to your scholarship. From learning  science there are stunning advances that need translation before they  can be brought successfully into classrooms, findings and possibilities  that at least some faculty might find inherently fascinating if they  were approached right, offered a supportive culture with meaningful  incentives and rewards and scholarly payoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toward a science of learning &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Diana Chapman Walsh In travels around the country, I\u2019ve been seeing signs of a trend in higher education that could have profound implications: a growing interest in learning about learning. 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