- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Foreword: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
- Preface
-
I What We Teach and Why -
1 Why We Need a New Kind of Higher Education -
2 Practical Knowledge -
3 Foundations of the Curriculum -
4 A New Look at General Education -
5 Multimodal Communications and Effective Communication -
6 Formal Analyses and Critical Thinking -
7 Empirical Analyses and Creative Thinking -
8 Complex Systems and Effective Interaction -
9 A New Look at Majors and Concentrations -
II How We Teach -
10 Unlearning to Learn -
11 The Science of Learning: Mechanisms and Principles -
12 Fully Active Learning -
13 A New Team-Teaching Approach to Structured Learning -
14 Teaching from Lesson Plans -
15 The Active Learning Forum -
16 Building Lesson Plans for Twenty-First-Century Active Learning -
17 Assessing Student Learning -
III Creating a New Institution -
18 Building a New Brand -
19 Global Outreach: Communicating a New Vision -
20 An Admissions Process for the Twenty-First Century -
21 Multifaceted Acculturation: An Immersive, Community-Based Multicultural Education -
22 Experiential Learning: The City as a Campus and Human Network -
23 A Global Community by Design -
24 Mental Health Services in a Diverse, Twenty-First-Century University -
25 The Minerva Professional Development Agency -
26 Accreditation: Official Recognition of a New Vision of Higher Education -
27 A Novel Business and Operating Model - Afterword: For the Sake of the World
- Appendix A: Habits of Mind and Foundational Concepts
- Appendix B: Mission, Principles, and Practices
- Editors and Contributors
- Index
The Science of Learning: Mechanisms and Principles
The Science of Learning: Mechanisms and Principles
- Chapter:
- (p.149) 11 The Science of Learning: Mechanisms and Principles
- Source:
- Building the Intentional University
- Author(s):
Stephen M. Kosslyn
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
An enormous amount is now known about how humans process and store information. This chapter organizes that knowledge into a set of 16 principles, which we have used systematically to help students master the material they are taught. The principles are organized under two very general maxims: Think it Through (the more you think something through, paying attention to what you are doing, the more likely you are later to remember it) and Make and Use Associations (associations not only help us organize material so that it is easy to store in memory but also give us the hooks that will allow us later to dig the material out of memory, to recall it). The 16 principles can be invoked in different combinations by using different application techniques, such as mnemonics and explaining material to yourself.
Keywords: science of learning, cognitive principles of learning, evidence-based learning, student-centered learning, pedagogy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Foreword: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
- Preface
-
I What We Teach and Why -
1 Why We Need a New Kind of Higher Education -
2 Practical Knowledge -
3 Foundations of the Curriculum -
4 A New Look at General Education -
5 Multimodal Communications and Effective Communication -
6 Formal Analyses and Critical Thinking -
7 Empirical Analyses and Creative Thinking -
8 Complex Systems and Effective Interaction -
9 A New Look at Majors and Concentrations -
II How We Teach -
10 Unlearning to Learn -
11 The Science of Learning: Mechanisms and Principles -
12 Fully Active Learning -
13 A New Team-Teaching Approach to Structured Learning -
14 Teaching from Lesson Plans -
15 The Active Learning Forum -
16 Building Lesson Plans for Twenty-First-Century Active Learning -
17 Assessing Student Learning -
III Creating a New Institution -
18 Building a New Brand -
19 Global Outreach: Communicating a New Vision -
20 An Admissions Process for the Twenty-First Century -
21 Multifaceted Acculturation: An Immersive, Community-Based Multicultural Education -
22 Experiential Learning: The City as a Campus and Human Network -
23 A Global Community by Design -
24 Mental Health Services in a Diverse, Twenty-First-Century University -
25 The Minerva Professional Development Agency -
26 Accreditation: Official Recognition of a New Vision of Higher Education -
27 A Novel Business and Operating Model - Afterword: For the Sake of the World
- Appendix A: Habits of Mind and Foundational Concepts
- Appendix B: Mission, Principles, and Practices
- Editors and Contributors
- Index
