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Lattuca focuses on Joe Marren's arguments regarding constructivist pedagogy and tries to answer Marren's questions about the role of the instructor and students in this course, useful assignments, and how to assess student learning. Based on Marren's arguments, Lattuca addresses some common misperceptions about the approach to teaching and learning.
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The Constructivist Pedagogy We're Looking For
In the course I teach on Curricula in Higher Education, I tell my students that part of curriculum design is re-design. In teaching a course, we learn how to improve it. Especially the first time we teach a course. Joe Marren has taken the notion of improvement very seriously. Preparing to teach a course for the second time, he has thought through course assignments, talked with students who took the course the first time to gather more information about their experiences, and tried to figure out how best to assess student achievement. In my response to Joe's essay, I will focus on his arguments regarding constructivist pedagogy and try to answ...
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