Among the most fundamental promises education makes is this: What you learn here, on campus, will help you when you’re out there, in the world. Learning researchers call this far transfer, describing the process by which students take a skill and apply it in another class, in an internship, or even in their careers after college. But what does it look like when that far transfer is part of the class itself? In community-based learning, professors embed their courses in real-world contexts, cr...
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Among the most fundamental promises education makes is this: What you learn here, on campus, will help you when you’re out there, in the world. Learning researchers call this far transfer, describing the process by which students take a skill and apply it in another class, in an internship, or even in their careers after college. But what does it look like when that far transfer is part of the class itself? In community-based learning, professors embed their courses in real-world contexts, cr...
When you become a teacher, you commit to a life of learning—not just for your students, but for yourself. You can feel totally comfortable and confident in your teaching practices, and then suddenly some new technology or some new group of students comes along and upends everything you think you know about education. In those moments, instructors often seek out resources and conversations with peers and students to think through how they might adapt their teaching. But actually giving up a be...
Designed for Learning
Among the most fundamental promises education makes is this: What you learn here, on campus, will help you when you’re out there, in the world. Learning researchers call this far transfer, describing the process by which students take a skill and apply it in another class, in an internship, or even in their careers after college. But what does it look like when that far transfer is part of the class itself? In community-based learning, professors embed their courses in real-world contexts, cr...
