Connecting Learning Across the Institution

Part I: Setting the Context EDITOR'S NOTES 1 Pamela L. Eddy 1. Integration of Learning Model: How College Students IntegrateLearning 7 James P. Barber Knowing how students connect disparate information andmeaningfully synthesize concepts helps us understand how to improvestudent learning. 2. Faculty as Border Crossers: A Study of Fulbright Faculty19 Pamela L. Eddy Faculty members, as adult learners, incorporate new globalexperiences into their underlying schemas that may ultimatelyresult in transformational learning. 3. Civic Engagement and Organizational Learning Strategies forStudent Success 31 Tami L. Moore, Jesse P. Mendez This chapter focuses on the organizational learning necessary toestablish and maintain institutional supports for postsecondarydegree attainment. Part II: Examples From Stakeholder Groups 4. "Orthogonality" in Learning and Assessment41 David Leslie Orthogonality can provide a framework to help clarify whatstakeholders think about learning in college and how we assessoutcomes. 5. Promoting High-Impact Student Learning: Connecting KeyComponents of the Collegiate Experience 51 Matthew Wawrzynski, Roger Baldwin This chapter examines the collegiate learning environmentregarding the ways in which high-impact educational practices canhelp students connect their learning. 6. Developing Learning in Faculty: Seeking Expert AssistanceFrom Colleagues 63 Todd Zakrajsek Interprofessionalism, seeking out advice from other facultymembers in their areas of expertise, aids faculty development andprovides support to faculty. 7. Blended Learning as Transformational Institutional Learning75 Kim VanDerLinden This chapter presents a case regarding an institution'ssupport of faculty development to institute blended learning andhow these efforts contribute to organizational learning. Part III: Planning for the Future 8. Constructing an Overarching Framework forLearning--Connecting the Dots 87 Marilyn J. Amey An integrative organizational framework highlights connectionsbetween learning theories applied at different organizationallevels and how these connections lead to organizationallearning. 9. Finding and Fostering Learning: What College and UniversityLeaders Need to Know and What They Can Do 95 Anna Neumann, Liza Bolitzer College leaders oversee institutional structures and processesthat ultimately support learning, for students, for faculty, andfor the institution. This chapter provides leaders with strategiesto best support learning. 10. Bringing It All Together Through Group Learning 107 Shannon M. Chance This chapter provides an outline of key issues for collegeleaders and faculty to consider as they engage in connectinglearning across the institution. INDEX 121