Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning

“This book is ideal for anyone who wants to ensure that learning is the best it can be for all learners and to help prepare students to be active participants in their own learning for life. Jessie Moore identifies six key practices gleaned from multi-institutional research collaboratives and other research and makes a compelling argument for a more intentional inclusion of these practices in the student experience to benefit the learner in current and future learning and in their careers, communities, and civic life. Dr. Moore provides clear and cogent tips for individual faculty and staff and program and institution leaders so you can advance this work on your own campuses.”

Brooke Barnett, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Butler University

“This expertly crafted, succinct guide is full of big insights and useful examples for educators and institutional leaders alike. Moore makes a clear and nuanced case for each of the key practices—not only that research supports its importance, but also that large-scale surveys indicate it is too infrequently or inequitably used—resulting in a compelling call to action. The student stories and practical ideas for faculty and staff, both woven throughout, help make Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning a must-read for anyone interested in improving learning in and beyond the higher education classroom.”

Cassandra Volpe Horii, Associate Vice Provost for Education and Direct of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University

Series Foreword—Jessie L. Moore and Peter Felten

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Key Practices for Fostering High-Quality Engaged Learning in Higher Education

Chapter 2: Acknowledging and Building on Students’ Prior Knowledge and Experiences

Chapter 3: Facilitating Relationships

Chapter 4: Offering Feedback

Chapter 5: Framing Connections to Broader Contexts

Chapter 6: Fostering Reflection on Learning and Self

Chapter 7: Promoting Integration and Transfer of Knowledge and Skills

Chapter 8: Conclusion: Implementing High-Quality Engaged Learning

References

About the Author

Index

Jessie L. Moore

Jessie L. Moore is Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Associate Professor of English: Professional Writing & Rhetoric. She leads planning, implementation, and assessment of the Center’s research seminars, which support multi-institutional inquiry on high-impact pedagogies and other focused engaged learning topics. Her recent research examines transfer of writing knowledge and practices, multi-institutional research and collaborative inquiry, writing residencies for faculty writers, the writing lives of university students, and high-impact pedagogies. She co-edited Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer (2016). She currently serves as the elected Secretary of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.