CPE Session 28: Sunday, August 5, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Creating Significant Learning in the Classroom

(Accounting)

Description/Objectives:
During this half-day session (please see related afternoon session-CPE Session 38), you will gain a clear perspective on how to improve student learning in your accounting classes. This session explains the reason for a change from a teaching to a student-learning paradigm using the six-fold Dee Fink taxonomy of critical learning elements. Two accounting professors have adopted this taxonomy to redesign their accounting classes in order to create "significant" learning in their classrooms.

In this session, you will be equipped with the knowledge and tools to be able to redesign your accounting. Such knowledge will be easily transferable from the session to your classroom. This workshop links to AACSB's mission to advance the level of student learning through the creation of learning experiences (Standard 15).

In this session, you will learn: (1) why we need to pursue a better model of learning. We will introduce a new taxonomy of significant learning which integrates six levels of student learning, and discuss why it works, (2) How to redesign your classes to formulate appropriate learning goals, (3) How to develop learning experiences to support those learning goals.

This session can be taken in conjunction with CPE Session 38 – "Are They Really Learning?" or independently.

Presenters:
David K. Dennis, Otterbein, College
Marsha Huber, Otterbein College

Sponsor: Teaching and Curriculum Section.

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