2006 Ohio Region Meeting
May 4–6, 2006
Cleveland Marriott East
26300 Harvard Road
Warrensville Heights, OH 44122

CPE Session
2:30-5:30 Thursday May 4, 2006

This workshop is intended for any instructor, including very experienced ones, who in spite of their best efforts can not achieve significant improvements in the students' acquisition and understanding of the substance of the course.

Using L. Dee Fink's Approach to Achieve Significant Learning

Learn which of the following attributes results in significant learning if we try to improve it (Hint: There's only one.).

1. Teaching Style
2. Instructor Personality
3. More Interesting Content
4. Better Students
5. Integrated Course Design

Workshop Contents Include:

1. The Old and New Paradigms of College Teaching
2. A Model of Good Teaching
3. The Four Fundamental Tasks of Teaching
4. The Three Features of Quality Learning Experience
5. Procedures for Getting Better Over Time
6. The Key Components of Course Design
7. The Crucial Necessity of Integrating the Three Key Components
8. Dee Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning
9. Interactive Nature of Significant Learning and its Six Components
10. Audit-ive and Educative Assessment
11. A Holistic View of Active Learning
12. A Structured Sequence for Course Content
13. Design a Course That Promotes Significant Learning-Exercises
    [Please bring a course syllabus and a related statement of course objectives to be used in the hands on part of this workshop.]
14. Financial, Intermediate and Tax Accounting course design examples will be provided by the instructors from their own courses.

Instructors:

Marsha M. Huber, Ph.D, CPA
David K. Dennis, Ph.D, CPA

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