Creating Significant Learning Experiences, Revised and Updated

NOTE TO UPDATED EDITION

It has been ten years since the original publication of this book. When writing a book like this, you are inclined to believe the ideas have some value but you don’t know whether others will also value the ideas until you see how they respond to the book. It has been extremely rewarding and humbling to see how widely the book has been accepted and used. Reports from individual professors on the impact of these ideas have been very heartwarming.

Part of this success, of course, can be attributed to several changes that have been occurring in higher education. In the United States—and even more so in some other countries—civic and higher education leaders have felt a growing concern that even when students graduate from ...