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Five Features of Effective Core Courses
- The Journal of General Education
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 52, Number 3, 2003
- pp. 150-174
- 10.1353/jge.2004.0006
- Article
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Extensive assessment of innovative core courses pointed to five features of the courses that led to students being actively engaged in learning. Faculty teaching the courses created an environment to foster collaborative learning, facilitated student ownership of learning, structured their courses to connect academic ideas with other disciplines and with the real world, evaluated student learning through active experiences, and designed and implemented learning objectives for students to share the experience of the discipline.