Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2008
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2008) 26
doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0026.021
Abstract
Integrative learning challenges faculty developers to facilitate integrative and connective experiences not only for students, but for faculty as well. For many faculty, curricular requirements impede connective teaching, and the widespread assumption that connectivity must be taught on the course level also limits their ability to enrich students’ learning through diverse perspectives and interactions. Nexia is an approach to this problem based on the concept of ad hoc connectivity, or small-scale, focused, short-term connections that allow students from two or more courses to interact around points of interest to both classes. By releasing connective teaching from expensive curricular constraints, the Nexia approach enables faculty and students to share interdisciplinary, integrative learning experiences within existing curricula.
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License: CC BY-NC-ND