Discipline-Based Education Research Group
Date of this Version
11-18-2011
Document Type
Article
Citation
Presented to UNL Discipline-Based Education Research Group, 2011.
Abstract
• New General Education Program (Dec. 2007)
• Focus on Student Learning Outcomes
• Improve education
– Assessment
– Faculty reflections
• “ACE places responsibility for the success of the program with the faculty, who create, govern, manage and teach the courses.”
– From “Hallmarks of ACE” at ace.unl.edu/aboutace.shtml
• Skills
– Writing (ACE 1)
– Communication (ACE 2)
– Math / Reasoning (ACE 3)
• Knowledge
– Scientific Method (ACE 4)
– Humanities (ACE 5) – Social Sciences (ACE 6)
– Arts (ACE 7)
• Responsibilities
– Ethics / Civics / Stewardship (ACE 8)
– Diversity (ACE 9)
• Integrate
– Generate a creative or scholarly product (ACE 10)
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Comments
Copyright 2011, Eric Malina.