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Organizing Your Course on I-Learn

Students learn - or fail to learn -- based not only on the material with which they engage, but based on the way that the information is organized as they engage it.  How we organize both the process and the content of our courses, therefore, has a significant impact on student learning. ... [More]
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Principles, Processes and Practices of the BYU-Idaho Learning Model

By Daniel Baird and Devan Barker   There's been a good bit of discussion on campus recently about whether the techniques associated with the Learning Model have come to overshadow its underlying principles. Stated another way, what should be the relationship between the princip... [More]
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Questions, Problems, & Cases: Learning How to Frame Collaboration Activities to Reach Our Objectives

Good questions and problems are critical to engaging students in our courses.  If we can draw upon students' curiosity and their instinctive nature to solve problems learning becomes exciting.  Yet coming up with the good questions is difficult.  It is not easy to find problems... [More]
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“Pastures of Learning”

In the early eighteenth century, the poet and essayist Joseph Addison, drawing on imagery taken from the 23rd psalm, wrote a text comparing the Lord's interactions with us to a shepherd preparing a pasture.  The text to this poem has become a beloved Christian hymn, but as a study in prepar... [More]
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