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How Learning Works: 7 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching

Susan Ambrose, PhD 
Professor of Education and History 
Senior Vice Provost for Educational Innovation 
Northeastern University 

 


Effective teaching is a complex and highly contextualized activity that requires an understanding of how learning works, because “learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks.” (Herbert A. Simon)  In order to influence learning, faculty must then design the conditions that will drive student thinking and behavior in the appropriate direction. In this session, we will focus on seven learning principles and their application.

Learning Goals: 

  1. Identify one of the principles with which they resonate, explain it to someone who was not in the session, and provide an example from their own experience as a teacher or learner
  2. Identify one of the principles that they need to further explore because it potentially explains a difficulty that students, or the participant, is currently experiencing/has experienced

PowerPoint Slides: Susan Ambrose, PhD How Learning Works: 7 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching - 11/29/18 - SEAS LInc Talk 

 

Biography: 

Dr. Susan Ambrose, Professor of Education and History, is Senior Vice Provost for Educational Innovation at Northeastern University. She is an internationally recognized expert in college-level teaching and learning, and has conducted workshops and seminars for faculty and administrators throughout the United States and around the world. She focuses on translating research to practice in the design of curricula, courses and educational experiences for both undergraduate and graduate students. She earned her Doctorate of Arts in history from Carnegie Mellon University, and served as Associate Provost for Education, Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, and a Teaching Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon before joining Northeastern in August 2012.

Dr. Ambrose is co-author of four books, most recently How Learning Works: Seven Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching (Jossey-Bass, 2010), which has been widely praised for integrating fundamental research in the cognitive sciences and practical application. The book has been translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Italian and Arabic. She has also published articles in The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Quality Approaches in Higher Education, and the Journal of Engineering Education, as well as numerous chapters in edited volumes. She served as a Visiting Scholar for the American Society of Engineering Education and the National Science Foundation (1998-2001) and was named an American Council on Education fellow (1999-2000). Dr. Ambrose’s research has been funded by the NSF, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the ALCOA Foundation, the Eden Hall Foundation, the Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, and the Davis Educational Foundation. 

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