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Like the SBG stuff from Shawn Cornally (think, thank, thunk). Be nice to see more of this in higher ed. "Probably the biggest gains came after we let students start developing learning objectives based on the standards. We would actually give the students the standards and ask them, 'What would you have to be able to do show mastery of this?' The students themselves developed learning objectives. The key point is it became student friendly [in] language."

"Holman also asked students to read "Sermons For Grumpy Campers," by Richard Felder, a graduate level professor who never lectured. In it, Felder describes his students grumbling that they hated group work and that it was his job to teach them, not the other way around. Holman's students said the complaints sounded like they came from kindergarteners or themselves and were amazed to find out the complainers were graduate level engineering students. "