Concerned by ongoing debates about higher education that talk past one another, the authors of this book show how to move beyond these and other obstacles to improve the student learning experience and further successful college outcomes.

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction1. Landscape of Learning Initiatives 2. Shifting Paradigms 3. Aligning for Learning 4. Applying the Paradigm to Curriculum Mapping 5. Applying the Paradigm to Assignment Design 6. Perceived Barriers in the Learning Systems Paradigms 7. Reframing Academic Quality Appendices References

Natasha A. Jankowski serves as the Executive Director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and Associate Professor with the department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author, along with her NILOA colleagues, Degrees That Matter: Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm and the book Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education. She loves all things assessment. David W. Marshall