Response To Two Problems By Dee Fink

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The book is a response to two problems Dee Fink observes in current college teaching: 1) the problem of teaching that does not go beyond an “understand-and-learn” model and 2) the problem of teachers not knowing what new methods to implement that go beyond the standard models of lecturing and leading discussions (xi). The goal of the book is to improve teaching practices in higher education through significant learning, integrated course design and through better organizational support. To accomplish this task, she provides data that suggests that redesigning courses is the key to overcoming the problems experienced from old models of teaching, such as poor knowledge retention by students (28).
Fink notes that the question most often raised