International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 2, Number 2, July 2008
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Developing Outcomes-based Assessment for Learner-centered Education:
A Faculty Introduction
Amy Driscoll and Swarup Wood
(Stylus, 2007)
Because I have been wading knee-deep through a sea of learning outcomes at my institution, I approached Developing Outcomes-based Assessment for Learner-centered Education with keen interest, hoping to find new ideas, new strategies, new models that could immediately be pressed into action to persuade resistant faculty to give learning outcomes a successful try.
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Michael Potter
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
pottermk@uwindsor.ca
I am a Program Coordinator at the Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Windsor. My academic life began with the study of philosophy at Brandon University and McMaster University, though I shifted to the world of educational development through the latter institution's Centre for Leadership in Learning. My publications include Bertrand Russell's Ethics (2006), as well as entries in the Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy and Dictionary of 20th-Century British Philosophers. Most recently I co-authored, with the inestimable Erika Kustra, the ninth volume in the Society for Teaching and Learning's series of "Green Guides", entitled Leading Effective Discussions. My teaching and learning interests include outcome-based education, authentic assessment, TA development, self-directed methodologies, and philosophy of education.