Bain, Ken: Constructive Alignment: Fostering Deep Learning

Ken Bain, Vice Provost for Instruction, Professor of History, and Director of the Teaching and Learning Resource Center at Montclair State University, talks about constructive alignment that fosters deep learning, i.e., coordinating learning objectives, the learning environment, and assessment procedures to foster deep learning. Bain's award-winning book, What the Best College Teachers Do (Harvard, 2004), serves as a springing-off point as he reminds the audience that the best teaching is about deep learning. He discusses three types of learners from a study - surface learner, deep learner, and strategic learner; and the conditions in classroom that may be responsible for deep learning.

Internationally recognized for his insights into teaching and learning, and for a fifteen-year study of what the best educators do, Dr. Bain has presented invited workshops or lectures at nearly two hundred universities and events throughout the world. Professor Bain is introduced by Associate Provost Dennis Slavin.

The event takes place on March 31, 2008, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-250.