014: Project-Based Learning

03/05/18 • 22 min

Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt

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"really there are few people out there who have tried to nail this thing down because it is kind of an open-ended discussion about “What constitutes experiential learning and who owns that?” Project based learning on the other hand from my perspective is, “The student owns that.”"

"I go into the lab and I do assignment one and two and three and four, and I have a great experience and I’m learning from my hands-on experience. But that’s not at all what we’re talking about when we say project-based learning. "

"they put together a proposal. And you’re not going to tell them what they’re going to learn. You’re not going to tell them what they should care about. You’re just going to tell them, “What is it that you want to learn?” And then, “How are you going to learn it?” And “We’ll help you."

"our new professionals need to understand that it’s likely that not only may they change jobs, but they may do things that are completely different in 10 years after graduation from where they start after graduation."

"once we get out of the way, students constantly blow our minds and amaze us."

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"once we get out of the way, students constantly blow our minds and amaze us."

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013: Storytelling

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"about stories and why they’re important and how they’re passed on. And it became really an obsession with me that it’s an important part of communication"

"The penalty for failing to listen is to lose one’s history"

"If we don’t have that shared narrative, then they aren’t able to be part of something bigger than themselves."

"I believe that’s part of our culture is that we get so stuck in the facts now that we have lost the culture of, 'Let’s get to the moral.'"

"I think we have the best founding story out there. Not that I’ve researched every institution, but we certainly have the grit and determination and everything that you need to make a story interesting."

"And there are thousands of lessons in each and every part of that story depending on what you’re listening to or what you need to learn or what you want to take out of it—your interpretation."

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015: Liberal Arts Education, Part 1

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"English is one of those languages where words have multiple meanings, and when one of the meanings of the word has a certain connotation, it’s hard to use the word in any sense without that troubling connotation, good or bad, imposing on all other meanings of the word."

"the term “liberal” has been quite politicized. But there are the liberal arts, which relate to disciplines."

"Then there’s liberal education, which really sort of connotes a broader set of skills. Sort of a broad based, transferable skill set."

"And employers actually really like what the liberal arts do, what they add to a student’s education and to their life"

"when we, on a university campus, talk about the liberal arts, we aren’t talking about politics and we’re not talking about painting or singing."

"We’re talking about an education that is. . . liberally given, broadly given, that gives students a foundation to pursue a whole variety of careers, to develop the skills that will help them be successful."

"creating these transferable skill sets, this flexibility of mind, this higher order of thinking skills that students are going to need no matter what they’re working or what they’re doing."

"something that the country is moving towards is something called “micro-credentialing” or “stackable credentialing”

"we’re trying to take this idea of this broadly based, liberally given version of education and then infuse it with little “mini majors” that students can opt to take that are much more specific"

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