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Are We Thinking as Developmentally as We Should?

Individual courses and degree programs give us the opportunity to move students along a developmental continuum. Content complexity grows across course sequences, as does student understanding of it. But are students growing as learners in the same way? Are we designing learning experiences so that they develop cognitive skills and learner autonomy?

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