About the Author.

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I. A New Paradigm?

1. The Challenge.

2. The Problem of Scale: Why Innovations Don’t Transform Colleges.

3. The Instruction Paradigm: Process Before Purpose.

4. The Route to Transformation: The Learning Paradigm, Old and New.

Part II. The Foundation: The Learners and the Learning.

5. The Learners.

6. Self-Theories and Academic Motivation.

7. Approaches to Learning.

Part III. The Learning Environment of the College.

8. The Whole That Determines the Parts.

9. The Cognitive Economy of the Instruction Paradigm College.

Part IV. A Design for Learning.

10. The Cognitive Economy of the Learning Paradigm College.

11. A Learning Paradigm College Promotes Intrinsically Rewarding Goals.

12. A Learning Paradigm College Requires Frequent, Continual, Connected, and Authentic Student Performances.

13. A Learning Paradigm College Provides Consistent, Continual, Interactive Feedback to Students.

14. A Learning Paradigm College Provides a Long Time Horizon for Learning.

15. A Learning Paradigm College Creates Purposeful Communities of Practice.

16. A Learning Paradigm College Aligns All of Its Activities Around the Mission of Producing Student Learning.

Part V. Transforming the College.

17. Barriers to Transformation.

18. Scaffolding for Change.

19. The Golden Rule.

References.

Index.