Ken Bain believes that the best new idea in education is not finding better ways to use technology. He believes in the courses: "Super courses", he calls them, which will transform the teaching and learning experience. With Marsha Marshall Bain, the long-standing collaborator of him, he explores these courses in Super Courses: the future of teaching and learning (Princeton University Press). Ken Bain, a former history teacher, founded centers for teaching at the Universities of Northwestern, New York and Vanderbilt. They answered questions about ideas in their new book by email.
Q: What does a "super course" do?
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Students who come out of the super courses, take control of their own Education and they are conducted to think through all the main implications, applications and possibilities of what they are learning. They connect information and concepts in a variety of situations they find. They become adaptive experts, solvers of inventive and anxious problems for learning. In a super course version of what we call a natural critical learning environment, groups of heterogeneous students address questions and challenges that are intrinsically interesting, important and beautiful.
The challenges put them in a situation in which some of their important paradigms do not work as well as they thought. People in the class learn to think critically, which means reasoning of evidence and concepts, to examine the quality of their own thought, make crucial decisions and defend them rationally and articulately. It also means that they can explicitly examine their own mental models and adjust them to adapt to new ways of thinking and emerging evidence. All the experience leads them to ask probing and insightful questions and make improvements in their reasoning as they think.
