Increasing Your Student's Understanding

A goal of higher education is to increase our student's deep learning. Deep learning is learning for understanding and not just memory. Deep approaches to learning are involve integrative processes where students actively synthesize and connect material to existing knowledge: 

Four key ways to increase deep learning are:

1. Assignments should motivate students to learn
2. Teaching and learning activities should build on a carefully structured, integrated knowledge base
3. Use active student learning and involvement as much as possible
4. Maximize the learning interactions among students