... just returned from the AAC&U (Association of American Colleges and Universities) conference at Loyola University in Chicago to learn more about Integrative Learning and Signature Works through their annual institute. For those of us interested in creativity, entrepreneurial mindset/behaviors and 21st century workforce skills, the AAC&U has many tools for us to use with students and within our communities.
What is integrative learning? Here's the AAC&U vision:
Integrative learning is an understanding and a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum and cocurriculum, from making simple connections among ideas and experiences to synthesizing and transferring learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus.
If you would like to consider the controversy of "assessing" creativity, take a look at the AAC&U creative thinking rubric:
Link to AAC&U Creative Thinking Rubric
