Research-Based Student Learning at the Post-Secondary Level

Research-Based Student Learning at the Post-Secondary Level

Daytona Beach, Florida

Research-based student learning is an educationally sound approach to learning adding value to undergraduate courses and enhancing students' long term academic experience. Research-based learning should recognize the student as researcher, begin at the undergraduate level, and be embedded in all discipline courses and across the curriculum. It requires active student engagement, and can be complemented by the use of qualitative methodology in research and critical thinking very early in the education experience. Post-secondary institutions need transformational leaders to meet the challenge of placing research at the center of student learning. To reach student goals, institutions must develop a strategic plan, persistently monitor all facets of research-based student learning and continually cultivate a culture of inquirers within an ever-changing academic environment.