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In Chapter 5: The Learners, Tagg sums up  by saying, "...most students who leave high school and enter college bring with them a set of attitudes and beliefs about schooling...that tend to insulate them against learning rather than to prepare them for it....Unless colleges can change the attitudes and beliefs that disable many students as learners, most of their efforts to create effective learning environments will be ineffective" (47).

Do you find that your students (or some of them) remain "insulated against learning"? Do you work to change their attitudes and beliefs?

Who's Responsible?

In Chapter 4: The Route to Transformation: The Learning Paradigm, Old and New, Tagg quotes John Biggs, who said, "No longer is it possible to say: 'I taught them, but they didn't learn'" (31).

Do you agree that it is no longer possible to say that?

How Are We Doing? (Chapters 1-3)

I hope that our online discussions of John Tagg's The Learning Paradigm College will be spirited. Almost anything goes--brief responses, lengthy responses, digressions, rants, raves, unanswerable questions, unquestionable answers, jocularity, seriousness....

In his first three chapters, Tagg describes the Instruction Paradigm and the problems it creates. To what extent do you think OLOLC fits the Instruction Paradigm?