Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7princip.htm

This blog explains that the students, the faculty, and the administrators alike should uphold the seven principles that are outlined. These seven principles have been proven in over 50 years of research. They help to assist in the improvement of learning and teaching. In addition, to the seven principles, six forces that are considered powerful that go hand in hand to multiply the learning and the teaching effects.

The seven principles involve, according to this blog are “Encourage contact between student and faculty, develops reciprocity and cooperation among students, encourage active learning, provide prompt feedback, emphasizes times of task, communicate high expectations, and respects diverse talents and ways of learning." This blog features the six powerful forces that go hand in hand with the seven principles, which are equally important, "activity, expectations, cooperation, interaction, diversity, and responsibility."

On top of the principles and the forces, the learning environment must have, according to this blog, “ a strong and shared purpose, concrete support from administrators and faculty for the purpose, adequate funding appropriate for the purpose, policies and procedures consistent with the purpose, and continuing examination of how well the purposes are being achieved.”

In addition, different colleges/universities, depending on the student, their particular situation and the settings that are involved, as to how implementation of these principles will be administered and how each institution is governed and mandated. The considerations are the ethnicity, the gender, the age, and whether each student is prepared for coursework or not.

I think that this blog would be helpful to the Instructional Designer as to the seven principles that should be applied for good practice in and undergraduate class. The seven principles were outline and described nicely as to what to expect from each. I believe that all these principles can be applied to the online learning environment. I would certainly apply all of the principles and the forces when I am creating an online course. I would want each of the students taking my created class to succeed in some fashion utilizing all of the principles and the forces.