November 16, 2001

Do Students Benefit When Professors Adopt a 'Learning Centered' Approach?

To the Editor:

Good teaching has always concerned itself with how students learn and how well they have learned. In this sense, much of the current talk about the learning college is indeed just talk ("A Community College Offers Directions for the Road of Life," October 12). However, to the extent that it causes instructors to refocus their attention on students, it can only help improve instruction.

Using this talk as a marketing tool, however, is a great misuse of the