High-Impact Educational Practices (HIEPs)
High impact educational practices (HIEPs)are:
- intentional pedagogical approaches
- that produce strong and enduring impacts on students’ progress
- toward significant learning outcomes.
They are characterized by engaging, student-centered, inquiry-driven educational experiences that set high expectations.
At FAU, we have defined aHIEP as… A learning experience that is specifically tailored/geared towardengaging students in meaningful educational experiences
HIEPs
- Are intentional
- Are appropriate educational activities
- Promote curiosity and higher-level activity
- Lead to fulfillment
- Thrive with change
- Provide self-directed opportunities to a defined outcome
- Are relevant and meaningful
- Are engaging, enriching learning experiences
- Require reflection
- Have an opportunity for application of what is being learned
- Allow for “deep learning”
From
- First-Year Seminars and Experiences
- Common Intellectual Experiences
- Collaborative Assignments and Projects
- Undergraduate Research
- Writing-Intensive Courses
- Diversity/Global Learning
- Service Learning, Community-Based Learning
- Internships
- Capstone Courses and Projects
- Students see connections between different courses as they integrate and synthesize material
- Students can apply what they learn in class (relevance)
- Students tend to talk about substantive matters outside of class with faculty and peers
- “Deep Learning”
- “Student engagement”
- Students typically invest more time and effort in projects/assignments
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Undergraduate Research and Inquiry(OURI)
- Study Abroad (Education Abroad)
- Academic Service-Learning (Office of Community Engagement)
- Writing-Intensive Courses(WAC; WEC)
- Honor Seminars
- Internships (Career Center)
- Capstone courses (see individual departments for capstone experiences)