Adapts the information to the specific interests of the audience
Students continually face the challenge of adding each new life experience to their developing cognitive frameworks and deepen their understanding
Puts the students in an active learning mode
Promotes a tolerance for ambiguity and complexity
Allows participants to consider multiple perspectives on a single problem or dilemma
Follows a linear progression, with a beginning, middle, and end
Forces students to generate nonobvious, alternative responses to difficult problems
Challenges students to adopt the "action perspective"
The psychological distance between the instructor and the student inhibits learning
Does not promote long-term retention
The purpose is related to the destination, that is, the acquisition of specific knowledge by the students.
The student's attention span drops after the first 10 to 18 minutes
Compiles related information efficiently
The path of learning is zigzag, through a series of interrelated experiences that allow the rethinking of personal meanings.
The expression of passive learning
The expression of the academic behavior model
Challenges the student to accept substantial responsibility for their own education
Builds students confidence in the diagnosis of complex problems in a profession
Gives the student first-hand appreciation of, and experience with, the application of knowledge to practice
Does not promote transfer to the new context
