pt. I. A new paradigm? -- The challenge -- The problem of scale : why innovations don't transform colleges -- The instruction paradigm : process before purpose -- The route to transformation : the learning paradigm, old and new -- pt. II. The foundation : the learners and the learning -- The learners -- Self-theories and academic motivation -- Approaches to learning -- pt. III. The learning environment of the college -- The whole that determines the parts -- The cognitive economy of the instruction paradigm college -- pt. IV. A design for learning -- The cognitive economy of the learning paradigm college -- A learning paradigm college promotes intrinsically rewarding goals -- A learning paradigm college requires frequent, continual, connected, and authentic student performances -- A learning paradigm college provides consistent, continual, interactive feedback to students -- A learning paradigm college provides a long time horizon for learning -- A learning paradigm college creates purposeful communities of practice -- A learning paradigm college aligns all of its activities around the mission of producing student learning -- pt. V. Transforming the college -- Barriers to transformation -- Scaffolding for change -- The golden rule.

Includes bibliographical references (p.357-371) and index.