​As I gain knowledge and understanding how to implement my innovation plan I realize an important component is to create a significant learning environment. This CSLE is to be used as a catalyst to enhance learning. 

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When you see these links, you'll see I'm focusing on learning yet I've just scratched the surface. The power of the word "Yet" is that I'm not there yet. I want something and I'm capable of getting it. 

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1. Constructing Meaningful Connections

2. Learning in the Digital Information Age

3. Aligning Outcomes, Assessment and Activities

4. Understanding by Design

5. Power of a Growth Mindset

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In constructing meaningful connections I fight off the tyranny of the urgent that normally guides our approach to developing our CSLE. In part two I explore my learning philosophy that focuses on the student. This theory will shape my physical environment.  

In part three I build a course for my innovation plan following Fink's "Self-Directed Guide to Course Design." In part four I take on a new learning challenge by creating a course designed from Wiggins and McTighe's "Understanding by Design." Here I design backwards from my goals. This helps prepare learners to have curiosity and a questioning disposition. In part five I explore the power of the growth mindset theory. How winning and succeeding is more than about ability, it includes our beliefs about who we are. How having a growth mindset "can be the difference between learners who accept challenges as an opportunity for development or a learner who has difficulty coping with challenge and resort to cheating." (Harapnuik, 2016)

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References 

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Harapnuik, D. (2016) Classroom: Create significant learning environment [Course Description] Retrieved from Lamar University, EDLD 5313, Blackboard: luonline.blackboard.com

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Fink, L. D. (2013). Creating significant learning experiences: An integrated approach to designing college courses. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.