{"id":2241,"date":"2021-12-10T07:44:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2021-12-10T07:44:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:44:26","slug":"more-on-rigour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/10\/more-on-rigour\/","title":{"rendered":"More on rigour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/rethinking-rigour\/\">Teaching and Learning Commons<\/a>, my colleague Jennifer Hardwick places the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?s=rigour\">rigour<\/a> in the context of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/rigour\">Oxford English Dictionary defines \u201crigour<\/a>\u201d as \u201cthe fact of being careful and paying great attention to detail\u201d and \u201cthe fact of being strict or severe.\u201d In universities, I think we often conflate the two definitions, striving for the first but implementing the second instead.<\/em><\/p><p><em>If we want our students to be rigorous \u2014 thoughtful, careful, critical, and detailed \u2014 in their thinking and in their scholarship, we don\u2019t necessarily need to be strict or severe. Rather, we need to create opportunities for our students to attain, practice, and apply skills in multiple ways so that they are prepared to think deeply and engage critically and ethically in a variety of contexts and conditions. In this sense, flexibility,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/pandemic-pedagogy-and-the-labour-of-care\/\">pedagogical care<\/a>, and frameworks such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can actually expand rigour in a classroom. In fact, UDL practitioners have a term for the kind of rigorous students many of us a seek to develop: expert learners.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cast.org\/impact\/universal-design-for-learning-udl\">CAST<\/a>, the non-profit education organization that created UDL defines\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cast.org\/binaries\/content\/assets\/common\/publications\/downloads\/cast-5-expert-learners-2017.pdf\">expert learners<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cresourceful and knowledgeable, strategic and goal-directed, and purposeful and motivated.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p><em>UDL encourages educators to develop expert learners by creating pathways through courses so that students have opportunities to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/udlguidelines.cast.org\/\">consume, share, and engage with knowledge in multiple ways<\/a>. In this sense, UDL isn\u2019t about lowering standards; it\u2019s about showing that there are often different ways to meet them. Not only does this approach reduce barriers to learning, it also helps students become self-aware learners who understand that they have a variety of methodologies, tools, and mediums at their disposal to solve problems and share information.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/tlcommons\/rethinking-rigour\/\">Hardwick&#8217;s entire discussion<\/a> is admirably clear and very helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Teaching and Learning Commons, my colleague Jennifer Hardwick places the concept of rigour in the context of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) : The\u00a0Oxford English Dictionary defines \u201crigour\u201d as \u201cthe fact of being careful and paying great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/10\/more-on-rigour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-for-educators"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}