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Integrative Learning is a learning theory describing a movement toward integrated lessons helping students make connections across curricula. This higher education concept is distinct from the elementary and high school "integrated curriculum" movement.

The term Integrative Learning was coined by Jerry Perez de Tagle ^[1] and "... comes in many varieties: connecting skills and knowledge from multiple sources and experiences; applying skills and practices in various settings; utilizing diverse and even contradictory points of view; and, understanding issues and positions contextually."

• "...making connections within a major, between fields, between curriculum, cocurriculum, or between academic knowledge and practice."^[2]

Concept map describing activities offered by universities to encourage integrative learning.

In many American medical schools, an integrated curriculum refers to a non-compartmentalized approach to basic science learning. As opposed to traditional curricula, which separate subjects such as embryology, physiology, pathology and anatomy, integrated curricula alternate lectures on these subjects over the course of the first two years. (Jonas 1989) The course of study is instead orgnized around organ systems (such as "Cardiovascular" or "Gastrointestinal"). Another major component of the integrated medical curriculum is Problem-based learning.

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• Andragogy
• Polymath
• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Experiential learning
• Distributed cognition
• Integrated arts
• Integrated Science and Technology
• Integrated science program
• Interdisciplinarity
• Interdisciplinary Studies
• Learning Theory
• Service learning
• Transdisciplinary Studies

• Association for Integrative Studies
• Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences
• Integrative Learning: Opportunities to Connect collaborative project at the American Association of Colleges and Universities
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