Lane's Institutional Learning Outcomes

Lane’s Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) are skills and habits of mind that each Lane student should develop through their involvement in our programs and courses. Each ILO is characterized by a main definition and example outcomes language. These examples show different levels of engagement possible with the ILOs and, while not exhaustive, provide guidance as to how the ILOs can be applied to Lane’s broad array of learning contexts.

Think Critically

Students explore issues, ideas, artifacts, and/or events in the process of accepting or formulating opinions or conclusions. They will be able to:

Identify and define key issues
Determine information need, find and cite relevant information
Demonstrate knowledge of the context and complexity of the issue
Integrate other relevant points of view of the issue
Evaluate supporting information and evidence
Construct appropriate and defensible reasoning to draw conclusions

Engage Diverse Values with Civic and Ethical Awareness

Students build and reinforce awareness of the value and impact of both their personal perspectives and those of others in diverse local and global communities. They will be able to:

Recognize and clarify personal values and perspectives
Evaluate diverse values and perspectives of others
Describe the impact of diverse values and perspectives on individuals, communities, and the world
Demonstrate knowledge of democratic values and practices
Collaborate with others to achieve shared goals

Create Ideas and Solutions

Students use their understanding of established disciplinary knowledge in conjunction with their own experiences and perspectives to create new ideas, questions, formats, solutions, or products. They will be able to:

Experiment with possibilities that move beyond traditional ideas or solutions
Embrace ambiguity and risk mistakes
Explore or resolve innovative and/or divergent ideas and directions, including contradictory ideas
Utilize technology to adapt to and create new media
Invent or hypothesize new variations on a theme, unique solutions or products; transform and revise solution or project to completion
Persist when faced with difficulties, resistance, or errors; assess failures or mistakes and rework
Reflect on successes, failures, and obstacles

Communicate Effectively

Students effectively convey and interact with information in a variety of contexts and modalities with awareness of the influence of audience and purpose. They will be able to:

Select an effective and appropriate medium (such as face-to-face, written, broadcast, or digital) for conveying the message
Create and express messages with clear language and nonverbal forms appropriate to the audience and cultural context
Organize the message to adapt to cultural norms, audience, purpose, and medium
Support assertions with contextually appropriate and accurate examples, graphics, and quantitative information
Attend to messages, check for shared meaning, identify sources of misunderstanding, and signal comprehension or non-comprehension
Demonstrate honesty, openness to alternative views, and respect for others’ freedom to dissent

Apply Learning

Students reflect on and transfer their learning, knowledge, and skills to new contexts in order to solve problems, make connections, and/or innovate. They will be able to:

Connect theory and practice to develop skills, deepen understanding of fields of study and broaden perspectives
Apply skills, abilities, theories or methodologies gained in one situation to new situations to solve problems or explore issues
Use mathematics or quantitative reasoning to solve problems
Integrate and reflect on experiences and learning from multiple and diverse contexts