Idea-Based Learning: A Course Design Process to Promote Conceptual Understanding - Paperbackby Edmund J. Hansen (Author) Synthesizing the best current thinking about learning, course design, and promoting student achievement, this is a guide to developing college instruction that has clear purpose, is well integrated into the curriculum, and improves student learning in predictable and measurable ways. Author Biography Edmund J. Hansen has been the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Northeastern Illinois University since its