Developing Reflective Learners: Serendipity and Synergy at Wheaton College.

For the past decade, Wheaton College, a small, liberal arts institution located in Norton, Massachusetts, has been creating, refining, and integrating a range of initiatives designed to develop students into active and reflective learners. Some of these initiatives grew out of explicit institutional commitments to teaching and learning innovation, while others were in fact happy accidents of circumstance, or situations where an individual program idea took hold, spread into other units of the College, and was itself transformed in the process.