“One of the first tasks teachers face when designing a course is deciding what they want students to learn or get out of their course. Students will always learn something, but good teachers want their students to learn something important or significant, rather than something relatively insignificant.
This leads to a question that is key to the whole teaching enterprise…”

From WHAT IS “SIGNIFICANT LEARNING”? by Dr. L. Dee Fink
Director, Instructional Development Program

http://www.ou.edu/pii/significant/WHAT IS.pdf