Learning Communities
Learning communities are classes that are linked or clustered, often around an interdisciplinary theme, and enroll a common cadre of students. Consult Faculty Focus regularly for the latest trends in learning communities.
June 22, 2010
Learning Communities: Benefits Across the Board?
There is no question that higher education tends to get caught up in “fashionable” program innovations, and learning communities could certainly be considered an example. A great deal of research ... Read more »
November 5, 2009
Learning Communities: Key Elements for Sustainability
Tuesday’s post discussed the goals and core practices of effective learning communities. Today we outline elements of sustainable learning communities as well as some of the challenges of learning community ... Read more »
November 3, 2009
Helping Your Learning Community Reach Its Goals
Learning communities come in all shapes and sizes. Some simply link courses and put students in a cohort; many go considerably beyond that to build a learning environment around core ... Read more »
October 27, 2008
Creating Faculty Collegiality: Strategies for Department Chairs
Incivility in higher education has flourished in recent years, fueled by a convergence of factors ranging from the infiltration of a more corporate culture and a system that rewards individual ... Read more »
September 23, 2008
Learning Communities Link Courses, Bring Academic and Student Affairs Together
Faculty need to be very careful about how they commit their time and energy, so any potential partnership with student affairs need to be compelling and clearly articulated. "We in student ... Read more »
September 22, 2008
Encouraging, Supporting Learning Communities
Learning communities, an approach to curriculum design that links two or more courses, can improve student success and retention and help students develop effective learning habits. Learning communities also can ... Read more »
September 21, 2008
Build Learning Communities Throughout an Online Program
Nova Southeastern University's Master's in Health Law program is designed to encourage the creation of learning communities in which students view each other as partners rather than isolated individuals who ... Read more »
September 20, 2008
Blogs Help Create Learning Communities
Susan Baim, assistant professor of business technology at Miami University-Middletown, uses weblogs to supplement her face-to-face courses to improve students' abilities to use the internet as a research medium provide students with ... Read more »
August 12, 2008
Look to Midcareer Faculty for Learning Communities
Studies on faculty careers show that faculty research publication productivity plateaus or drops at midcareer. However, this one measure of faculty productivity should not be mistaken as stagnation, says Shari ... Read more »
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