Posts Tagged ‘Learning Community’
September 23 - Learning Communities Link Courses, Bring Academic and Student Affairs Together
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, Learning Communities
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 affairs, specifically in housing and residence life, always want to get faculty involved, but I think it’s really important for us to consider how
September 22 - Encouraging, Supporting Learning Communities
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, 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 improve the instructors’ teaching by exposing them to new teaching techniques and exploring connections between disciplines they might not have considered. However, to be successful,
September 21 - Build Learning Communities Throughout an Online Program
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, Learning Communities
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 happened to be working toward similar goals. The two-year program, which is housed in NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center, uses a cohort model that features
September 20 - Blogs Help Create Learning Communities
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, 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 networking opportunities and build learning communities beyond the classroom improve students’ writing skills. Miami University-Middletown is a commuter campus, so opportunities for students
August 12 - Look to Midcareer Faculty for Learning Communities
By: Therese Kattner in Articles, 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 Ellertson, an assessment consultant at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, who conducted research on faculty “vitality,” or the intensity of engagement with their work. “What
