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AT&T
Academy Course Overview:
Building
Learning Communities: A User’s Guide
Week 1: Getting Started: What are Learning Communities?
- Creating
a homepage and introduction exercises
- Survey:
Why do you want to start a learning community?
- Discussion
of our definitions and experience with learning communities
Week
2: Why Create Learning Communities?
- Readings
cover the rationale behind and goals for learning communities
- Discussion
of our hopes and expectations for establishing a learning community
Week
3: Exploring Various Learning Community Models
- Analysis
of models for potential implementation at your institution
Week
4: Interdisciplinary Collaboration Around a Theme
- Small
interdisciplinary groups exploring ways your combined content knowledge
could be united around a common theme
- Analysis
of collaborative process
- Exploring
faculty roles in a learning community
Week
5: If You Build It, Will They Come?
- Survey:
If the learning community is intended to serve student sub-populations,
which populations are those?
- Continued
examination of student populations, pedagogical strategies, connections
among students and faculty, other goals, assignments as assessments
Week
6: Sustainability Issues
- Readings
on organizational change and planning
- Discussion
of additional considerations when planning LCs, including: communication,
marketing, institutionalization, assessment and feedback, resources
needed for implementation
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