Living Learning Communities In Practice

Author : Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Jody E. Jessup-Anger,Mimi Benjamin,Matthew R. Wawrzynski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000979664

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Living-Learning Communities That Work by Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Jody E. Jessup-Anger,Mimi Benjamin,Matthew R. Wawrzynski Pdf

Co-published with In 2007, the American Association of Colleges and Universities named learning communities a high-impact practice because of the potential of these communities to provide coherence to and ultimately improve undergraduate education. Institutional leaders have demonstrated a commitment to providing LLCs, but they currently do so primarily with anecdotal information to guide their work. As a result, there is substantial variation in organizational structure, collaboration, academic and social environments, programmatic integration, student outcomes, and overall quality related to LLC participation. To establish a stronger, more unified basis for designing and delivering effective LLCs, the authors of Living-Learning Communities that Work collaborated on the development of a comprehensive empirical framework for achieving the integrating potential of LLCs. This framework is designed to help practitioners guide the design, delivery, and assessment of LLCs. This book thoughtfully combines research and field-tested practice to document the essential components for best practices in living learning communities and presents them as a clear blueprint – the LLC best practices model – for LLC design. Practitioners, researchers, and institutional leaders can use the book as a guide to more effectively allocate resources to create and sustain LLCs and to realize the potential of these communities to improve undergraduate education.

Author : Anastasia Samaras,Anne R. Freese,Clare Kosnik,Clive Beck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402087882

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Learning Communities In Practice by Anastasia Samaras,Anne R. Freese,Clare Kosnik,Clive Beck Pdf

Most would agree that a learning community of practice cultivates social and intellectual development in educational settings but what are the other benefits and what does a learning community actually look like in practice? This book explores such questions as: “Are learning communities essential in education?” “How are they designed and developed?” “What difference do they make in learning?” The book contains contributions of educators who share their research and practice in designing and implementing learning communities in school, university, and professional network settings. It presents their experiences, and the “how to” of these educators who are passionate about building and sustaining learning communities to make a real difference for students, teachers, faculty, and communities. Combining scholarly and practitioner research, the book offers practical information to teachers, school and university administrators, teacher educators, and community educators.

Author : Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Mimi Benjamin,Jody Jessup-Anger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Education
ISBN : 1642673218

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Living-Learning Communities in Practice by Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Mimi Benjamin,Jody Jessup-Anger Pdf

This book offers a roadmap for developing, growing, and sustaining living-learning communities (LLCs) that promote student success and enhance the undergraduate experience. Drawing on the Best Practices Model presented in Living-Learning Communities That Work, as well as updated research and rich, real-life examples from LLC administrators, the authors offer a revised and improved model for effective LLC practice. Nuanced typologies guide stakeholders in developing and growing their own programs, from the foundational, to the intermediate, and to the advanced level. This text features an extended section on the assessment of LLCs, complete with a logic model for integrating program assessment with student learning outcomes, and concludes with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and a look into the future of LLCs in higher education. At a time when colleges and universities struggle to create community for students, this book will be a valuable resource to practitioners, researchers, and institutional leaders to more effectively allocate resources to create and sustain LLCs and to realize the potential of these communities to improve undergraduate education. For more information about ACUHO-I membership, events, and resources, please visit acuho-i.org.

Author : Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Jody Jessup-Anger,Mimi Benjamin,Matthew R. Wawrzynski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 1003445772

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Living-learning Communities that Work by Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Jody Jessup-Anger,Mimi Benjamin,Matthew R. Wawrzynski Pdf

In 2007, the American Association of Colleges and Universities named learning communities a high-impact practice because of the potential of these communities to provide coherence to and ultimately improve undergraduate education. Institutional leaders have demonstrated a commitment to providing LLCs, but they currently do so primarily with anecdotal information to guide their work. As a result, there is substantial variation in organizational structure, collaboration, academic and social environments, programmatic integration, student outcomes, and overall quality related to LLC participation. To establish a stronger, more unified basis for designing and delivering effective LLCs, the authors of Living-Learning Communities that Work collaborated on the development of a comprehensive empirical framework for achieving the integrating potential of LLCs. This framework is designed to help practitioners guide the design, delivery, and assessment of LLCs. This book thoughtfully combines research and field-tested practice to document the essential components for best practices in living learning communities and presents them as a clear blueprint - the LLC best practices model - for LLC design. Practitioners, researchers, and institutional leaders can use the book as a guide to more effectively allocate resources to create and sustain LLCs and to realize the potential of these communities to improve undergraduate education.

Author : Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Mimi Benjamin,Jody E. Jessup-Anger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040022207

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Living-Learning Communities in Practice by Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas,Mimi Benjamin,Jody E. Jessup-Anger Pdf

This book offers a roadmap for developing, growing, and sustaining living-learning communities (LLCs) that promote student success and enhance the undergraduate experience. Drawing on the Best Practices Model presented in Living-Learning Communities That Work, as well as updated research and rich, real-life examples from LLC administrators, the authors offer a revised and improved model for effective LLC practice. Nuanced typologies guide stakeholders in developing and growing their own programs, from the foundational, to the intermediate, and to the advanced level. This text features an extended section on the assessment of LLCs, complete with a logic model for integrating program assessment with student learning outcomes, and concludes with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and a look into the future of LLCs in higher education. At a time when colleges and universities struggle to create community for students, this book will be a valuable resource to practitioners, researchers, and institutional leaders to more effectively allocate resources to create and sustain LLCs and to realize the potential of these communities to improve undergraduate education. For more information about ACUHO-I membership, events, and resources, please visit acuho-i.org.

Author : A. W Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995269238

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Teaching in a Digital Age by A. W Bates Pdf

Author : Etienne Wenger,Richard Arnold McDermott,William Snyder
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781578513307

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Cultivating Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger,Richard Arnold McDermott,William Snyder Pdf

Today's marketplace is fueled by knowledge. Yet organizing systematically to leverage knowledge remains a challenge. Leading companies have discovered that technology is not enough, and that cultivating communities of practice is the keystone of an effective knowledge strategy. Communities of practice come together around common interests and expertise- whether they consist of first-line managers or customer service representatives, neurosurgeons or software programmers, city managers or home-improvement amateurs. They create, share, and apply knowledge within and across the boundaries of teams, business units, and even entire companies-providing a concrete path toward creating a true knowledge organization. In Cultivating Communities of Practice, Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder argue that while communities form naturally, organizations need to become more proactive and systematic about developing and integrating them into their strategy. This book provides practical models and methods for stewarding these communities to reach their full potential-without squelching the inner drive that makes them so valuable. Through in-depth cases from firms such as DaimlerChrysler, McKinsey & Company, Shell, and the World Bank, the authors demonstrate how communities of practice can be leveraged to drive overall company strategy, generate new business opportunities, tie personal development to corporate goals, transfer best practices, and recruit and retain top talent. They define the unique features of these communities and outline principles for nurturing their essential elements. They provide guidelines to support communities of practice through their major stages of development, address the potential downsides of communities, and discuss the specific challenges of distributed communities. And they show how to recognize the value created by communities of practice and how to build a corporate knowledge strategy around them. Essential reading for any leader in today's knowledge economy, this is the definitive guide to developing communities of practice for the benefit-and long-term success-of organizations and the individuals who work in them. Etienne Wenger is a renowned expert and consultant on knowledge management and communities of practice in San Juan, California. Richard McDermott is a leading expert of organization and community development in Boulder, Colorado. William M. Snyder is a founding partner of Social Capital Group, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Author : Coral Mitchell,Larry Sickney
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087906962

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Sustainable Improvement by Coral Mitchell,Larry Sickney Pdf

This book situates learning communities in living systems and ecological perspectives. The fundamental premise is that all of human life and human activity is part of a deep planetary ecology of which mutuality and interdependence are cornerstone properties, learning and renewal are key processes, and emergent networks are foundational structures.

Author : Shirley M. Hord,William A. Sommers
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452207889

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Leading Professional Learning Communities by Shirley M. Hord,William A. Sommers Pdf

Imagine all professionals in all schools engaged in continuous professional learning! Education experts Shirley M. Hord and William A. Sommers explore the school-based learning opportunities offered to school professionals and the principal's critical role in the creation, development, and support of an effective professional learning community (PLC). This book provides school leaders with readily accessible information to guide them in initiating and developing a PLC that supports teachers and students. Using field-tested examples, the text illustrates how this research-based school improvement model can help educators: Increase leadership capacity Embed professional development into daily work Create a positive school culture Develop accountability Boost student achievement

Author : Ray Land,Jan H. F. Meyer,Michael T. Flanagan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463005128

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Threshold Concepts in Practice by Ray Land,Jan H. F. Meyer,Michael T. Flanagan Pdf

"Threshold Concepts in Practice brings together fifty researchers from sixteen countries and a wide variety of disciplines to analyse their teaching practice, and the learning experiences of their students, through the lens of the Threshold Concepts Framework. In any discipline, there are certain concepts – the ‘jewels in the curriculum’ – whose acquisition is akin to passing through a portal. Learners enter new conceptual (and often affective) territory. Previously inaccessible ways of thinking or practising come into view, without which they cannot progress, and which offer a transformed internal view of subject landscape, or even world view. These conceptual gateways are integrative, exposing the previously hidden interrelatedness of ideas, and are irreversible. However they frequently present troublesome knowledge and are often points at which students become stuck. Difficulty in understanding may leave the learner in a ‘liminal’ state of transition, a ‘betwixt and between’ space of knowing and not knowing, where understanding can approximate to a form of mimicry. Learners navigating such spaces report a sense of uncertainty, ambiguity, paradox, anxiety, even chaos. The liminal space may equally be one of awe and wonderment. Thresholds research identifies these spaces as key transformational points, crucial to the learner’s development but where they can oscillate and remain for considerable periods. These spaces require not only conceptual but ontological and discursive shifts. This volume, the fourth in a tetralogy on Threshold Concepts, discusses student experiences, and the curriculum interventions of their teachers, in a range of disciplines and professional practices including medicine, law, engineering, architecture and military education. Cover image: Detail from ‘Eve offering the apple to Adam in the Garden of Eden and the serpent’ c.1520–25. Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553). Bridgeman Images. All rights reserved.

Author : Robert Brown,Shruti Desai,Craig Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429773648

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Identity-Conscious Supervision in Student Affairs by Robert Brown,Shruti Desai,Craig Elliott Pdf

This guide offers current and future student affairs practitioners a new conceptual framework for identity-conscious and intersectional supervision. Presenting an original and transformative model to address day-to-day challenges, this book gives practitioners a strategic approach to engage in self-work, identity exploration, relationship building, consciousness raising, trust development, and organizational change, ultimately helping them become more adept at supervising people from a range of backgrounds and experiences. Chapters include theoretical underpinnings, practical tips, case studies, and discussion questions to explore strategies in real-life contexts. Identity-Conscious Supervision in Student Affairs is a key tool for student affairs practitioners to effectively change systems of dominance and inequity on their campuses.

Author : Etienne Wenger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781107268371

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Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger Pdf

This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over time. To give a social account of learning, the theory explores in a systematic way the intersection of issues of community, social practice, meaning, and identity. The result is a broad framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. This ambitious but thoroughly accessible framework has relevance for the practitioner as well as the theoretician, presented with all the breadth, depth, and rigor necessary to address such a complex and yet profoundly human topic.

Author : George D. Kuh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132292884

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High-impact Educational Practices by George D. Kuh Pdf

This publication¿the latest report from AAC&U¿s Liberal Education and America¿s Promise (LEAP) initiative¿defines a set of educational practices that research has demonstrated have a significant impact on student success. Author George Kuh presents data from the National Survey of Student Engagement about these practices and explains why they benefit all students, but also seem to benefit underserved students even more than their more advantaged peers. The report also presents data that show definitively that underserved students are the least likely students, on average, to have access to these practices.

Author : Jodi Levine Laufgraben,Nancy S. Shapiro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787960544

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Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities by Jodi Levine Laufgraben,Nancy S. Shapiro Pdf

Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities is the long awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking book Creating Learning Communities. The authors continue their exploration of the concept of learning communities as an innovation in undergraduate curricular instruction that allow students to actively participate in their own education, and deepen and diversify their college experience. Jodi Levine Laufgraben and Nancy S. Shapiro address a wide range of topics such as campus culture for sustaining learning communities, learning communities and the curriculum, pedagogies, and faculty development.

Author : Máirín Glenn,Mary Roche,Caitriona McDonagh,Bernie Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474243599

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Learning Communities in Educational Partnerships by Máirín Glenn,Mary Roche,Caitriona McDonagh,Bernie Sullivan Pdf

Learning Communities in Educational Partnerships shows how theory and practice come into lived interplay in social spaces where theory informs practice and practice turns into theory. Drawing on their own experiences of becoming a learning community, the authors introduce the ideas underpinning self-study action research. Through a series of first-hand practitioner accounts, the chapters describe and explain how to engage in processes of inquiry and establish learning communities, how to make space for professional conversations and how to develop living theories from within daily practice. The book shows how meaningful change can take place, both in educational improvements and also in more transformative professional learning, when educators are encouraged to draw on their own personal educational values and share their idea