The term “community of learners” (COL) has been around for decades in education. COLs emerge when interest and knowledge are shared among learners. The idea is to empower learners to collectively ...

Gertrude Stein was wrong: a rose is not necessarily a rose. Calling something a rose doesn’t make it a rose. Take the example of learning communities, one of the high-impact practices that contributes ...

Students live with other students from the same academic program, making it easy to form study groups or project teams. Living Learning Communities (LLCs) are assigned a specific area in a residence ...

From visual arts to global business, first- and second-year students are offered a variety of learning communities to grow in their interests, careers and friendships. According to the University ...

In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these ...

I didn’t quite know what to expect when I picked up Dave Cormier’s Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community Is the Curriculum. I knew Cormier’s work from his prolific blogging and focus on the ...

The Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning sponsors several learning communities that bring together various groups of faculty and graduate students from across campus to engage in active and ...