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Download full textLaucella, Lydia E. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
This article outlines the process of how the author purposefully designed an integrative assignment to meet the real-world needs of a nursing cohort, First-Year Seminar anchored learning community. The author provides evidence from her own teaching practices to explore the elements that contributed to the construction of this assignment. For…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Assignments, First Year Seminars, Communities of Practice
Brown, Jamie; Hoffman, Holly; Rouech, Kristina E.; VanDeusen, Elizabeth A. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2018
This article describes the first implementation of the Future Educators Learning Community, and particularly, the impact of three linked courses and instructor collaboration. With supporting literature and the context and background of this learning community as the foundation, our experiences are structured into three distinct categories:…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Steiner, Hillary H. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2016
Many learning communities instructors seek professional development opportunities that foster their growth as teacher-scholars. Learning communities programs, therefore, have an opportunity to provide targeted, "just in time" training that allows for the immediate application of knowledge to a learning community setting, maximizing…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Faculty, Scholarship, College Freshmen
Rapchak, Marcia E.; Brungard, Allison B.; Bergfelt, Theodore W. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2016
Using the Information Literacy VALUE Rubric provided by the AAC&U, this study compares thirty final capstone assignments in a research course in a learning community with thirty final assignments in from students not in learning communities. Results indicated higher performance of the non-learning community students; however, transfer skills…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Outcomes of Education
Graziano, Janine; Schlesinger, Marissa R.; Kahn, Gabrielle; Singer, Rachel – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2016
To address the professional development needs of learning community instructors at Kingsborough Community College, faculty coordinators and program directors developed a workbook for instructional teams. This workbook walks instructors through the collaborative process of creating and sustaining successful links and focuses on what we believe is…
Descriptors: Workbooks, Worksheets, Communities of Practice, Community Colleges
Kahn, Gabrielle; Calienes, Christian M.; Thompson, Tara A. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2016
This research builds upon Malnarich, Pettitt, and Mino's (2014) investigation of students' reflections on their learning community (LC) experiences. Adapting their Peer-to-Peer Reflection Protocol for use at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, we present a framework for dynamic LC program assessment. To obtain feedback about theory-practice…
Descriptors: Reflection, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
