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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education Learning Communities National Resource Center


These frequently asked questions have been culled from over fifteen years of experience working with campuses to initiate learning communities. 
  • What are learning communities?
  • What about living/learning communities?
  • How widespread are LCs and what types of colleges and universities are offering them?
  • Why have learning communities?
  • What do we need to know and how do we get started?
  • Who leads learning communities?
  • How are they taught?
  • What role do libraries and information technology play in LCs?
  • How should we assess our learning communities?
  • What do they cost?
  • How can we fund them?
  • How do we market learning communities to students, faculty, advisors, and others?
  • How can we encourage diversity in our learning community program?
  • What approaches to faculty development work best?

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