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What Teaching Strategies Can Enhance Your Learning Community Course?

An overview of teaching strategies for building active learning in the classroom by the National Learning Community Project, including links to resources
http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/03_start_entry.asp#20

Learning and Teaching  - The National Grid for Learning
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/teaching/contents.htm

Learning Communities Directory Report - Instructor responses to the question:

“What strategies do you use to improve your learning communities”? http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/dir/showQuest.asp?qid=58 

Cooperative/Collaborative Learning

Felder, Richard and Rebecca Brent. (1994). Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfall, and Payoffs. ERIC Document Reproduction Service Report ED 377038
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/user......Coopreport.html

Cooperative Learning: The “Jigsaw” Approach
www.jigsaw.org

Problem Based Learning (PBL)

University of Delaware’s PBL site
http://www.udel.edu/pbl/

Maricopa Community College’s PBL site
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl

Case Studies

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ubcase.htm#teaching

Sources of Cases and Teaching Information
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/schodt/casesbib.htm

Classroom Discussions

Fostering Classroom Discussions
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/English/tc/discussion.htm  

Student Journals

ERIC Digest: Journal Writing and Adult Learning http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed399413.html

National Teaching and Learning Forum: Does Journal Writing Promote Long-Term Retention?
http://www.ntlf.com/html/sf/journal.htm

Critical Thinking

Long View Community College website on Critical Thinking across the Curriculum http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/index.htm

Practical critical thinking exercises for use in the classroom. http://www.uky.edu/LCC/PHI/critthnk.html

Study Skills Enhancement

The Basics of Effective Learning from Bucks Community College website http://www.bucks.edu/~specpop/topics.htm

Integrating Career-Related Information into your Learning Community

BASICS - Building a Solid Inventory of Career Strategies - Faculty Guide. This guide describes how counselors and instructors can infuse career-building strategies into vocational and academic programs -complete with student assignments.

2003 BASICS Guide Part 1 - Preliminary pages including cover page, acknowledgments, table of contents, and introduction.

2003 BASICS Guide Part 2 - Main portion of the Guide including sections on Career Planning, Getting Hired, Keeping the Job, and Managing a Career.

2003 BASICS Guide Part 3 - Instructor Guide for Students with Disabilities

 

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