Learning Communities
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Defined
Patricia Cross defined a learning community as "groups of people engaged in intellectual interaction for the purpose of learning" (Cross, 1998, p. 4)
Ways to create your own learning community
Create a WSU wiki page and invite others to "be bold."
Use elgg, which is a social networking tool.
Students at WSU
Freshman Focus
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The Tomorrow's Professor Blog is a place for discussion about teaching and learning.
Carnegie Conversations is a forum to engage publicly with the authors and readers of Carnegie Perspectives.
Teaching, Learning, and Technology
ePortfolios
{http://ncepr.org/ncepr/drupal/ National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research]
The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at WSU is conducting research on ePortfolios and is a member of the NCEPR. The NCEPR site has its own chat, wiki, blog, aggregator, and news.
Resources
Learning Communities National Resource Center
References
Cross, K. P. (1998, July/August). Why learning communities? Why now? About Campus, 4-11.
