PDF-[READ] - The Learning Community Experience in Higher Education: High-Impact Practice

Offering an interdisciplinary qualitative approach this book examines and evaluates the role and benefits of a Learning Community LC a highimpact practice for student retention in higher education Grounded in indepth case studies and firstperson student experiences the authors studied four student cohorts sophomore junior senior and graduate students who participated in a full immersion LC experience at an urban public fouryear college in New York Focusing on the maturity students develop as they progress toward their degrees the authors evaluate the impact of the learning community on the students experiences perceptions successes and obstacles A powerful demonstration of the effects of connection and comradery on learning this account explores how the LC helps the decisionmaking of those in higher education administration regarding high impact student interventions. Out-of-Class . Learning: . A Model for Partnerships. Betsy Barefoot. John Gardner. . Integrative Learning. An Important Avenue to Transforming What and How Students Learn. What Is Integrative Learning?. Sharon Hutchings & Ann McCarthy . Student volunteering in the community. Aim of session:. To . reflect on the Volunteering project . Module evaluating and reflecting on how far it afforded . students the opportunity to ‘live’ their sociology, to connect to their communities and hopefully make links that were truly . Objectives. Identify . how a task-oriented community experience differs from community-based . learning. Compare . strategies used in the classroom, across disciplines, that may or may not contribute to capstone community . A Return on Investment. Kirk Skoglund. Northwest Missouri State . University (Northwest). Talent Development Center. kskog@nwmissouri.edu. Outline. Overview of Northwest and SI Program . Goal. Background Research. Professor Liz Thomas, Higher . Education Academy. Student Writing in Transition . Symposium, Nottingham Trent University. Retention and non-completion in England.. What . works? Student retention and success programme. WIT February 2012. Professor Sally Brown. Emeritus Professor, Leeds Metropolitan University. Adjunct Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast and James Cook University. Visiting Professor University of Plymouth. blended learning. Josephine Adekola, Vicki Dale, Kerr Gardiner, . Jo-Anne Murray and Moira Fischbacher-Smith. University of Glasgow. Overview. Why we focused on transitions . into . blended . learning (BL). Michele Cuomo, MFA. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Victor Fichera, Ph.D.. Principal Investigator of the . Freshman Academies Protocol. Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. How pre-entry activity can generate an early sense of belonging that facilitates student progression. Newman University, Birmingham. Student Formation. the development and growth of the whole person and implies a mindfulness in all things; of being grounded in values, thoughtful in scholarship and . by. Hermione Ruck Keene & Katherine High. Session aims and overview. Open . dialogue about differentiation. Share . ideas about best practice. Reflect . on the findings of Phase 1 of a small scale action research project. Jennifer R. . Keup,. Ph.D.. Director. National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience . and Students in Transition. Introduce the . importance of the prep . year for higher education and society. (hip. s. 101—The basics). . Gordon Uno. Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology. University of Oklahoma. guno@ou.edu. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses . (Arum and . INCREASE ATTENDANCEincrease attendance by 30%.LET EVERYONE’S VOICE BE HEARD.Anonymous questions can lead to 70% of learners being more likely to participate. Only 60undergraduate students gradu Education. Dr Lisa Lucas, University of Bristol. SRHE International Research and Researchers Network Seminar. In Depth and in Between: conducting Ethnographic research on higher education across International Borders.