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- Title
Utilizing Multiple Interlocking Learning Communities to Form a Center for Teaching and Learning.
- Authors
Trammell, Jack; Bruce, Jennifer
- Abstract
The trend toward implementing models for Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTL) for academic support in higher education is gaining momentum. Whether due to external influences, such as the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, which promotes inquiry about teaching and learning, or more related to internal forces such as the pressure to improve student retention, learning assistance administrators and teaching faculty increasingly share a common mission. The CTL movement assumes that significant learning takes place in multiple environments in and out of the classroom and that learning is a social interaction dependent on multi-layered and diverse learning communities. A case study at Randolph-Macon College suggests that moving learning centers toward the CTL model can effectively address some of the biggest challenges in the current postsecondary climate, such as retention, use of limited resources, and increased access.
- Subjects
ASHLAND (Va.); VIRGINIA; LEARNING communities; RETENTION of college students; HIGHER education; SOCIAL interaction; RANDOLPH-Macon College (Ashland, Va.)
- Publication
Learning Assistance Review (TLAR), 2008, Vol 13, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
1087-0059
- Publication type
Article