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17 JULY 2012
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Learning Communities: new students sharing common experiences

"In their most basic form, learning communities employ a kind of co-registration or block scheduling that enables students to take courses together. The same students register for two or more courses, forming a sort of study team. In a few cases this may mean sharing the entire first-semester curriculum together so that all new students in that learning community are studying the same material. Sometimes it will link all freshmen by tying two courses together for all - most typically a course in writing with a course in selected literature, or biographies, or current social problems. In the larger universities such as the University of Oregon and the University of Washington, students in a learning community attend lectures with 200–300 other students but stay together for a smaller discussion section (Freshman Interest Group) led by a graduate student or upper division student. In a very different setting, Seattle Central Community College students in the Coordinated Studies Program take all their courses together in one block of time so that the community meets two or three times a week for four to six hours at a time."

(Vincent Tinto, 1997, p.2)

1). Vincent Tinto (1997). "Universities as Learning Organizations", About Campus 1(6) January/February 1997, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/abc.v1:6/issuetoc]

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Simon Perkins
14 JULY 2012
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UK Association for Learning Technology

"Learning technology is the broad range of communication, information and related technologies that can be used to support learning, teaching, and assessment.

Founded in 1993, ALT is registered charity number 1063519. We are the UK's leading membership organisation in the learning technology field. Our purpose is to ensure that use of learning technology is effective and efficient, informed by research and practice, and grounded in an understanding of the underlying technologies, their capabilities and the situations into which they are placed.

We do this by improving practice, promoting research, and influencing policy, through bringing together practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in learning technology."

(The Association for Learning Technology, UK)

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1993 • ALT • Association for Learning Technology • e-learning • effective and efficient use of learning technology • ICT • improving practice • influencing policy • information and communication technology • instructional technology • learning design • learning support • learning technologists • learning technology • learning technology capabilities • learning technology field • membership organisation • policy makers • policy makers in learning technology • practitioners • promoting research • registered charity • related technologies • research and practice • researchers • support assessment • support teaching • technology affordances • UK • underlying technologies

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Simon Perkins
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