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Building Communities of Active Learners
Southwest Regional Learning Communities Conference
February
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Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor, Syracuse University
We already know too much about the conditions that promote student learning. What is often missing is the willingness of institutions to take that knowledge seriously and use it to guide institutional reform efforts. If they did, they would turn to learning communities and the collaborative learning pedagogy that underlies them to promote student learning. Professor Tinto uses data from recent studies to demonstrate why that is the case and argues that our colleges and universities must rid themselves of their practice of treating change as if it could be limited to specific parts of the student life.
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