Building Communities of Active Learners

Southwest Regional Learning Communities Conference
February

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COMBINED SESSION:
What's Hot and What's Not
FACILITATOR: Maria Harper-Marinick, Maricopa Community Colleges

Hot Links, Weak Links, and Missing Links
Glendale Community College
Amanda Dunnagan, Nancy Siefer, Charlotte Cohen, Johnnie Clemens May, Niall McCarthy, Kim Keck, Charles F. Jeffery, Molly McCloy, James Buhanan

This will be an interactive, collaborative session led by a campus-wide Glendale Community College panel consisting of an advisor, a librarian, a student, several English faculty, a Business and Technology faculty, a Learning Communities Coordinator, and an Administrator. This panel will facilitate a discussion about what works and what needs improvement in a comprehensive learning communities model like the one offered at Glendale Community College. Throughout the session, participants will have a chance to look at Glendale Community College's framework to discover and assess their own hot, weak, and missing links.
    contact information:amanda.dunnagan@gcmail.maricopa.edu

NOTE: this session is combined with the following session

Comparing Two Models for Integrating Curriculum: Academic and Vocational
GateWay Community College
Dean Stover, Martha Bergin, Elizabeh Skinner, Geri Rasmussen

The presenters were part of a team that received a Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) federal grant to integrate general education courses into a vocational program using an occupational problem-based learning model developed at Southern Illinois University Medical School. Based on that experience, and their seven years experience with learning communities using the academic Evergreen model, the presenters will discuss the benefits and challenges of these two very different models and perspectives for integrating curriculum. Participants will be asked to brainstorm possible problem-based scenarios for academic learning communities.
    contact information:dean.stover@gwmail.maricopa.edu