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Building Communities of Active Learners
Southwest Regional Learning Communities Conference
February
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COMBINED SESSION:
FACILITATOR: Jonelle Moore, Mesa Community College, Maricopa Community Colleges
Yavapai College
Mary Verbout, Tania Sheldahl, Dave Gorman, Gennie Fuemueller, Kaye Peterson
During the Fall 2001 semester, we combined five courses to create our developmental learning community. Students were enrolled in Fundamentals of Math, Intermediate Reading Improvement, Fundamentals of Computing, Career and Life Planning, and Basic Writing Skills. We accidentally did some things correctly, and we learned lessons that we are going to apply to our next developmental block in Fall 2002.
contact information:mary_verbout@yavapai.cc.az.us NOTE: this session is combined with the following session
The University of Toledo
Margaret Fritz
The workshop will include a brief description of rebuilding developmental education into a learning community at The University of Toledo. As a result of forming Orientation and Learning Strategy "Combo" courses for developmental and undecided students, instructors tried to find experiences within these courses that would unite the students in the course, with other students, and with other professors. The experience described in this presentation involves one such class that, after finding the library presentation less than helpful, decided to make a video. The video is now used in all the orientation courses, which makes these students recognizable. The professors also challenge their students to find a need and to create the solution. The audience will be shown the videotape and discuss problems students can solve that will help build the learning community.
contact information:mfritz@utnet.utoledo.edu
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