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We represent learning communities at the Maricopa Community Colleges as this garden of prickly pear cacti. They have special needs to survive the desert
climate. But when nurtured, they flourish and bear beautiful fruit and flowers.
"Integrated Learning
Communities...
are intentional curriculum restructuring efforts that thematically link or
cluster during a given term and enroll a cohort of students. Learning
Communities
aim to provide students with greater curricular coherence, and to provide both
students and faculty an opportunity for increased intellectual interaction and
shared inquiry."
-- Washington Center News, Spring 1995
 More Things from the Maricopa Garden
Building Communities of Active Learners
Southwest Regional Learning Communities Conference (February 28 - March 1, 2002)
A regional conference organized by the Maricopa Community Colleges and Arizona State University in collaboration with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), and the National Learning Communities Project, Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, The Evergreen State College
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/events/lcc02/
Learning Communities: Getting Started
An MCLI Monograph by Geri Rasmussen and Elizabeth Skinner, GateWay Community College. The entire monograph is available for downloading and printing. The monograph has been recognized for inclusion as a resource in the ERIC database.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ilc/monograph/
Chandler-Gilbert Community College Learning Communities
provides an overview, resources, and links to implemenations of Learning Commuunities at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.
http://www.cgc.maricopa.edu/pecos/academics/learning_communities/
Paradise Valley Community College Learning Communities
provides links to implemenations of Learning Commuunities at Paradise Valley Community College.
http://www2.pvc.maricopa.edu/is/
Teachers Today and Tomorrow (T3)
from the Williams Campus of Chandler-Gilbert Community College, "The Williams Campus provides a unique opportunity to create an academic village and innovative learning environment that is personal, supportive, and focused on making your educational experience a successful one. Our learning community, which integrates First Year Composition, Introduction to Education, and computer technology, is designed to encourage you to research, read, write, view, and discuss topics focused around the theme of 'Teachers Today and Tomorrow.'"
http://www.cgc.maricopa.edu/williams/block/
Link Up! GCC Learning Communities
from Glendale Community College Community College, includes partially and and fully linked learning communities-- courses that are team-taught grouped around a common theme where students interact with faculty and a small group of peers.
http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/linkup/
The Labyrinth-Forum Fall 1996
an issue devoted Integrated Learning Communities. The Labyrinth-Forum is published by MCLI's twice yearly with faculty written articles addressing on teaching, learning and technology.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/labyforum/Fall96/
More Things from the Other Gardens
California Learning Community Consortium (CLCC)
"is designed to support and coordinate the development of interdisciplinary 'learning
community' programs at the K-12, community college and four-year college and university levels in California."
http://www.learningcommunity.org/
National Learning Communities Project
from Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education at the Evergreen College.
http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/
Electronic Learning Communities
"The ELC Group in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology is led by Assistant Professor Amy Bruckman. Our research focuses on the design of communities on the Internet. Our work is inspired by an educational theory called constructionism Ð the idea that people learn best when they are making something that is personally meaningful to them."
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/
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