Learning Community Planning Guide

1. Identify Courses to be Integrated

2. Identify Faculty to be Involved

3. Describe Characteristics of Student Population

4. Specify Reason for Integration

5. Select Type of Integration

Linked activities
Linked courses
Seamless courses
Other (specify)

6. Consider Co-Enrollment

Will co-enrollment be required?
Will all students or will only a subset of students co-enroll?

7. Plan Co-Teaching

Will instructors be available during all course times?
Will instructors observe each other's classes?
Will there be team teaching?

8. Design Co-Learning

Will there be one or more joint learning activities?
When will these activities occur?

9. Plan Co-Assessment

Will assignments be separately graded for each course?
Will there be common assessment but different weighting of grades for each course?
Will a single grade be used for all courses?

10. Chart Parallels Across Courses to be Integrated

11. Begin to Develop a Framework for your Integration

What will be the major unifying force?

1. parallel concepts -- table or chart
2. overlapping concepts -- venn diagram
3. content course with skill courses -- triangle
4. common project -- flowchart or diagram
5. common theme -- ??