learning@maricopa.edu

	MARICOPA'S LEADERSHIP AND INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION AGENDA for the 90's have been focused on securing Learning as our core value so we can live all the dimensions and diversity of the past, present, and future. We also hope that the dynamics of learning can help us address challenges and issues with creative, systemic, and integrated approaches, choices, and solutions. We invite you to be an active participant in our conversations and quest to learn more about Learning and how to nurture and sustain Learning! NOTE: This project is no longer active and this site is left here only for historical note and a desire not to create dead links.		Presentation at Learning Paradigm conference. Dynamic Discussions from Convocation 2000 Announcement of Maricopa Institute for Learning (MIL) second year fellows.

Quotes About Learning

System: A system is a perceived whole whose elements "hang together" because they continually affect each other over time and operate toward a common purpose. Examples of systems include the human body, ecological niches, and all organizations.
Arthur Kleiner, Innovation Associates

Faculty know there's a problem indeed with learning...and they know it will take more than a new mantra to turn that around.
Ted Marchese, American Association of Higher Education

It's not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.
Linda Conway

Background Information
about the learning@maricopa.edu project

October 1997 paper
by the ACE Project team, including a history of the project
October 1997 Letter to Maricopa Employees
inviting them to participate in the November 1997 Open Space Meeting.
learning@maricopa.edu
our name is also our email address for specific questions
Maricopa Learning Project: What's it all about?
by Naomi Story (appearing in the Labyrinth-Forum, Spring 1997)
A Journey of Learning
presented at March 2000 Learning Paradigm conference.

Open Space Forums (OSF)
a process for generating disscussion and ideas within our system. Notes and photos from the meetings are available for each forum. A compilation of notes from all forums (1997-1999) is available as a 460k Acrobat document.

Related Net Resources

Policy Governance The End Statements of the Governing Board describe the organizational outcomes for learners at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
Creating a Learning College A compendium of resources from the PBS Adult Learning Services and League of Innovation, including a listserv discussion.
American Council on Education A sponsor of this project, through ACE's initative for Leadership And Institutional Transformation, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Learning College Project The League of Innovation in the Community College created this project to "assist community colleges in the United States and Canada to become more learning centered by creating a network of 10 Vanguard Colleges strongly committed to the Learning College concept, whose efforts can serve as a basis for model programs and best practices."
Toward Becoming a Learner-Centered College System by Maricopa Chancellor, Paul A. Elsner, January, 1996, this document reviews the early work of the PEW Roundtable.
National Teaching and Learning Forum a publication and web site resource that provides "stimulating insight from colleagues eager to share new ways of helping students reach the highest levels of learning."

learning@maricopa.edu
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
Maricopa Community Colleges

the 'net connection at MCLI is Alan Levine
send web site comments to alan.levine@domail.maricopa.edu
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last modified: Jul 17, 2002

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