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learning@maricopa.edu - October 1997 Publication

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Delving Deeper Into Learning
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Organizational learning is learning that occurs as a result of an infrastructure and support that expands learning beyond the individual level. Its three core activities include research, practice and capacity-building.

Peter Senge, Society for Organizational Learning

The insights we provide about learning are not revolutionary. We recognize that those involved in the education process have always, to some degree, reflected on the various components of learning.

What may be revolutionary, however, is the consideration of learning from a systems perspective. We encourage you to think about the characteristics of learning in terms of the relationships, synergy and opportunities they suggest to the whole Maricopa system. We invite you to draw connecting lines, look for patterns, and think in terms of how the MCCD might go about creating organizational settings that foster deep and lasting student learning. We add to the dialogue the following observations:



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