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learning@maricopa.edu |
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Bob Bendotti (Paradise Valley Community College) bob.bendotti@pvmail.maricopa.edu |
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Donna Gaudet (1997 Rio Salado faculty, now at Mesa) Ann Brandt-Williams, Glendale Faculty (review board) Albert Celoza, Phoenix College Faculty (review board) Marilyn Cristiano, Paradise Valley Faculty (review board) Rick Effland, Mesa Faculty (review board) Patricia Medeiros, Scottsdale Faculty (review board) Charles Pflanz, Scottsdale Faculty (review board) |
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Chandler-Gilbert Community College Estrella Mountain Community College GateWay Community College Glendale Community College Mesa Community College Paradise Valley Community College Phoenix College Rio Salado College Scottsdale Community College South Mountain Community College |
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summary |
Through input from Maricopa instructional councils in 1997, this paper was the start of a process to describe and discuss what learning is at Maricopa. |
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learning@maricopa.edu is about learning and the convergent influences that effect it. It is about creating dialogues that lead to discovery, new knowledge, innovation and, ultimately, transformation. It is also about how our work as educators will continue to change as a result of the "new knowledge" and compelling forces in and around our profession. Finally, learning@maricopa.edu questions how we, as individuals and as an organization, will choose to define learning in the future. We designed learning@maricopa.edu to function as a provocateur. We will offer a description of learning, raise questions about current practices, revisit fundamental assumptions, and pose questions with the purpose of soliciting feedback. This is done within the context of collegiality and with a deep reverence for academic freedom. For those involved in, connected to, and served by higher education, there is no dialogue more important than the one focused on learning. It is an ongoing discussion that requires critical inquiry. It calls on us to reflect upon our profession and our fidelity to our personal mission and that of the Maricopa Community College District (MCCD). Ultimately, we may even question the authenticity of our work. Such dialogue challenges our own ability to learn and change within the context of the organizational cultures of our colleges and the MCCD. It calls on us to employ higher level skills -- analysis, synthesis, evaluation, imagination and systems thinking -- to achieve a deeper understanding of a complex process. This document is intended to serve as a starting point for such dialogue. It focuses on the following major themes that were abstracted from responses to the Maricopa Roundtable Policy Perspectives paper and the discussions that followed it: * Dialogue about learning is important, given that changes are occurring in and around the learning process. * A common understanding of learning as a complex process provides a valuable framework for dialogue. * Learning is best understood from a systems perspective in which the various components of learning "hang together," and support holistic and cohesive opportunities for change. While we offer personal insights, descriptions and suggestions, we do not purport to have "answers." We believe that definitive, singular answers about learning invariably miss the mark because learning is far too complex to be subject to reductionism. It is the very complexity of the synergistic relationships between psychology, cognitive science, technology, biology, and organizational development that makes "learning about learning" such an exhilarating experience. We believe it is far more informing to explore learning as a dynamic and transformational process, and sharpen our understanding of the relationships that influence it. In the spirit of collegiality, we invite members of the Maricopa community to engage in an ongoing dialogue about learning. We encourage the use of this document, along with other resources, to expand the dialogue among MCCD Faculty, administrators, staff, governing board members, students and external constituencies. Readers are also encouraged to act on what they may learn during this process so that our classrooms, real and virtual, and the system that supports learning within MCCD may be transformed. Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback via the comments form below. |
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http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learning/pubs/oct97/ http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learning/ http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learning/events/index.html http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/papers/index.php?yr=0203&id=1 |
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learning@maricopa.edu (document) Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback below. |
comments |
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shareback |
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Last modified: Nov-18-2004 Date created: Sep-05-2003 Visitor count: 3353 Dublin Core Metadata record  This package is included in the Innovation of the Year Awards 2003 special collection. |
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