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Atlantic Center
for Learning Communities (ACLC)
This
group offers a learning communities retreat each October with different
themes.
Learning
Communities National Learning Commons
There
are a number of resources available on this site.
Heaney,
A. (in press). The Synergy Program: Reframing critical
reading and writing
for at-risk students. Journal of Basic Writing.
Mlynarczyk,
R.W., & Babbitt, M. (2002). The power of academic learning
communities.
Journal of Basic Writing 21(1), 71-89.
Song, Bailin. (2006). Content-based ESL instruction: Long-term effects
and outcomes.
English for specific purposes 25, 420-437.
Books
Angelo,
T., & Cross, P. (1993). Classroom assessment techniques:
A handbook for
college teachers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Barkley,
E., Major, C.H., & Cross, P. (2004). Collaborative learning
techniques. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Bean,
J. C. (1996). Engaging Ideas: The professor’s guide to integrating
writing, critical
thinking, and active learning in the classroom. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.
Bess,
J.L. (2000). Teaching alone, teaching together: Transforming
the structure of
teams for teaching, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Bosworth,
K., & Hamilton, S.J. (1994). Collaborative learning: Underlying
processes
and effective techniques. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Fink,
L.D. (2003). Creating significant learning experiences. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Finkel,
D. L. (2000). Teaching with your mouth shut. Portsmouth:
Heinemann Boynton
Cook Publishers.
Kuh, G.D., Kinzie, J., Schuh, J., & Whitt, E.J. (2005). Student
Success in college:
Creating conditions that matter. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Laufgraben,
J.L., & Shapiro, N.S. (2004). Sustaining and improving learning
communities.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Leamnson,
R. (1999). Thinking about teaching and learning. Sterling,
VA: Stylus Publishing.
Levine,
J.H. (1999). Learning communities: New structures, new partnerships
for learning.
Columbia: National Center for the First-Year Experience and
Students
in Transition.
Michaelsen,
L.K., Knight, A.B., & Fink, L.D. (2004). Team-based learning:
A transformative
use of small groups in college teaching. Sterling,
VA: Stylus Publishing.
Ouellette,
M.L. (2005) Teaching inclusively: Resources for course, department
and institutional
change in higher education. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.
Pedersen,
S. (2003). Learning communities and the academic library.
Olympia, WA
: Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education,
National Learning Communities Project, Evergreen State College ;
Chicago,
IL : Association of College & Research Libraries ; Washington,
D.C. American
Association of Higher Education.
Schoem,
D. & Hurtado, S., (Eds.). (2001). Intergroup dialogue: Deliberative
democracy
in school, college, community, and workplace. Ann Arbor, MI: University
of Michigan Press.
Shapiro,
N.S., & Levine, J.H. (1999). Creating learning communities:
A practical guide
to winning support, organizing for change, and implementing programs.
San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Smilkstein,
R. (2002).We're born to learn: Using the brain's natural learning
process
to create today's curriculum. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Smith,
B.L., & McCann, J. (Eds.) (2001). Reinventing ourselves:
Interdisciplinary education,
collaborative learning, and experimentation in higher education
Bolton,
MA: Anker
Smith,
B.L., MacGregor, J., Matthews, R., & Gablenick, F. (2004). Learning
communities:
Reforming undergraduate education. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.
Sutherland,
T., & Bonwell, C.C. (1996). Using active learning in college
classes: A range
of options for faculty. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Tagg,
J. (2003). The learning college paradigm. Bolton, MA: Anker Press.
Walvoord,
B., & Anderson, V. (1998). Effective grading: A tool for learning
and assessment.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Wiggins,
G., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by design. Upper Saddle
River, NJ:
Prentice Hall.
Zull,
J.E. (2000). The art of changing the brain. Sterling, VA: Stylus
Press.
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