| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 354 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Audience for This Book -- How to Use This Book -- New Data: The "100-Institution Survey" -- Definition of Concepts and Key Terminology -- What Is Community? -- What Are LCs? -- What Are the Three Primary Types of LCs? -- What Are Powerful LCs? -- What Is "True Community"? -- Why Create LCs? -- 1. Scope And Types Of LCs -- Scope of LCs -- Factors/Facets of LCs -- Membership -- Delivery Format -- Duration -- Typology of LCs -- LC Subtypes for Membership Facet -- Learning Organizations (LOs) -- Professional LCs (PLCs) -- Student LCs (SLCs) -- Conclusion -- For Reflection -- 2. Preparing For Powerful LCs -- Creating Purposeful LCs That Are Powerful -- Conducting an Environmental Scan -- Principles for Design of Powerful LCs -- Designing Powerful LCs -- Building Partnerships to Support Powerful LC Development -- Developing an Effective Partnership Between Academic and Student Affairs -- Developing an Effective Partnership With Institutional Research/Student Assessment -- Selecting Members -- Conclusion -- For Reflection -- 3. Creating And Implementing Optimal Face-To-Face, Virtual, And Hybrid LCs -- Comparison of Outcomes in Face-to-Face, Virtual, and Hybrid LCs -- Essential Processes Common to All Three Delivery Modes -- Planning and Preparation of Powerful LCs -- Implementing and Operating Powerful LCs -- Sustaining and Improving Powerful LCs -- Essential Processes Unique to Face-to-Face LCs -- Essential Processes Unique to Online LCs -- Essential Processes Unique to Hybrid LCs -- Conclusion -- For Reflection -- 4. Conceptual Frameworks For Creating Powerful LCs -- Focusing on Learning in LCs -- Meaning -- Practice -- Community -- Identity -- Instructional Design Frameworks -- Holistic Frameworks -- Development Frameworks -- Overall Guiding Framework in the Creation of Powerful LC Strategies -- Information Gathering -- Building Understanding -- Productive Thinking -- Strategic and Reflective Thinking -- Conclusion -- For Reflection -- 5. Achieving Optimal Student Success Through Powerful SLCs, PLCs, And LOs -- Developing Powerful SLCs -- Relevant 100-Institution Survey Revelations -- Exemplary SLCs of Different Types and Pertinent Suggestions -- Additional Suggestions for Building Powerful SLCs -- Developing Powerful PLCs -- Relevant 100-Institution Survey Revelations -- Exemplary Institutional PLCs With Broader Membership -- Exemplary Institutional Faculty, Staff, and Administrator PLCs -- Exemplary PLCs Across Institutions -- Suggestions for Building Powerful PLCs -- Developing Powerful LOs -- Relevant 100-Institution Survey Revelations -- Exemplary LOs -- Suggestions for Building Powerful LOs -- Conclusion -- For Reflection -- 6. Creating Legal And Ethical LCs -- Membership and Access -- LC Membership Issues -- LC Access Issues -- Relationships -- Promoting Positive, Healthy Relationships Within the Community -- Relationships Between the LC Coordinator and Members -- Member-to-Member Relationships -- Integrity, Privacy, and Liability -- LC Content and Communications -- Liability -- Conclusion -- For Reflection -- 7. Assessment Guidelines For Different Types Of LCs -- Connections to Research -- Connecting Assessment and Learning -- Three Essential Findings About Learning -- Critique of Current Efforts -- Assessment Cycle -- Strategies for Assessment to Create Powerful LCs -- Identify Desired Results -- Determine Acceptable Evidence -- Collect Needed Evidence -- Analyze and Interpret the Evidence -- Discuss and Use Results -- Review Desired Results, Evidence Needed, and Other Steps of the Assessment Cycle -- Conclusion -- For Reflection -- 8. Preventing And Addressing Potential Problems -- Overcoming Potential Problems for LC Success -- Administrative -- Assessment -- Curricular -- Faculty/Staff Participation -- Faculty/Staff Interaction -- Collaboration -- Recruitment -- Logistical -- Student Conduct -- Other Potential Problems -- Conclusion -- For Reflection -- APPENDICES: A Note About the Appendices -- Appendix A Colleges And Universities Selected For The 100-Institution Survey -- Appendix B Compendium Of Key Factors Recommended In The Research To Build Powerful LCs -- Appendix C Powerful Lc Planning Form -- I. Setting the Stage -- II. Designing Powerful LCs (Blueprint) -- III. Building Powerful LCs (Foundation) -- IV. Assessing and Sustaining Powerful LCs -- Appendix D Experiential Evidence That Face-To-Face And Virtual LCs Depend On The Same Principles And Techniques -- Appendix E 100-Institution Survey Responses Regarding What Makes The Institutions' Slcs Unique Or Innovative And Effective/Powerful -- Figure E.1 How the institutions' SLCs are unique or innovative -- Figure E.2 What helps make the institutions' SLCs effective/powerful -- Appendix F Key Laws And Legal Resources Impacting LCs -- Table F.1 Membership and access laws and legal resources related to LCs -- Table F.2 Relationship laws and legal resources related to LCs -- Table F.3 Ownership, privacy, and liability laws and legal resources related to LCs. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Professional learning communities -- United States.
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Professional learning communities. |
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United States. |
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College teachers -- In-service training -- United States.
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College teachers -- In-service training. |
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Teacher-student relationships -- United States.
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Teacher-student relationships. |
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College teachers. |
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EDUCATION -- Higher. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Tinto, Vincent, writer of the foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Powerful learning communities. 1st ed. Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2013 1579225810 (DLC) 2012026180 |
| ISBN |
9781461951919 (electronic book) |
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1461951917 (electronic book) |
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1579225810 (electronic book) |
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9781579225810 (electronic book) |
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9781579225797 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1579225799 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781579225803 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1579225802 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781579225827 (consumer e-edition) |
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1579225829 (consumer e-edition) |
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