Learning Communities Proposal Form

Semester and Year

Linked Course

This consists of two or more courses for which students co-register. Faculty work together to coordinate syllabi and/or assignments. Faculty will individually teach their own courses, however they will co-facilitate a blended class at least four times during the semester.

Applicant Information

  

  



  

  

List specific courses in your Learning Community and include your “stand-alone” course syllabi:

  

  

  

  

  

  

Learning Community Title and Theme (should be attractive to students):


Description of Learning Community (for use in publications):


Describe how these courses will link together to support the theme of your learning community:


Why do you think students will benefit from being involved in this Learning Community?


How do you intend to build a sense of community in this class?


Preferred times/days for learning community:


Identify any special facilities, equipment, space requirements, computer resources, etc., that your learning community will require.

Which student groups on campus should receive recruiting materials about your learning community: Identify any special facilities, equipment, space requirements, computer resources, etc., that your learning community will require.










Expectations of all Learning Community Facilitators:
(Your signature at the bottom indicates your willingness to fulfill these expectations.)
  1. Learning Community teams will complete the compatibility survey.

  2. Everyone on this team agrees to attend two meetings with the Learning Community Coordinator and Director of Faculty and Staff Development [one at the beginning of the semester and one at the end of the semester]

  3. Team faculty will participate in the college-wide assessment plan.

  4. Team facilitators will allow members of the learning community committee to administer a survey regarding learning communities and lead a short discussion with students in your learning community during the last quarter of the course. This should take no longer than 30 minutes of class time. Faculty will leave the classroom while the survey and discussion take place. The Learning Community Committee will provide feedback to the faculty. The purpose of the survey and short discussion is to obtain feedback from the students about the effectiveness of Learning Communities concept.

  5. Team facilitators report about their Pilot Semester Spring 2007 experience to colleagues during the KCKCC Summer Institute on Learning Communities.

  6. Team facilitators are willing to mentor faculty who are interested in developing learning communities.
Please include:
  1. A copy of your existing syllabi for each of the "stand-alone" courses.
  2. A copy of a linked syllabus specific to the desired outcomes of combining these courses.
  3. A detailed course calendar for the linked courses. This plan should demonstrate how you will coordinate activities that reflect your individual syllabi with the common outcomes of your learning community.
FINALLY:

You need to obtain the approval of the Division Dean for each course in the Learning Community. The signature of your coordinator is necessary to indicate that they have been informed about this project.




  
  


Subject Heading Should Read:  Learning Communities Proposal: Syllabus and Calendar


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