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Learning Communities: A Selective Overview Of Academic Library Involvement, Jean-Paul Orgeron
Learning Communities: A Selective Overview Of Academic Library Involvement, Jean-Paul Orgeron
E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)
In 1932, Alexander Meiklejohn published a book that addressed the implementation of learning communities at the University of Wisconsin in 1927. The book, The Experimental College, serves as proof of the existence of such communities well over sixty years ago. It is clear that in the mid to late 1990s learning communities have piqued the curiosities of students and teaching faculty alike. Though they go by different names at various colleges and universities, and have somewhat different components, the common idea of learning communities is to have from two to four courses linked so that the courses have the same …