Building academic skills and information competency through learning communities

Colleges are finding new ways to incorporate technology skills and information competency into the curriculum. One method used successfully at several campuses involves a coordinated curriculum in which two or more faculty members collaborate to offer a linked group of classes that combine the objectives and course requirements such that students benefit from having an integrated curriculum. This paper describes several of these learning communities and how they benefited community college students and faculty.

The complete issue of the journal from which this paper is taken is indexed at TD/TNC 74.444.

Colleges are finding new ways to incorporate technology skills and information competency into the curriculum. One method used successfully at several campuses involves a coordinated curriculum in which two or more faculty members collaborate to offer a linked group of classes that combine the objectives and course requirements such that students benefit from having an integrated curriculum. This paper describes several of these learning communities and how they benefited community college students and faculty.

The complete issue of the journal from which this paper is taken is ...  [+] Show more