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Environmental Scan
- Inertia- "This is the way we've done it before so why change?"
- Department negativity.
- Time. No reward structure. Loss of attention and participation.
- Resulting from being voluntary, membership can be comprised of the usual suspects or people with the wrong expertise.
- Resources.
Thinking Ahead and Preparing for Future Work:
Using SWOT Analysis, think ahead and assess what your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats might be while working in your learning community. Use the chart for helpful prompts.
| Helpful to achieving the objective | Harmful to achieving the objective | |
| Internal attributes of the individual or organization | Strengths What do you do well? What unique resources can you draw on? How can we use each strength? | Weakness What could you improve? Where do you have fewer resources than others? How can we stop each weakness? |
| External attributes of the environment | Opportunities What good opportunities are open to you? How can you turn your strengths into opportunities? How can we exploit each opportunity? | Threats What trends could harm you? What threats do your weaknesses expose? How can we defend against each threat? |
Are there pre-existing policies in place that might affect your budget or other aspects of your work?
Are there similar initiatives on your campus that could act as a sounding board or resource?
Are their other committees with overlapping goals? How will this affect your work?
Opinion leaders, do you have their support?
Is there a history of Learning Communities on your campus or even within your department?
OLN Learning Communities said that the realities of higher education that need attended to are:
- Fear of change, fear of taking risks.
- A traditionally competitive reward structure.
- Academia does not change quickly, so you must be able to show successes to get people to change.
- Tenure.
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