Rationale

Rationale - Learning Community Initiativ
OLN Learning Community Members collaboratively said that their 5 most compelling reasons for joining a Learning Community are:
  1. What we're doing now isn't working.
  2. Makes sustainability more possible.
  3. Less power structure to foster collaboration. Positive peer pressure.
  4. Broader impact. New ideas.
  5. Can ultimately give you benchmarks and statistics to actually see where you're going.

Why join a cohort-based faculty learning community?
Members of the communities will emerge with a tangible outcome: a paper presented at a conference, a publication, evidence of the success of a new skill measured with appropriate measures, new resources, connections with other teachers who have similar interests, friendships, and skill in the scholarship of teaching. -University of Miami (Florida)

From the Learning Communities Directory Report 52 out of 266 institutions responded to the question: Why was this learning community initiative started at your institution?

Individual OLN Learning Community Members said:
  • "Our entire learning community enjoyed the opportunity to work together and learn from people in fields and disciplines different from our own. We are all sad that our LC is nearing the end!"
  • "We learned a lot (and we continue to learn)! We plan to continue to learn more."
  • "This has been an incredibly valuable experience. I feel more technologically savvy as a result of our work together."
  • "I've developed a recognition of a greater need for reflection about teaching practices and an urge to ground decision-making about learning initiatives in research-based thinking rather than "best practices" thinking (i.e. common sense)."
  • "We're changing the way we address problems as faculty and librarians --working not as individuals but as teams for the benefit of our students. A refreshing change."
  • "We do more thinking and productive work than I have ever done before with such a group, and our products will, I believe, be stellar."


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