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Article: ERIC review: learning communities at the Community College.(community colleges much work out the problems that arise with the use of learning communities)
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- Community College Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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Beginning in the early 1990s, learning communities (LCs)--deliberate restructuring of the curriculum to build a community of learners among students and faculty (Smith & Hunter, 1988)--began to be added to the curricular offerings at both two- and four-year colleges across the nation. LCs have been lauded as a major transformation in the way colleges approach curricular reform concerning teaching and learning (Cross, 1998; O'Banion, 1997). Although LCs have been praised, there continues to be a lively debate among community college educators as they examine this innovation and assess how it might help them serve a changing and diverse population of learners.
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