Living-Learning Programs: One High-Impact Educational Practice We Now Know a Lot about

Autor/inn/en	Brower, Aaron M.; Inkelas, Karen Kurotsuchi
Titel	Living-Learning Programs: One High-Impact Educational Practice We Now Know a Lot about
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 96 (2010) 2, S.36-43 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Learner Engagement; Colleges; Learning Strategies; Educational Practices; Educational Experience; General Education; Higher Education; College Students; College Faculty; Outcomes of Education; Academic Achievement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Bildungspraxis; Bildungserfahrung; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Schulleistung
Abstract	The Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) provides substance and direction to President Obama's American Graduation Initiative, which seeks to encourage more students to obtain baccalaureate degrees. The LEAP initiative defines the practical and aspirational goals of an undergraduate degree, as well as the educational experiences that lead to the achievement of those goals. LEAP's combination of essential learning outcomes--learning how to learn, how to distinguish good information from bad, how to frame and solve complex problems, how to work with others, and learning about the world and one's place within it--and "high-impact" educational practices outlines straightforward experiences and opportunities that produce the kinds of skills and abilities needed by citizens of the world. Moreover, the high-impact practices not only help all students learn, but they also have compensatory benefits for students from groups that, historically, have underachieved in higher education. In this article, the authors summarize what they know about residential learning communities, more broadly called living-learning programs (LLPs), based on results from the National Study of Living-Learning Programs. LLPs create comprehensive in- and out-of-class learning environments that engender the type of student engagement with faculty, peers, and curricula that the authors hope happens in college. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10