“Community” is a hot buzzword, referring to everything from a physical neighborhood to a cohort of people rallying around a purpose or shared interest. As observed in Harvard Business Review: “The ...

Living Learning Communities (LLCs) have long been recognized as a best practice within higher education and academia, to support student learning and to deepen belonging for residential students. LLCs ...

Gertrude Stein was wrong: a rose is not necessarily a rose. Calling something a rose doesn’t make it a rose. Take the example of learning communities, one of the high-impact practices that contributes ...

Experiential learning has been used extensively and is popular in education (Bradford, 2019; Hoover & Whitehead, 1975). Experiential learning theory is reflected in the work of several scholars "John ...

Damon Lembi is CEO of LearnIt, a leading L&D organization helping business leaders throughout the world develop their teams. Have you ever walked out of a great workshop, event, boot camp or retreat ...

Marcela Falcone is in her 20 th year as a 3rd grade bilingual teacher in the Brentwood school district on Long Island in New York. She previously taught pre-K, 1 st grade, and 2 nd grade. Follow her ...

When students take a course, they experience more than just an interaction with course content. The learning environment includes the intellectual, social, emotional and physical environments of a ...

As education becomes more an experience of learning in the digital age, technologies play a pivotal role in reshaping the learning experiences of K-12 students. From interactive applications to ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is a professional learning community and how can educators build one? Teaching can be an isolated profession—we’re in our rooms all day with students. Students ...