Call for Proposals: Learning Communities W2017
Faculty interested in integrative learning and collaborative curriculum development are invited to submit a brief proposal to participate in the W2017 phase of Learning Community project. Proposals must be submitted to Ian MacKenzie or Chris Adam by Monday, December 5, and should be kept to a single page addressing the criteria below. Up to 6…
Read More about Call for Proposals: Learning Communities W2017Meet-up for W2017 Collaborative Course Design
Dawson’s Learning Communities project is looking for teachers interested in working over the W2017 term on the collaborative design of interdisciplinary team-taught courses. If you’d like to participate, this pizza-powered meet-up on Wednesday November 17, 2.30-4pm in the CoLab 3F.43 is an opportunity to Hear more about the learning community model from teachers leading pilot…
Read More about Meet-up for W2017 Collaborative Course DesignFall Snapshots: Learning Communities in Progress
Three learning community pilot pairings (7 courses) are in progress this fall. Here’s a glimpse of what’s happening in the classrooms, and what the teachers are saying about it. *** The Journeys cluster of English, Humanities and Academic Skills is headed by Susan Briscoe, Anjali Choksi and Michelle Smith. “Our focus since our planning phase for…
Read More about Fall Snapshots: Learning Communities in ProgressLearning Communities at Long Island University-Brooklyn: A Conversation with Deborah Mutnick
On Wednesday May 11, the LC faculty teams had a Skype meeting with Deborah Mutnick from Long Island University, where Dr. Mutnick is the Director of the LIU-Brooklyn Learning Communities program. LIU-Brooklyn serves a diverse, urban and suburban student population, with an emphasis on professional programs in the health sciences and business. The LIU-Brooklyn LC…
Read More about Learning Communities at Long Island University-Brooklyn: A Conversation with Deborah MutnickDesigning Assignments for Integrative Learning
As the winter term comes to an end, the LC teams have been designing integrative assignments for their paired courses. While each individual course still proceeds via its own sequence of learning activities and assignments, at the centre of the paired course endeavour is a shared assignment that is introduced and worked on in both…
Read More about Designing Assignments for Integrative LearningWinter 2016: Learning Community Course Development
Since January, meeting every Wednesday afternoon, eight teachers have been at work on the development of four different paired-course pilots for the F2016-W2017 semesters. These paired courses – two courses, two teachers, one co-enrolled cohort – are defined by several features:
Read More about Winter 2016: Learning Community Course DevelopmentNovember 3 – Q & A with the Registrar: Scheduling Paired Courses
On November 3, Ian and Rob met with Carmela Gumelli, Dean of Academic Systems, to discuss the feasibility of running several pilot learning community course pairings for F2016. Carmela walked us through the standard procedures for scheduling, and identified some of the special needs of different programs, profiles, areas of study and certificates at Dawson. …
Read More about November 3 – Q & A with the Registrar: Scheduling Paired CoursesOctober 28-30, 2015 – Conference of the Atlantic Consortium for Learning Communities
Rob Cassidy and Ian MacKenzie attended the annual conference-retreat for ACLC colleges and universities in Hartford, CT. Joye Hardimann from Evergreen State College gave the keynote address, speaking to how inclusivity and diversity can by promoted through appreciative inquiry. Subsequent sessions over the next two days touched on integrating community-based research and service into…
Read More about October 28-30, 2015 – Conference of the Atlantic Consortium for Learning CommunitiesOctober 16, 2015: Ped Day – Faculty Collaboration for Integrative Learning
This learning communities Ped Day session attracted more than 30 participants. Lead presenters included Carl Saucier-Bouffard and Geoff Pearce, who spoke about their joint efforts to extend learning beyound the classroom. They were joined by Anne Goodsell Love (Wagner College, NY) and Steve Henle (Concordia), who shared their experiences and insights regarding curricular learning communities…
Read More about October 16, 2015: Ped Day – Faculty Collaboration for Integrative LearningOctober 8, 2015 – Wicked Problems and Integrative Learning
The meeting of October 8 examined attempts by Dawson faculty to put wicked problems at the centre of course work, and also the obstacles to designing truly interdisciplinary and integrative learning experiences. Carl Saucier-Bouffard and Geoffrey Pearce talked about a Reflections & Environmental Studies field trip to the oil refinery district in Montreal-Est. Participating on…
Read More about October 8, 2015 – Wicked Problems and Integrative Learning3:19 pm
