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 ...

Some online students are already deeply engaged as members, officers or even founders of clubs and learning communities. At the same time, others might be asking — does my school even have clubs?

The Trauma Integration Initiative (TII) Learning Community is an informal space to come together to reflect on the impact that trauma work can have on us as individuals and to share support and ...

“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 ...

The Living Learning Community building is home to nine sub-LLCs, including liberal arts. You can explore the Nevada LLC online using our virtual tour or view a video with residence hall highlights.

To help set up your asynchronous online section, consider the following ideas: Use discussion forums for weekly interaction. Create discussion prompts each week to encourage ongoing peer engagement.

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 ...

Which learning community is right for me? In order to make this decision, you need to decide what you want to get out of a learning community. Most learning communities include at least one to three ...

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 ...

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 ...