Learning communites are communities that intend to restructure a student's time, credit, and learning experiences. The University of Memphis has a learning community program called "fresh connections" it allows up to 25 students to take courses together in their first semester. If the University had better learning community programs for engineering students, the drop out rate of engineering students could be reduced.
Learning communites are communities that intend to restructure a student's time, credit, and learning experiences. The University of Memphis has a learning community program called "fresh connections" it allows up to 25 students to take courses together in their first semester. If the University had better learning community programs for engineering students, the drop out rate of engineering students could be reduced.
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Learning communites are communities that intend to restructure a student's time, credit, and learning experiences. The University of Memphis has a learning community program called "fresh connections" it allows up to 25 students to take courses together in their first semester. If the University had better learning community programs for engineering students, the drop out rate of engineering students could be reduced.
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Learning communites are communities that intend to restructure a student's
time, credit, and learning experiences to build community among students,
between students and teachers, and among faculty members and disciplines. Many schools across the nation use a variety of approaches to build these learning communities. According to the Washington Center, there are three general types of learning communites, which are :
•Student Cohorts/Integrative Seminar
-Learning communities that are structured as programs in which
a small cohort of students enroll in larger classes tha faculty do not coordinate. Things such as intellectual connections and community building often take place in an additional to integrative seminare
•Linked Courses/ Course Clusters
-Learnining commuinities that may involve two or more classes
linked thematically or by content which a cohort of students takes together. The faculty plans the program collaboratively
•Coordinated Study
-Learning communities that may involve coursework that faculty
team teach. The course work is embedded in an integrated program of study
The University of Memphis has a learning community program called "Fresh
Conneciton" , which is considered to be a Coordinated Study learning community. It allows up to 25 students to take courses together in their first semester. In this program, it includes two learning communities that engineering students can enroll in: Honors STEM and Entry to Engineering. The Entry to Engineering learning community includes the following classes:
-Introduction to the University
-English Compositon
and Honor STEM learning community includes the following classes:
-Honors Calculus I
-Honors Math Seminar
-General Chemistry I
-General Chemistry I Lab
The problems that with these learning communities are: Are the learning community programs for engineering students at The University of Memphis in need of improvement. If so, why and what ways.
If The University of Memphis had better learning community programs for
engineering students, the drop out rate of engineering students could be reduced. Ways these communites can be improved are:
-more related classes included in the program curriculm
-increase in the limit of students that join
Although the program has a "Continuing Connection", which extends Fresh
Connections, it does not extends the program for engineering students