Powerful learning communities : a guide to developing student, faculty, and professional learning communities to improve student success and organizational effectiveness / Oscar T. Lenning [and others] ; foreword by Vincent Tinto.

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Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Vincent Tinto -- Introduction: Why write this book? -- 1. The scope and types of LCs -- 2. Preparing for powerful LCs -- 3. Creating and implementing optimal face-to-face, virtual, and hybrid LCs -- 4. Conceptual frameworks for creating powerful LCs -- 5. Achieving optimal student success through powerful SLCs, PLCs, and LOs -- 6. Creating legal and ethical LCs -- 7. Assessment guidelines for different types of LCs -- 8. Preventing and addressing potential problems -- Appendices -- Appendix A. Colleges and universities selected for the 100-institution survey -- Appendix B. Compendium of key factors recommended in the research to build powerful LCs -- Appendix C. Powerful LC planning form -- Appendix D. Experiential evidence that face-to-face and virtual LCs depend on the same principles and techniques -- Appendix E. 100-institution survey responses regarding what makes the institutions' SLCs unique or innovative and effective/powerful -- Appendix F. Key laws and legal resources impacting LCs -- References -- About the authors -- Index -- Additional appendices -- Appendix G.A brief history of LCs -- Appendix H.A call for and evidence of educational change -- Appendix I. Within-class LCs defined -- Appendix J. More details about learning pertaining to delivery formats for SLCs -- Appendix K. The role of conceptual frameworks in LCs -- Appendix L. Website URLs pertaining to LCs for 100-institution survey colleges and universities -- Appendix M. Examples of institutional LC support materials.

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