Recommended Resources (Books and Articles)

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• Smith, Barbara Leigh, Jean MacGregor, Roberta Matthews, Faith Gabelnick. Learning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2004. [0-7879-10368]  LB2331 .L392 2004 
• Laufgraden, Jodi Levine and Nancy Shapiro.  Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. [0-7879-60543] LB2341 .L245 2004
• Kuh,Goerge D., Jillian Kinzie, John H. Schuh, Elizabeth J. Whitt,  et al. Student Success in College: Creating Conditions that Matter.  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2005  [0-7879-7914-7] LB2343.32 .S79 2005
• Shapiro, Nancy S. and Jodi H. Levine. Creating Learning Communities: A Practical Guide to Winning Support, Organizing for Change, and Implementing Programs. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1999 [0787944629] LB2331 .S473 1999
• Fink, L Dee. Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003 [0787960551] LB2331 .F495 2003
• Cox, Milton and Richlin, Lavine, eds.  Building Faculty Learning Communities. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004 [0-7879-7568 0] LB1025.2 .N456 no.97 
• Retallck, John, Barry Cocklin, and Kennece Coombe.  Learning Communities in Education: Issues, Strategies, and Contexts.  London: Routledge, 1999  [0-415-19760-0]
  LB14.7.L43 1999
• Bloom, Dan and Colleen Sommo. Building Learning Communities: Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration at Kingsborough Community College. 2005 [pdf]
• Foster, Lenar. The Practice of Educational Leadership in African American Communities of Learning: Context, Scope, and Meaning. Educational Administration Quarterly. 2005
  [full text] R
• Stassen, Martha L.A. Student Outcomes: The Impact of Varying Living-Learning Community Models. Research in Higher Education. 2003 [full text] R

Supplemental Resources

• Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges
• New Directions for Teaching and Learning - Volume 2004, Issue 97: Special Issue: Building Faculty Learning Communities R
• New Learning Environment of Linear Algebra in Korea
• Interactive Geometry and Multivariable Calculus on the Internet
• Building Collaborative Learning Communities through Electronic Communication Tools
• Online Learning: The First Year Biology Way
• Designing Effective Science Inquiry in Text-based Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Environments
• Post-secondary Educators' Professional Development: Investigation of an Online Approach to Enhancing Teaching and Learning

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