Center for Teaching & Learning - Learning Communities

High Impact Practices(HIPs):

Learning Communities - Curricular

Banner Code: WLC1

Banner Description: Learning Communities - Curricular

Community College Definition: Course or course section is part of a curricular learning community, made up of students co-enrolled in two or more courses.

HIP Taxonomy: Minimum Definition of Practice

The same groups of students taking two or more classes concurrently for academic credit and engaged in a substantial amount of time in common intellectual activities, within and outside the classroom, with intentional curricular connections.

HIP Quality Assurance (QA) and Coding Packet

TBR Taxonomy Project Resources

Learning Communities Taxonomy
HIP Taxonomy Direction Sheet

List of Professional Association Resources

The National Resource Center for Learning Communities
National Learning Communities Conference (NLCC)
AACU: The Challenge of Learning Communities as a Growing National Movement

TBR HIPs Ambassadors

Andrea Green, Motlow State, agreen@mscc.edu, phone: 615-220-7947
Ryan Stembridge, Southwest Tennessee, rtstembridge@southwest.tn.edu, phone: 901-333-4256

Monthly Connection Calls with HIPs Ambassadors:

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