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Improving Integration of Learning in Learning Communities Through the Development of a Shared Learning Space

Presented by: Emily Richardson richardsone2@queens.edu Director of the Hayworth Center for Online Learning; CATO School of Education Faculty Shawn Bowers bowerss@queens.edu English Department Faculty Queens University of Charlotte

Comprehensive Liberal Arts University in Charlotte, NC Undergraduate population: 1641 35% Minority 6% International 28% Adult 30% First generation 41 majors 62 minors 11 graduate programs

About Queens

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At a Glance: Learning Com m unities

Learning Community Topic

x50 Creativity & Innovation x40 Science & Society x30 Institutions & Society x20 Individuals & Society

Learning Community Themes

• Storytelling
• Power
• Human Journey
• Sustainability
• Immigration
• Regionalism (ie: The New South)
• Food Systems
• Social Justice
• Identity & Diversity
• Gender, Race, & Culture

QLC: The Quest for Your Identity

• Fall 2017
• QLC 220: Spiritual Storytelling
• QLC 230: Your family history:

discovering who you are

• QLC 240: Who are you Born to

Be? The Science Underlying Identity

• QLC 250: Jazz: America’s musical

identity

QLC: The New South

• Spring 2018
• QLC 230: Politics of the New

South

• QLC 250: The Landscape of

Identity

• QLC 260: Intro Stats: the New

South

Learning Community Topic

x50 Innovation & Creativity x60 Quantitative Literacy x30 Institution s & Society

Student Feedback: Improving the Integrative Assignment

• Faculty need to model integration
• Faculty need to be united front (regarding due dates, messaging, etc.)
• Appropriately scaffold the assignment
• Create space for collaboration
• Provide distinct guidelines for all deliverables
• Be clear about expectations

Questions & Discussion