Learning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)

Learning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) by Smith, Barbara Leigh. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780787910365.

Learning Communities is a groundbreaking book that shows how learning communities (LCs) can be a flexible and effective approach to enhancing student learning, promoting curricular coherence, and revitalizing faculty. Written by Barbara Leigh Smith, Jean MacGregor, Roberta S. Matthews, and Faith Gabelnick¾acclaimed national leaders in the learning communities movement¾this important book provides the historical, conceptual, and philosophical context for LCs and clearly demonstrates that they can be a key element in institutional transformation.