2. Innovation in Learning
A Learning College for the 21st Century is designed to
help students make passionate connections to
learning.
It places learning first and provides educational
experiences for learners anyway, anyplace, anytime.
Given their mission, it is not surprising to find
community colleges at the vanguard to exploring
new approaches to learning.
3. Learning-Centered Behaviors of
Leaders, Faculty, and Staff
How might each group contribute to the mission
of a learning-centered college?
4. Behaviors of
Learning-Centered Leadership
• They make the school vision central to their own daily
work. They demonstrate through their actions the
organization’s commitment to the values and beliefs at
the heart of the mission as well as to the specific
activities needed to reach goals.
• They articulate the vision through personal modeling
and by communicating with others in and around the
organization.
From Learning-Centered Leadership
http://www.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/Documents/pdf/LSI/VALED_Conceptual.pdf
5. Behaviors of
Learning-Centered Faculty
Learning-centered faculty participate in the
creation of a school vision that
• reflects high and appropriate standards of
learning
• a belief in the educability of all students
• high levels of personal and organizational
performance.
6. Basic Behaviors of
Learning-Centered Faculty
Some basic examples of learning-centered, high
performance behaviors might include:
– Well-planned lessons that follow agreed-upon
curriculum.
– Instruction that meets full contact load hours.
– Focus on learning outcomes, rather than what is
taught.
– Active Learning Instructional Techniques.
7. Examples of Active Learning
• Role play, scenarios or similar instructional approaches
• Experiential learning activities or exercises (note: students
don’t necessarily learn from experience, they learn from
reflecting on experiences in an educational setting)
• Paired or small group work
• Problem solving exercises
• Blended learning using appropriate technological resources to
support learning
• Case study exercises
• Problem-based learning exercises
8. Learning-Centered Staff Behaviors
1. Places learning first and provides educational
experiences for learners anyway, anyplace,
anytime. (O'Banion).
2. Educational experiences are designed for the
convenience of learners rather than for the
convenience of institutions and their staffs.
3. Efficient, well-planned services that provide
learners quickly with what they need in order to
return their focus to learning.
9. Faculty Orientation
August 11, 2010
The question was (paraphrased), “What can faculty do to support the move to a
learning-centered college, and what can MCC do to support the faculty in moving
towards a learning-centered college?”
• Motivation
• Sharing info-collaborate
• Sharing between faculty
• Student as instructor (to other students)
• Peer tutoring/editing
• Real world activities
• Take projects into the community
• Student unions/socializing
• Technology up to date for the instructor
• Set clear goals/expectations
• utilize principles of brain-based learning
• advertising inside/outside
10. So what is our vision?
As an institution, we have committed to
learning-centered principles.
11. Learning-Centered BHC
• How do we (staff & faculty) make this vision
our own?
• What behaviors do we (staff & faculty) want to
encourage and develop?
• What will a learning-centered college look like
on our campus?
