scholarly journals "Our Doors is Always Open": Aligning Literacy Learning Practices in Writing Programs and Residential Learning Communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Julia Voss
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Writing Programs ◽  
Residential Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Practices

scholarly journals Effects of Residential Learning Communities on Drinking Trajectories During the First Two Years of College

2009 ◽  
pp. 86-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A Cranford ◽  
Sean Esteban McCabe ◽  
Carol J Boyd ◽  
James E Lange ◽  
Mark B Reed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Residential Learning Communities

scholarly journals Social Media for Informal Learning: a Case of #Twitterstorians

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya Kumar ◽  
Anatoliy Gruzd
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Information Share ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Online Environments ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Open, online environments like social media are now a mainstay of life-long informal learning. Social media like Twitter help people gather information, share resources, and discuss with other participant-learners with similar interests. This paper seeks to test and validate the ‘learning in the wild’ coding schema in the context of discussions on Twitter, an approach first developed for studying learning communities on Reddit. The schema considers how participant-learners are leveraging social media to facilitate self-directed informal learning practices, exploratory dialogue, and communicative exchanges. We apply the coding schema on a sample of tweets (n=594) from the History Twittersphere community (#Twitterstorians) to provide a more nuanced understanding of the different kinds of discursive practices, resource exchanges, and ideas being shared and communicated outside traditional classroom settings.

scholarly journals Keaksaraan Fungsional Berbasis Wirausaha Produktif Untuk Kemandirian Masyarakat

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Rudi Amir
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Literacy Programs ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Functional Literacy ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Positive Results

This study uses a qualitative approach, with this type of research is a case study research by collecting data that is qualitative. This study aims to determine: 1) How big the contribution of functional literacy programs based on productive entrepreneurs in improving community independence in Je'netallasa Village Pallangga District Gowa Regency; The subjects of the study were the citizens of functional literacy learning based on productive entrepreneurs in Jenetallasa Village, Pallangga District, gowa district, as many as 5 people. The results showed that: 1) Learning functional literacy in Je'netallasa Village Pallangga District Gowa District gave positive results to the community. The perceived result is that mothers who previously could not read and write can now be said to be free from illiteracy problems, they began to have calistung ability as an effort to eradicate illiteracy society; 2) The functional literacy capabilities and productive entrepreneurial skills of the respondents, in the form of knowledge about reading, writing and numeracy (calistung). While in the form of skills, obtained through learning practices, among others: making bosara from plastic drink glass and syrup made from cucumber suri. 3) Factors that play a role in supporting respondents in managing their. business in the field of sewing are: capital knowledge and skills, motivation for independence, adequate literacy, age conditions. Some things inhibiting the respondents in managing business in the field of sewing business, among others: lack of capital, marketing efforts are still lacking

Residential Learning Communities Positively Affect College Binge Drinking

NASPA Journal ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron M. Brower ◽  
Chris M. Golde ◽  
Caitilyn Allen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Residential Learning Communities ◽  
Academic Problems ◽  
Residential Learning Community ◽  
Comparison Groups ◽  
Drinking Behaviors ◽  
Matched Comparison

Recent surveys demonstrate that college students "binge drink" or engage in high-risk episodic drinking at high rates across the country. This drinking pattern has been associated with most of the serious health, legal, and academic problems faced by students and colleges. This study explored how living in a residential learning community affects drinking behaviors. Students living in three different residential learning communities at a large, midwestern public university were found to binge drink at significantly lower rates than did matched comparison groups who lived in another university residence hall. Further, learning community residents also suffered fewer problems arising from either their own drinking or that of others. We interpret these results as suggesting that new social norms—peer expectations about acceptable behavior— are created within the learning communities that positively affect binge drinking and its associated problems. These preliminary findings are promising indicators that student housing deliberately structured to promote community and academic involvement can reduce problem drinking behaviors, even when no explicit alcohol programming is involved.

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