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Publication Date: 2010
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Teaching & Learning for International Students in a "Learning Community": Creating, Sharing and Building Knowledge
Kemp, Linzi
InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, v5 p63-74 2010
This article considers the culture of learning communities for effective teaching. A learning community is defined here as an environment where learners are brought together to share information, to learn from each other, and to create new knowledge. The individual student develops her/his own learning by building on learning from others. In a learning community approach to teaching, educators can ensure that students gain workplace skills such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving. In this case study, it is shown how an active learning community, introduced into a blended teaching environment (face-to-face and virtual), effectively supported international undergraduates in the building of knowledge and workplace skills.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Learning Activities, Discourse Communities, Foreign Students, Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Blended Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Business Administration Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Arab Emirates
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