Teaching and Learning Support Services
Learning College Initiative
This project is designed to provide opportunities fro inter-college collaboration to help KCTCS fulfill their commitment to a learning-centered organization.
Colleges initiating reform efforts to become more learning-centered will begin at various points. Regardless of the point of departure, it will be beneficial to have a framework to build upon. This frame of reference (the learning college) is a set of principles which serve as a catalyst for institutions to develop their own guidelines towards becoming more learning-centered.
The learning college is based upon six key principles:
- The learning college creates substantive change in individual learners.
- The learning college engages learners in the learning process as full
partners, assuming primary responsibility for their own choices.
- The learning college creates and offers as many options for learning
as possible.
- The learning college assists learners to form and participate in
collaborative learning activities.
- The learning college defines the roles of learning facilitators by the
needs of the learners.
- The learning college and its learning facilitators succeed only when
improved and expanded learning can be documented for its learners.
Purpose/Goal of the program:
- Cultivate an organizational culture where policies, programs, practices, and personnel support learning as the major priority.
- Create or expand (a) recruitment and hiring programs to ensure that new staff and faculty are learning centered and (b) professional development programs that prepare all staff and faculty to become more effective facilitators of learning.
- Utilize information technology primarily to improve and expand student learning.
- Agree on competencies for a core program of the college's choice, on strategies to improve learning outcomes, on assessment processes to measure the acquisition of the learning outcomes, and on means for documenting achievement of outcomes.
- Create or expand learning=centered programs and strategies to ensure the success of underprepared students.
When It's Held:
On-going commitment
Who Can/Should Apply/Participate:
All KCTCS faculty and staff
Participant Obligations:
Designated by college leadership team
Cost to Individual/Institution:
Partially funded by System grants
Additional Information:
The KCTCS Learning Organization Model is based on the League for Innovations Learning College project.
Whom to Contact:
College Leadership team
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