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A learning community is a cross-disciplinary group of 6-12 members who engage in an active, collaborative, term-long program structured to provide learning opportunities, community building, and reflection. 

Each learning community focuses on a question, set of problems, or area of interest. Members deepen their knowledge in the chosen area by interacting on an ongoing basis through a series of seminars. Seminars take place on a bi-weekly basis, and may include reading relevant literature, discussing case studies or personal experiences, developing resources or other scholarship, attending events or conferences, and social gatherings. 

Improving Classrooms
The physical environment, including the classrooms where we teach, have an impact on the type and quality of teaching and learning that happen there. Ideally, the classrooms we're assigned match well with our goals, but due to time and space constraints, this isn't often the case. While classroom renovations and redesigns are underway at Dartmouth, the trajectory is long, and the majority of classrooms remain suboptimal. How can we make the most of the spaces and systems we have in the meantime? How might articulating a common lexicon of teaching practices improve the classroom request process? How can we hack our learning spaces to maximize their potential? In this learning community, we'll tackle these questions and more as we continue to develop the Dartmouth Design Principles for Learning Spaces framework.

This community meets: January 28, February 11, February 25, March 10

Applications are now clsoed for Winter 2020. Stay tuned for Spring 2020 Learning Communities and contact dcal@dartmouth.edu with any questions.