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Learning Commons - Dale MabryLearning commons design, with centralized student resources, contributes to student success through obvious expediency and can also contribute to the sense of community proven essential to student success, an academic community often difficult for community colleges to sustain. In Fall 2008, the writing and tutoring centers, with a ten-year record of successful one-on-one academic assistance rated in the top five College services, joined under one coordinator and relocated to the library building to enhance individual guidance with ready access to library resources, computer labs, group and quiet study space. The efficient, collaborative consolidation also affords motivating, supportive, comfortable workspace. The Learning Commons logged 23,101 visits the first semester; the library building gate count increased 26% . Beyond numbers and countless positive anecdotes, research on usage and outcomes is now systematically gathered and compiled to permit replication on all campuses.Read more... |
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