DEI Action Collab Learning Community Idea "More to Most"

How can postsecondary education leaders, specifically those at community colleges working in the area of developmental education, share and build on what they know to scale and sustain change that impacts student success?

ISKME's Action Collab session, part of the CompletionMatters.org project, took place at the Development Education Initiative (DEI) Program Directors Summer Institute in Durham, NC in June 2011. Aimed at supporting innovation and collaboration, the Action Collab was a 3-hour design and prototyping challenge.

The Design Challenge: How might we build a learning community to capture and share knowledge that fosters our innovation?

Sandy Robinson, VP, Academic Affairs, Cuyahoga Community College, OH, explains "More to Most", a collaboratively constructed prototype to design a sustainable learning community. The community is organized around topics related to dev ed. With students as the base, the community would be open to all at the college level, including DEI, Achieving the Dream (ATD) colleges, four-year institutions, as well as the high schools, with a key focus around curricular alignment with K-12 and higher ed. Topics would emerge and change as the field changes, and new practices and other takeaways would be shared and draw in diverse participants over time.

The meeting of teams from the 15 participating DEI community colleges and their partners was organized by intermediary, MDC, as part of a three-year project supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

For more about the college completion community and agenda, visit www.CompletionMatters.org.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• collaboration
• developmental education
• postsecondary success
• community college
• alignment
• learning communities
• student
• peer learning students