Useful Links and Other Resources

OLN Learning Communities Initiative Wiki: contains information in a wiki format about cultivating learning communities

E-Learning Athenaeum: a statewide repository of e-learning resources; many created by learning communities

Community Walk: a graphical mapping of OLN funded learning communities across the state with community interests and other information. Click for 2006 PLCs and for 2007 PLCs

Portrait of Practice Form: This form must be completed by each grant funded professional learning community.

The Ohio Learning Network: information about the learning communities initiative, distance learning, teaching and learning with technoloogy, and many other resources.

Miami University Learning Community Website: information about developing faculty and professional learning communities, facilitating communities, establishing learning communities on your campus, past practices that have yielded excellent results, and much more.

Miami University Bibliography of Learning Community Resources: a listing of many current books related to learning communities and their benefits in enhancing student learning.

OLN Learning Communities Initiative: information about Ohio Learning Network's learning community programs. Includes discussions of previous learning community outcomes from around the state.

Technopoli: an online calendar to help educators easily and quickly find seminars, workshops, conferences, and training about integrating learning technologies into teaching and learning.

Ohio Learns: Ohio's catalog of distance learning courses and degrees.

OLN Teaching and Learning Resource Page: listing of various teaching and learning initiatives accessible through the Ohio Learning Network including the Learning Communities Initiative.

Ohio Teaching and Learning Centers: links to the websites of several teaching and learning centers across the state.

Implementing the Seven Principles: an article on using the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, especially related to the use of technology.

Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: discussion of effective methods increasing student learning.

Dee Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning: discussion of course design, teaching techniques, and other methods of improving learning.

OLN Regional Centers

Northwest Regional Center at Bowling Green State University

            Bonnie Fink, Coordinator                    bfink@bgsu.edu

Northeast Regional Center at Kent State University

            Jeffrey Pellegrino, Co-Coordinator       jpelleg1@kent.edu       

            Mary Tipton, Co-Coordinator             mtipton@kent.edu

Southeast Regional Center at Shawnee State University

            Barbara Kunkle, Co-Coordinator         bkunkle@shawnee.edu

            Eugene Burns, Co-Coordinator           eburns@shawnee.edu

Southwest Regional Center at Miami University

            Milt Cox, Coordinator                    coxm@muohio.edu

Central Regional Center at The Ohio State University

            Tsui Cheah, Coordinator              cheah.5@osu.edu

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