Results of Learning Communities
Universities are often drawn to learning communities because research has shown that they improve student retention rates. Emily Lardner and Gillies Malnarich of the Washington Center at The Evergreen State College note that a learning community can have a much greater impact on students:
The camaraderie of co-enrollment may help students stay in school longer, but learning communities can offer more: curricular coherence; integrative, high-quality learning; collaborative knowledge-construction; and skills and knowledge relevant to living in a complex, messy, diverse world.
Studies show that enrolment in a learning community has a powerful effect on student learning and achievement.
There are also criticism on learning in groups. According to Armstrong (2012), people put in groups lose their sense of individual responsibility. And typically the things learned through taking individual responsibility are the things remembered by adults.
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