Learning community

Changing participation through formation of student learning communities

Differences in learning gains between interactive engagement and lecture instructional practices have been well documented and yet the ways in which students participate in each of these learning environments are not clearly established. We use …

Investigating Student Communities with Network Analysis of Interactions in a Physics Learning Center

We describe our initial efforts at implementing social network analysis to visualize and quantify student interactions in Florida International University's Physics Learning Center. Developing a sense of community among students is one of the three …