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Jerry Moskus April 1999
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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?Or wilt thou go and ask the Mole? --William Blake, "Thel's Motto"With its slow information flow, hierarchical structure, and top-down decision-making, the bureaucratic model of organization is part of what Terry O'Banion calls the "old architecture" of education. Today's fast-paced world demands agile, responsive "learning colleges" with redesigned decision-making processes.
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Terry O'Banion March 1999
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As the Learning Revolution spreads rapidly throughout education, a new language on learning is beginning to appear. Every new book, conference program, and Web site is peppered with learning terms: learning college, learning communities, learning organizations, learning outcomes, brain-compatible learning, surface learning, deep learning, and learning facilitators.
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Gerardo E. de los Santos, Deborah J. Cruise January 1999
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We are in the midst of a Learning Revolution, challenged to reevaluate the way we historically have approached teaching and learning in higher education.
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John Quinley, Melissa Quinley November 1998
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Community college educators traditionally focus on the position of their institutions in the educational pipeline--generally conceiving of themselves as the link between high school and four-year institutions or the workplace. For students who prematurely seep out of this pipeline, the community college has been described as a "second chance" institution, providing reentry options for students who stopped short of reaching a desired level of education or who failed in previous educational endeavors.
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Terry O'Banion, Mark D. Milliron September 1998
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A Learning Revolution is sweeping across the higher education landscape, and the League for Innovation is working to be on the vanguard of this movement. Placing learning first in every policy, program, and practice is the rallying cry, as institutions strive to remove the time-bound, place-bound, role-bound, and bureaucracy-bound models of education that shackle innovation and transformation. What this means in practical terms is that every action in a community college should be analyzed by asking the simple question: "Does this improve or expand student learning?"
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