Obanion New Arch Learn College Notes 2 April 09

O'Banion, Terry. Creating a New Architecture for the Learning College Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 31: 713-724, 2007 Routledge Overall, lots of questions and philosophy; not much that I find very useful at the moment good stuff on history of education, but I can pull that from other sources that they list a critique of numerous community college issues with some historical perspective/ context provided 715 schools designed to work around agricultural economy: summer off, seasons in the year in 1920-30s, changed to meet the industrial economy classes of specific length meet specific goals 717-18 teaching load as link to history of industrial economy not centered on teaaching/improving learning but centered on efficiency “We begin by defining resources not on the basis of a formula that assumes fulltime faculty load equals learning produced in students.” The current mode makes that assumption—an important point 722 “Herding groups of students through one-hour sessions five days a week in high schools and three days a week in cllege flies in the face of everything known about what works to improve and expand learning. No one believes that 30 different students arrive at the appointed hour ready to learn in the same way, on the same schedule, all in rhythm with each other and the teacher.” no real solution offered