Learning Communities

Thinking about collaborative learning in higher education. Insights from building, maintaining, and managing an honors learning community at Daytona State College.

Dr Harold "Trey" Orndorff in Learning Communities

Mar 24, 2016

Assigning Video Games as a Text

I have already discussed elsewhere why classrooms can only thrive when we move beyond the bring your own device (BYOD) model). In short, professors can only be forward thinking when every student has the same toolset. The next obvious question is: what kind of assignment…

Dr Harold "Trey" Orndorff in Learning Communities

Mar 11, 2016

Devices in the Classroom: Lessons from A Learning Community’s iPad Pilot Project

There is a pretty good probability you are reading this on your phone. No? Then my next best guess is a tablet. The computer revolution of the past thirty years has made possible high speed…

Dr Harold "Trey" Orndorff in Learning Communities

Feb 9, 2016

Welcome to QUANTA

Welcome to QUANTA! What is this weird acronym? QUANTA is Daytona State College’s branded learning community. It is also going to be the focus of my writing for the next two years. This two year program is designed to prepare students for higher level academic work and culminates with students…

Dr Harold "Trey" Orndorff in Learning Communities

Feb 22, 2016

Too Many Screens? Try Collaborative Note-taking.

There are two major problems that face the modern professor. The first is students are underprepared for note-taking or who, worse still, have no conception of it. The second is students distracted by multiple screens. Finding a way to break…

Dr Harold "Trey" Orndorff in Learning Communities

Mar 2, 2016

Decentralized Classrooms: How Spontaneous Order Can Help you Teach

In economic and evolutionary theory there is a concept generally known as spontaneous order. In very rough terms spontaneous order means that natural processes can and will give rise to complex systems. Specifically…

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