Conference proceeding
Implementing a living-learning community in information technology
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on information technology education, pp 153-158
14 Oct 2014
Abstract
Living-learning communities (LLCs) have been used as a recruiting and retention tool by colleges and universities since the 1960s. Recently, they have seen resurgence in popularity. In 2010, Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn College) started developing academically themed residential learning communities and as part of that program, started a LLC for Information Technology in 2011. A fundamental part of these communities is a collection of common activities to engage students both academically and socially. This paper discusses some of the specific activities associated with the Information Technology Living-Learning Community (IT LLC) as well as the observed benefits to academic performance, student interaction and retention.
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Details
- Title
- Implementing a living-learning community in information technology
- Creators
- Sandra GorkaMatthew HelfJacob Miller
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on information technology education, pp 153-158
- Conference
- 15th Annual Conference on information technology education, 15th
- Series
- SIGITE '14
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Management
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84909992307
- Other Identifier
- 991019298718804721