Everyone,

I want to encourage you to complete the Learning College assessment that is being made available to you.

As you know, one of our institutional goals is to determine the applicability of the Learning College concept as a guiding principle for Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. Under the leadership of Sheila Miracle, committee chair, we have taken several steps down that road, and, while all signs are promising, your completing this assessment will give us a good idea of where we are in the Learning College process and where we will need to go.

This assessment will be on the web for sometime, and we will be asking all of our employees and students to complete it.

Thanks so much, and thanks to Gary Gibson, for his work in making this assessment available for us.

Bruce

Criteria For A Learning College

These criteria can serve as a comprehensive and practical framework for assessing a college on its progress toward becoming a learning college and identifying where to focus its efferts for improvement. A number of these criteria have been implemented in some colleges on an individual or departmental basis. Aggregating them in this format stresses the importance of change that is institution-wide and thus tryly characterizes a learning college.

Criteria 1

The Learning Process
This section focuses on the learning college's main aim of putting learning first in everything that it does. How does the college support the learning process in the nature of the activities in which learners engage and how does it deliver learning content? Begin Criteria #1 Evaluation

Criteria 2

Learning Content

Is the content or the subject matter of learning options appropriately planned, organized and designed with a learning-centered approach? Is there cross-disciplinary integration? Begin Criteria #2 Evaluation

Criteria 3

Learning Facilitators

Is the content or the subject matter of learning options appropriately planned, organized and designed with a learning-centered approach? Is there cross-disciplinary integration? Begin Criteria #3 Evaluation

Criteria 4

Learning Specialists

Is the content or the subject matter of learning options appropriately planned, organized and designed with a learning-centered approach? Is there cross-disciplinary integration? Begin Criteria #4 Evaluation

Criteria 5

Learning Outcomes

This section focuses on the learning college's main aim of putting learning first in everything that it does. How does the college support the learning process in the nature of the activities in which learners engage and how does it deliver learning content? Begin Criteria #5 Evaluation

Criteria 6

Learners
Is the content or the subject matter of learning options appropriately planned, organized and designed with a learning-centered approach? Is there cross-disciplinary integration? Begin Criteria #6 Evaluation

Criteria 7

Organization -- Learner Services

This section focuses on the learning college's main aim of putting learning first in everything that it does. How does the college support the learning process in the nature of the activities in which learners engage and how does it deliver learning content? Begin Criteria #7 Evaluation

Criteria 7a

Organization -- Systems and Procedures

This section focuses on the learning college's main aim of putting learning first in everything that it does. How does the college support the learning process in the nature of the activities in which learners engage and how does it deliver learning content? Begin Criteria #7a Evaluation

Criteria 7b

Organization -- Structures

This section focuses on the learning college's main aim of putting learning first in everything that it does. How does the college support the learning process in the nature of the activities in which learners engage and how does it deliver learning content? Begin Criteria #7b Evaluation

Criteria 8

Leadership
This section focuses on the learning college's main aim of putting learning first in everything that it does. How does the college support the learning process in the nature of the activities in which learners engage and how does it deliver learning content? Begin Criteria #8 Evaluation

Criteria 9

College Culture

Is the content or the subject matter of learning options appropriately planned, organized and designed with a learning-centered approach? Is there cross-disciplinary integration? Begin Criteria #9 Evaluation