California Learning Community Consortium
  "Effective Learning Communities have a number of distinctive features:
     They are usually smaller than most other units on campus.
     They have a sense of purpose.
     They help overcome the isolation of faculty members from one another and from their students.
     They encourage faculty members to relate to one another both as specialists and as educators....
     They encourage continuity and integration in the curriculum.
     They help build a sense of group identity, cohesion, and "specialness." "
            Source: Involvement in Learning, 1984.

Maricopa Community College:  Integrated Learning Communities
"Integrated Learning Communities... are intentional curriculum restructuring efforts that thematically link or cluster during a given term and enroll a cohort of students. Learning Communities aim to provide students with greater curricular coherence, and to provide both students and faculty an opportunity for increased intellectual interaction and shared inquiry."
    -- Washington Center News, Spring 1995

The Maryland Electronic Learning Community
"MELC was designed to investigate how an electronic learning community could be created
around the development and use of a multimedia digital library for teacher generated
lesson plans and activities."

Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne, Australia:  Reflections of a Learning Community:
Views on the Introduction of Laptops
"The MLC curriculum is designed to use computer technology to enable girls to become more independent and interdependent in their learning. The College has adopted a constructionist approach in that students are encouraged to build and expand their learning from their information and experiences available to them."

University of Kansas:  Building a Premier Learning Community
"A premier learning community supports and inspires the intellectual and personal development of all members of the community (students, faculty, and staff)."

Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education:  Learning Communities Directory
  "Learning Communities Listed by Type:
      Coordinated Studies Programs
      Linked Courses
      Federated Learning Communities
      Course Clusters
      Freshman Interest Groups
      Other Learning Community Models"
 

The Campus as Learning Community: Seven Promising Shifts and Seven Powerful Levers
by Thomas A. Angelo
"In a learning community, faculty and students alike have both opportunity to learn from and help teach each other. Faculty become less transmitters of information and more designers of learning environments and experiences, expert guides, coaches, and practicing master learners."

Learning Communities atCerritos College:  Exploring and Understanding Diverse Perspectives
 by JoAnn Smartt-Gaither
"Faculty members are paired or grouped to bring a cross-discipline approach to instruction and learning.  What makes the Cerritos College model unique is that the design is not just focused on student academic impact via faculty-to-student interaction, but it creates a strong premise for student-to-student and faculty-to-faculty interactions."

Rowan College: Task Force on the Learning Community