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Supporting a Learning Community
From our earliest moments in life, we learn how to act in the world from interacting with other people. While it can be tempting to focus on available anytime resources to support learning, people report that their most impactful and significant learning comes from exchanges with other people—by watching, conversing, and collaborating with others.
When designing a learning environment, it’s important to ask: How can I connect learners to one another? Who are the more advanced practitioners that learners can emulate or learn from? How can we promote interaction for learning purposes?
Research shows that there is a wide range of interpersonal activities that result in learning and performance outcomes (for a review, ...
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