Our new Canvas PDP site offers all sorts of wonderful opportunities for exploration, especially via our Project Joy link which highlights faculty led teaching and learning related initiatives at MiraCosta.

Today, I would like to focus on our Integrative Learning page, which pulls together resources gathered by faculty working in our learning communities and health start programs, all of which focus “fostering students’ abilities to integrate learning—across courses, over time, and between campus and community life” (“A Statement on Integrative Learning”).

Several of the PDF files provided on our page explore the relationship between specific teaching strategies and integrative learning as well as ideas about the larger implications of integrative learning for campus wide curriculum.

One of the particular cool benefits of doing this kind of exploration is canvas is that discussion opportunities are integrated directly onto pages offering information and resources. So it is that on our Integrative Learning page you will not only find useful handouts, readings, and links, but you are also invited to share a thought or question in the discussion below the information links. In this case, Teresa Guinon is subscribed to our Integrative Learning page and will respond to any and all who wish to share thoughts, questions, ideas, etc.

If you find this material intriguing, MiraCosta is hosting a Learning Communities conference on Friday October 20th. Here is a flyer about the conference and here is a registration form​ (due by October 13).