{"id":10774,"date":"2016-03-07T17:06:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=10774"},"modified":"2016-03-07T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:06:25","slug":"learning-circles-toolkit-online-learning-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/learning-circles-toolkit-online-learning-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Circles Toolkit: Online Learning, Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From software tools to facilitation guides, these toolkits have everything a librarian needs to run their own Learning Circle, a lightly facilitated study group for learners who want to take online courses with their peers in a community space. This resource is brought to you by Peer to Peer University (P2PU), an <em>Educator Innovator<\/em> partner, and leverages the <a href=\"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/why-connected-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connected Learning principles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #acacac; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;\">&#8220;These Learning Circles were designed to rise to the challenges of online education: low retention in online courses, limited access for disadvantaged populations, and the question of how public libraries can scale access to online learning content.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #acacac; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;\">Working with facilitators, librarians, and course participants, P2PU has developed a Learning Circles toolkit, complete with software tools, facilitation guides, a list of curated courses, and marketing templates that make it easy for librarians to organize Learning Circles at their branch with little additional help needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>By Rebecca Kahn<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interested in finding out more? <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/info.p2pu.org\/2016\/02\/12\/learning-circle-toolkit-everything-you-need-to-run-a-circle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article<\/a> at Peer to Peer University.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From software tools to facilitation guides, these toolkits have everything a librarian needs to run their own Learning Circle, a lightly facilitated study group for learners who want to take online courses with their peers in a community space. This resource is brought to you by Peer to Peer University (P2PU), an <em>Educator Innovator<\/em> partner, and leverages the Connected Learning principles.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":10780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[78,675,673,526,139,674],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10784,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions\/10784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}