Welcome to the world of learning communities, co-funded by the Europoean Union as a Erasmus+-project đź‘‹

This wiki is a part of the Erasmus+-backed project “A golden standard for learning communities” and co-created by Pålogga, Freeed, and Tools for Pedagogy. In Q1 2022, we will invite all teachers to a learning community dedicated this topic.

The wiki is an introduction to the main phases of learning community management and its challenges. It’s built as a straight-to-the-point wiki you can read from A to Z or lookup certain topics as you like. On purpose, the information is short. Less is more.

Please remember, there are no right or wrong answers in this topic. It's up to each learning community manager to understand the community culture and try moving it in a positive direction. Still, there are a few best practices you should be aware of. We call that the gold standard.

Please note, there is no way we can guarantee anything will work. But we can give you a head start, share our key learnings, and work with you to reach our shared goal.

The four phases in a learning community

The four phases in a learning community

Planning

Understand your role

Clarify teacher involvement

Prepare the community

Onboarding

Make everyone feel welcome

Find the first followers

Help forming study groups

Habit creation

Make sure everything is responded to

Motivate students to ask in communities, not direct messages

Share summaries

Manage

Send status reports to stake holders