However, opportunities exist for all community members to participate to whatever extent is possible, and students working in peripherality are context dependent. Learning Community Recipe Continued . . . Identified 4 conditions for understanding motivation in a learner. Keller s ARCS model incorporates key elements that exist in a learning community. Gaining attention from all employees will be easier to achieve by creating a community that will include participation from all in the workplace, instead of just select individuals.
Individual input is valued and share among all in the community.
The individual learner builds confidence as all in the community are supported and all contributions are valid and included. By participating in the shared knowledge and growth of the group the individual enjoys a certain amount of satisfaction at having made a meaningful contribution. These questions are driving research that is underway at the university where Driscoll teaches. In one course, for example, a collective course goal was emphasized within the context of the subject domain. Students worked in collaborative groups on problems that related to each other and contributed to the course goal.