How do you create a community of learners?

Rebecca Laroche, Chair/Associate Professor, English Department

I had 1-2 students per week read a scholarly essay on the play we were discussing in Renaissance Drama and write a 1-2 page summary of the article. They were to submit it before 5 o'clock the evening before class, and the other students in the class were to get online sometime that night or the following morning and read the summaries. This allowed for one student to come into the classroom having established a certain kind of expertise and for all to be able to refer to these articles as shared material.