This week’s Teaching & Learning Collaborative tip is an article by Jeffrey White, international languages and cultures, who serves as administrator of the Shepard Academic Resource Center’s Learning Commons. His article, “The Excitement of Academic Learning,” details how last year a total of 1,180 UP students worked together with peer assistants in the Learning Commons to support and improve their learning for a total of nearly 4,600 visits. “Wouldn’t it be great if even more students came early and often to the Learning Commons to support their thinking, learning, and the application of new concepts in the classes we teach?” he asks. “Imagine students engaging even more in our classes with more authentic questions, presenting course material with greater depth, and more actively working together in groups on projects after visiting one or more of the following programs in the Learning Commons in Buckley Center 163.” You can see the article in it entirety at this link.