“Good Practices of Living-learning Programmes”: Perspectives From An Asian Location

Abstract

In her paper in the May 2016 issue of the Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (AJSoTL), Inkelas (2016) gives a concise yet comprehensive overview of the revived living-learning programmes (LLP) in North America. The paper highlights the motivation for the revival of the LLPs, principles undergirding the LLPs, variations of the LLP model and their respective characteristics as well as drawing from empirical evidence in sharing the extent of the effectiveness of the LLPs in colleges in North America. This paper aims to critically reflect on three key aspects discussed by Inkelas (2016), namely motivation, intended learning outcomes and evaluation of the effectiveness of LLPs, and relate them to the Singapore higher education context. (Abstract taken from Introduction)