Abstract:Penn State University's Learning Edge Academic Program (LEAP) has three main goals: to promote active collaborative learning on the part of students by enrolling them in two small, linked classes; to foster a better living/learning community for students entering the new environment of a large university; and to provide students with the practical skills and familiarity with the available resources necessary to succeed in that community. Specific goals that are linked to these objectives seek to enable student… Show more
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