Abstract:In recent years, learning community has become a hot spot in educational research. Learning community is a group of people who share common values and beliefs, and these members are actively engaged in learning together. Learning community has become a main model and means of cooperative learning and interdisciplinary research in higher education. 

In order to have an overview of how students learn autonomously within a learning community, I write this thesis. The thesis discusses about autonomous learning in learning community on the basis of constructivism. The emphasize lies in the autonomous learning methods, process and strategies in a learning community including every detailed aspects from creating a learning community, making a study plan, understanding learning process to monitoring and evaluating. 

Learning community is an integrated system and effective way to raise learners’ interest, improve learners’ self-learning capacity. It has a positive impact on building learning society.

Keywords:  learning community  autonomous learning  learning process  learning strategy

Contents

Abstract

摘要

Chapter One Introduction-1

Chapter Two Literature Review-2

2.1 Learning community-2

2.1.1 The Definition of Learning Community-2

2.1.2 Benefits of Learning Community-3

2.2 Autonomous Learning-3

2.2.1 Definition of Autonomous Learning-3

2.2.2 Importance of Autonomous Learning-4

Chapter Three Autonomous Learning Within Learning Community-5

3.1 Five Models of Learning Community-5

3.2 The Autonomous Learning Process Based on Learning Community-7

3.2.1 Setting Goals-7

3.2.2 Making a Study Plan-8

3.2.3 Interacting and Cooperating-8

3.2.4 Evaluating-9

3.3 The Autonomous Learning Strategy in Learning Community-10

3.3.1 Cognitive Strategy-10

3.3.2 Meta-cognitive Strategies-11

Chapter Four Conclusion-12

References-13