LSCHE as a source of relevant information for the following:

• Newly appointed learning skills specialists and learning support center administrators
• Experienced learning support center personnel and administrators
• Newly appointed directors of learning support center programs and services like Tutoring, Supplemental Instruction, Writing Centers, Math Centers, Conversation Labs for International Students, Senior administrators who have oversight of learning support centers
• Graduate students who are looking for research material on learning assistance and learning support centers
• Faculty and administrators who want to know about and understand not only how campus learning centers can assist them in helping students with learning and study strategies but also how they can use LSCHE material to partner with their campus learning center staff to integrate learning and study strategies in their courses and programs.   

Getting Acquainted with LSCHE

• As you view the home page, note the menu of its contents on the left side of the web page.
  Read the welcome to overview the web site. Note especially the quotation from Rick Thoman about knowledge sharing
• Each time that you access LSCHE, look at the “What’s New” section for information about your colleagues, upcoming conferences and institutes, any additions to LSCHE content, recent publications by your colleagues in learning assistance, and new developments in technology relevant to learning assistance and learning support centers.
• The section, “About Learning Support Centers,” is a primer on definitions, names of centers, a collection of more than 400 links to learning support center web sites in the USA, Canada, and Australia, a chronology relevant to learning assistance events, center mission statements, center floor plans, and a list of references to surveys of learning assistance and learning support centers.
• The calendar lists conferences and institutes with dates, locations, and sponsors
• The section, “Resources,” must be reviewed to note the depth and volume of its contents. If this your first time in LSCHE, choose each of the resources and overview its contents
• The next section, :Winter Institute,” describes an annual training event for learning support center administrators and staff. Especially noteworthy is the section on the Winter Institute philosophy, and its long history dating back to the first institute in 1977 developed by Dr. Martha Maxwell at UC Berkeley.
• The “nearby history” of LSCHE will give you some notion of its origin and development by two learning assistance professionals who wanted to share with their colleagues useful information related to learning assistance and learning support centers.
• The final item on the menu is a Search Box to expedite your use of LSCHE when you want to know if a learning assistance related item is in the LSCHE database.

Typical uses of LSCHE

• You are looking for some names of learning support centers that you might consider for your center.You can review over 125 names that you may adopt or adapt
• You need some definitions of key academic support terms for a presentation or a paper
• You want to compare your learning center web site with other center web sites
• You know that you have a great web site and would like to have it nationally recognized as such
• You don't really know much about the history of learning support centers and would like to view a chronology that lists major people, events, publications, and research
• Your VP supervisor would like your center to be a model center and you research LSCHE for characteristics of model centers
• You have been told that you need to have a mission statement for your center and you would like to view what others have written as their mission statements
• You have funds to send your staff to professional conferences and you would like to see a calendar of upcoming conferences and information
• You have heard about an annual training Institute for learning assistance and support center professionals and want information on it.
• You want to find the web site for related professional associations
• You want to develop or increase your management capability
• You want to find material to send to senior institutional administrators (Vice-presidents, President, Board of Regents or Trustees) that shows the importance of your learning support center’s programs and services in retention and student academic satisfaction and success.
• You find material that you think would be a useful addition to LSCHE and suggest it be added
• You find a broken link in LSCHE and email either the webmaster or the content editor so that it can be fixed
  
  [ If you think that additions or deletions to LSCHE need to be implemented, email flchris@cox ]

  
  

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