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Communities
are immediate (students, teachers and parents), local (businesses, local
government and non-government organisations and agencies), and broad (state
and federal governments, industry, employers, unions).
Another type of community, the learning community, is increasingly being recognised as an effective and innovative approach to learning for students in all settings. Learning communities can be geographic, electronic (virtual), discipline-based, or sharing any number of other common attributes. Learning communities foster openness, dialogue, inquiry, risk-taking and trust, for both students and educators.
The advent of the knowledge/information society and the increasing social and economic complexity that it brings has highlighted the interdependence of groups and individuals within communities. This is especially so for education and training providers as they relate with organisations, agencies, networks and groupings of all kinds across the community. Engagement with 'community' has become a crucially important component of learning in any setting.
