New Collaborative Learning Labs let you continue the conversation and learn more

Rutgers University’s Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program is offering a new type of webinar that allows to keep learning by giving you six weeks to continue online conversations with your classmates.

Learning Labs are 60- to 90-minute live webinars covering a wide variety of topics, including community development, economic development, planning law, professional practice, sustainability and urban design.  The new format, called Collaborative Learning Labs (COLAB), is a series of Learning Labs connected by an online community space.  The space is open only to COLAB participants.  You can continue the conversation through discussion forums, share and download documents, or find other resources.

Although each COLAB course includes four to five webinars, you can sign up for one or all webinars and get access to the community space. 

The first COLAB course is Urban Design for Community Development.  This five-part series, running from April 14 to May 26, 2010, explores such issues as:

*The connection between urban design and community development,

* How to “read” a community through its urban design, and 
*Visualization techniques for community development
Five Learning Labs will take place in April and May.  The community space will be open from April 14 to May 31.  Each Learning Lab in a COLAB course is $35.  There is no extra charge to participate in the community space.

The instructor is Juan Ayala, an urban designer and community development planner with 15 years of experience around the United States.

Learn more about the Urban Design for Community Development series.
Learn more about the Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program
The Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program is produced by the Professional Development Institute of Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.