Deeper Learning Needs Community
Heather Elmatti |
TEDxEustis
• January 2018
In this talk recorded at TEDxEustis in January 2018, Professor Heather Elmatti discusses the role of "community" in education and the impact that creating this sense of community in a group of learners can deepen their education experience.
Heather has worked over 20 years in the area of experiential education. She completed her BA at Spring Arbor University in Communications and International Studies and has MTh from the University of Edinburgh in the Theology and Ethics of Communications. She has a varied background as an outdoor educator in Michigan and Scotland, a freelance journalist in Washington, DC, and working with college students in New Zealand, Fiji, and now Florida. Currently she is an Assistant Professor in the Communications Department at Lake-Sumter State College.