[[alternative]]A Study of Community Organization Construction Learning Network--Examples of Wen-Shun Community University and the Association of Peitou Li Zen of Taipei City

[[abstract]]A Study of Community Organization Constructing Learning Network －－Examples of Wen-Shun Community University and the Association of Peitou Li Zen of Taipei City Wan-Jen Chang Abstract Because of facing the network globalization of information society, the impact of the times of knowledge-based economy and the changes of learning style and working style, life-long learning become the basis of adapting the changing society and innovative developments. The construction of society learning network can become the sill of “ Thinking Globalization and Acting localization ”. The construction of society network needs to combine the power of the organization through cooperation learning. The major purpose of this research is to explore the related ideas, frames and strategies of society learning network, the development experience of constructing learning network in the foreign and the related factors of organizing and constructing the learning network, and include a suitable frame, developing strategies and experience of constructing community learning network. The frame, strategy and other factors of Wen-Shun Community University and the association of Peitou Li Zen of Taipei city, are analyzed and compared by the case study method. The advantages and strategies of these two community organizations in constructing learning network are listed. The conclusion and suggestions are described in the following. The conclusion of this research is as follows: 1. The organization of the community needs be converted to a learning organization, and carry on the construction of community learning network with the mode of a “ learning－working ” network. 2. The frame of the learning network includes “ Learning Resource Network “, “ Digital Learning Network “ and “ Learning Resource Center “ and the development structure includes “establishing partnership’s organization “, “ promoting the participation of community residents “, “evaluating performance “and other related strategy of the development strategies. 3. Both cases in the community learning network lack a regular or irregular learning program in organization learning; it is difficult to integrate learning resources and the residents participate the learning program not enough eager in pushing the community learning; The resources of the fund and volunteers are not enough to push the community resources network. 4. Both cases in the community learning network only have “Learning Resource Network “ but lack “ Digital Learning Network “ and “ Learning Resource Center “; in the development frame, the developing strategy of “ establishing partnership’s organization “ is good in both cases. However, the strategy of “ promoting the participation of all community residents “ is weak and “ evaluating performance “ is not performed completely. By the conclusions of this study, the following suggestions are proposed: 1. The administrator of the community organization must guide and plan the operations of the "working-learning" network to promote and convert the organization into operations of the learning organization. Also, the organization can unite learning organization and higher education to provide learning programs for community members learning with regular and irregular learning opportunity. 2. The community organization must investigate and analyze the learner requirement, which base on the characteristics of the community population and the ethnicity. The learning activities will be designed by the requirements. The professional, who are familiar with adult learning equipment, should assist the works of the learning guidance and consultation. These professional need to guide and to track the learner and the leave off man. Also the guidance and tracking data must be collected. By these data, the local culture problem of the adult learning will be researched and reported and understanding the adult learning problem, can be used to improve the participation and learning of the community residents. Thus, the dream of the lifetime learning will be come true. 3. The community organization must collect and ask the professionals, who are lived in the community, to play a part in the learning activity. These professional men can be divided into many groups by their special skill and interest. Also, the community organization must integrate the higher education resources to train the community professional men to be the volunteers and to operate the activity of the community learning. 4. The "planning committee," "guiding committee," "action committee," must be organized from the local to the center government to promote and construct the construct the network of the community learning. 5. The government must integrate the resources of the community school, the enterprise of the industry and business, the enterprise of the information and the digital network. These resources can be used to construct the infrastructure of the software and hardware in the community digital learning network. 6. The organization frame, decision, power structure and the mechanism of the resource allotment of the "community learning resource center" must be co-planning by the public and private organizations in the community. 7. The government must cooperate with community organization to raise funds for the learning activity. 8. To construct the community learning network, community organization should encourage diversity plan, adopt variety strategies and innovative development to conform the requirement of different styles, benefits and cultures of the community organization. That is, community organization should combine the power from the public and private departments to construct the community learning network with "international thinking and native action."