Learning Connection

www.learnconnect.com Based out of Providence, RI, LEARNING CONNECTION offers classes and events throughout Southern New England.

LEARNING CONNECTION, Inc., originally the Providence Learning Connection, was started in July 1981, to provide an opportunity for people in the community to learn easily and inexpensively from others with skills and knowledge to share. An independent non-credit learning network, LEARNING CONNECTION gives adults an opportunity to meet new people and learn new skills. Recognized as one of the countr

05/19/2020

LC Still LIVES! Somewhere!! This is about half lol - the arms and legs were already packed in my car!

04/21/2019

When being a part of the Learning Connection... Did you know the founder? His name was Greg! He is the one that Made the Learning Connection Happen along with his greatest friends!

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06/02/2017

Setting up my new home office - you know I had to hang the famous Learning Connection Chair Portrait!

Always "Resting on Your Laurels"
❤️

08/06/2014

http://www.providencejournal.com/writers/bob-kerr/20140806-bob-kerr-the-social-side-of-learning-gets-bumped.ece

Bob Kerr: The social side of learning gets bumped Learning Connection has closed. The opportunity to learn ballroom dancing, woodworking, guitar, French, gourmet cooking, elusive social skills, meditation, canoeing, knitting, fly fishing and hundreds...

07/01/2014

Today - I closed the Learning Connection Office for the last time. Thank you all who made Learning Connection what it was! 1981-2014
xoxo
Roy T. Singleton, CPP
Operations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX4hX7h7TjU

Closing the LC Office I had to take my own walk through. I was sad, satisfied, proud, scared, overwhelmed, just so many emotions. I am very grateful and will never underestimate w...

06/25/2014

Pioneer Lifelong Learning Program Closes

The brochure cover shown is the last brochure of the Learning Connection.
The brochure cover shown is the last brochure of the Learning Connection.

The Learning Connection of Providence, Rhode Island, has closed after a storied 33 year history. A pioneering program in lifelong learning, the field adopted many of the Learning Connection’s innovations in brochures, course analysis, and software.

Among its contributions:
•Cutting the brochure production timeline
•Producing six brochures a year
•Tracking brochure distribution by carrier route rather than zip codes.

It also was the originator of the online registration and business system that became Lumens, now used by hundreds of lifelong learning programs.

During its four decades, the Learning Connection was the largest lifelong learning program in Rhode Island. It was founded by Greg Marsello, a co-founder of LERN. Other staff members included Kathy Brady, Brendan Marsello, and Roy Singleton.

The program produced 193 catalogs, had 1,500 teachers, offered 3,000 courses and served over 25,000 people.

The Learning Connection was also one of the last free universities in the nation. Free universities started in the 1960s. Their educational philosophy that “Anyone can teach, anyone can learn” was widely regarded by traditional institutions and media as educational heresy at the time. The philosophy and free university model then was adopted by every lifelong learning and continuing education program throughout North America, including your program.

The free university business model consisted of diverse subjects taught by people in the community and promoted with regular and colorful brochures. The word “free” meant free to learn and free to teach, not no-cost. It was Marsello’s second free university, having started The Clinton Free School while in college.