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Let's ask around:
Community is a sense of *shared purpose and belonging*. Think about your local PTA, block party organization, church, book club or alumni association. Theres always a reason that youre there, and a sense that youre included.
Scholar and writer Clay Shirky, in describing [how the open source community Perl works](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs) described his litmus test:
![shirky community.png](/modules/community/_posts/shirky community.png)
It's also a sense of interconnectedness. Community designer Alex Hillman shows how important it is to design for deep, trusting interactions, because they create *value* for the participants:
![hillman community.png](/modules/community/_posts/hillman community.png)
We describe it as feelings + value: community is a sense of *shared purpose and belonging*.
![P2PU community.png](/modules/community/_posts/P2PU community.png)
Think about your local PTA, block party organization, church, book club or alumni association. Theres always a reason that youre there, and a sense that youre included.
As a course facilitator, you are designing a learning community. Peer-to-peer learning is a network of people helping each other. Once you have your learning goals established, the next series of ideas to think about is how to build a community around those goals.
## How Do I Design a Community?
Good question. In order to design a stellar learning community, you'll need to think through a few questions. In your course, how will you:
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### Celebrate successes?
Each community has their own rituals to recognize success (think work anniversaries, juried art shows, ribbon-cutting ceremonies, etc.). These activities build a sense of quality in a community--what is imporant, what should the individual members strive to produce, what good collaborations might look like. Thinking about what you prize and measure is important in community design.
## How Do I Know if My Community is Healthy?
Community is a continuum.
Community is a sense of trust. Trust emerges when you share personal details.