Community of Learners (COL)

A community of learners is a group of people that share a common learning goal. They are usually classrooms, but they can also be entire college departments or even seemingly random people taking an online course together from multiple places in the world. By sharing a common goal, as well as common learning characteristics, a community is formed.

Source: http://www.edutopia.org/envision-schools-learning-community-respect