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Effectiveness of Online Community College Success Courses
Melanie Abts June 2013
Volume: 16 Issue: 6
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The benefits of a community college education are many: a college educated population raises incomes and lowers poverty, creates opportunities and solves problems, reduces barriers, and elevates civic engagement (Kirwan, 2007; Rodgers, 2005). Community colleges are the largest and fastest growing sector of U.S. higher education, providing a crucial gateway to four-year institutions and addressing today's workforce needs. However, fewer than half of community college students complete their programs of study.
Tags: Student Services, Enrollment Services, Student Retention, Innovations
Practitioner Packets from CCRC: Translating Community College Research into Practice
Georgia West Stacey May 2013
Volume: 16 Issue: 5
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Over the past several years, the Community College Research Center (CCRC), housed at Teachers College, Columbia University, has conducted extensive research and generated dozens of publications on college readiness, online education, developmental education, student supports, and other issues relevant to community colleges. Of course, this research is more effective when it gets into the hands of the educators who are working every day to help students reach their goals.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Learning Resources, Innovations
What a World: How to Bring It to Your Students
Tara Ebersole, Rachele Lawton April 2013
Volume: 16 Issue: 4
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The Global Education program at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) began several years ago with a small group of individuals who embraced the increasing interconnectedness and diversity of the world and wanted to transform their students into global citizens who would be able to navigate that world. This required the development of a framework that would bring the world to CCBC's students. Today, Global Education is a collegewide initiative that encompasses many promising practices in teaching and learning.  
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Strengthening Online Discussion Forums
Karen Powers Liebhaber March 2013
Volume: 16 Issue: 3
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Discussion forums can be one of the best assets of the online classroom. However, many forums become a burden to both the student and instructor instead of a tool for encouragement, communication, variety, and learning.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Developmental Math at the CROSSroads
John Squires February 2013
Volume: 16 Issue: 2
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As course redesign sweeps across the nation's math classrooms and developmental math programs, it's time to take a second look at a landmark work on developmental education, Accent on Learning, by K. Patricia Cross (1976). From mastery learning to software-guided instruction and self-paced modules, the principles put forth in Accent on Learning are now being implemented at colleges throughout the nation, often with greater success than the traditional lecture system that, until recently, has been the primary mode of instruction in developmental math programs.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Programs and Disciplines, Innovations
Active Learning and Student Success
Velislava Karaivanova, Tammy Atchison January 2013
Volume: 16 Issue: 1
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A feature of today's students is their strong educational orientation and desire to learn (Barnes, Marateo, & Ferris, 2007). As active seekers of information, they use a variety of sources to learn, such as interactive media, traditional and online lecture notes, and cooperative learning (Carlson, S., 2005). To be effective and to promote better learning, teaching should include exposing students to various teaching techniques and methods.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
The Soft Side of Retention: Ways to Engage With Community College Students and Develop Their Best Possible Selves
Patricia M. Konovalov December 2012
Volume: 12 Issue: 12
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In order to best assist students, we must first be aware of the challenges they must overcome in order to achieve their higher education goals. Community college students are more likely than those at a four-year college or university to have completion risk factors for a myriad of reasons. They include lack of preparation, delayed entry to college after high school, first generation college participation, part-time college attendance, full time work while attending college, dependents at home, and single parenthood.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Taking the Why Out of the Equation: Formulas for Student Success
Sonya McCoy-Wilson, Laura Jones, Lauren Lopez, Gregory Chambers November 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 11
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In the foreword to Student Success in Community Colleges, John Nixon argues that our success in assisting students to discover their unique motivations is dependent upon our capacity to help them identify with the culture of higher education; with learning itself; and with faculty, staff, and other students (2010). Nixon suggests that the challenge of achieving identification is most effectively met at a college where programs and services are integrated across disciplines, and all faculty and staff are motivated by the mission of student success.
Tags: Student Services, Teaching and Learning, Learning Resources, Student Completion, Student Retention, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Innovative Critical Thinking Assignments for Student Success
Rose Mince, Mel Berry, Linda De La Ysla, Michael Venn, Nancy Parker October 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 10
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Critical thinking is a term that may mean different things to different people and that may vary to some degree depending upon the learning situation. Many academic definitions include some aspect of analysis and evaluation; higher order thinking skills often need particular attention and scaffolding in order to be fully achieved by the typical community college student. The purpose of this abstract is to share innovative yet practical teaching strategies to enhance student success.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Exploring What Works in Online Advising
Kimberly Nolan September 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 9
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As more colleges add online courses and fully online programs, the need to offer support to online students becomes more apparent. Schools across the country are offering a full spectrum of online services from call-in hours to formal online advising and complete financial aid services. Given the connection academic advising has to student satisfaction and success in the literature, colleges should carefully examine their advising practices for online students.
Tags: Student Services, Student Retention, Innovations
A Classroom in the Clouds: Promises and Potential Pitfalls
Brian Fox August 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 8
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Our nation's higher education system, of which community colleges are an integral part, has experienced a sharp rise in the enrollment of online students. This increased enrollment brings with it not simply the demands of additional students, but an entirely new type of student requiring new strategies and technologies. Faculty and administrators, eagerly or reluctantly, are trying to meet these challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing educational landscape.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Learning Environments, Innovations
Conquering College: Revisiting the Challenges Faced by First-Generation College Students
Timothy L.-Y. Wilson, Rebecca Andrews, Christine Foley July 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 7
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At a time when economic realities have helped many people recognize the benefit of postsecondary education and training, more and more students who traditionally would not have pursued a college education are enrolling on campuses across the country. This phenomenon enables students to realize their dreams, but it can also mean an increase in the number of students who are not fully prepared for the college experience.
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The Benefit of Visual Media in the Virtual Classroom: A Case Study From an Online Science Course
Jim Brinson, Patrick Boggs, Kasie Brinson June 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 6
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Both faculty and students can find it difficult to establish a student/instructor and interactive "human" relationship through an online environment, leading some skeptics to discount the possibility that online learning can be as effective as traditional learning. In science courses with a manipulative lab component, one way to help remedy this--and to teach abstract scientific concepts online--is to write, develop, produce, and effectively implement visual media and instructional laboratory videos.
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From Combat to Community College: Military Service Members in the Classroom
Holly Wheeler May 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 5
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The most comprehensive GI Bill since World War II, today's Post 9/11 GI Bill is one of the most significant factors leading military service members to community colleges. With numbers of service members who have served in support of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan topping 1.7 million (Randall, 2012), it is likely that the veteran population at community colleges will continue to climb. The transition experience of these veterans cannot be understated and must be addressed by institutions of higher education to help this population be successful.
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Supplemental Instruction for Increased STEM Student Success
Mark Filowitz, Sean Walker, Martin V. Bonsangue, Hye Sun Moon, Edward Sullivan April 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 4
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There is a critical shortage of U.S. students being trained in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, fields that are vital to effectively meet national and global strategic challenges. Fully one third of all Ph.D. graduates of known citizen status were non-U.S. citizen temporary visa holders. Many talented undergraduate students, under-represented minorities in particular, are deterred from continuing with degree programs in STEM due to the difficulties encountered in gateway courses of the hierarchical curriculum.
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