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The Digital Looking Glass: A Wonderland of Opportunities or a Reflection of Limitations?
Brian Fox December 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 12
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The problem of the digital divide often involves two assumptions: (1) that it is simply a matter of access to technology, and (2) that it is a matter largely affecting only developing nations. A quick review of current literature, however, dispels both of these notions. In technologically developed societies, the scope of the problem is actually quite large and involves Internet availability, computer and software costs, information and communication technology (ICT) training and education, and IT support.
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Integration and Persistence Among Community College Students
Melinda Mechur Karp, Katherine L. Hughes, Lauren O'Gara November 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 11
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Note: This issue of Learning Abstracts was developed by the Community College Research Center (CCRC), Teachers College, Columbia University. It is based on a longer report available online at http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=615. The research was conducted with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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First-Year Experience Program
Sylvia Jenkins, Joann Wright October 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 10
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The learners who enter higher education through the doors of community colleges represent many levels of academic preparedness and a variety of interests, ages, career objectives, and circumstances. Students identify the college environment and learning engagement among challenges they face in college (Astin, 1993). For students to persist and succeed both academically and socially, there needs to be a level of integration to the extent that students share the attitudes and values of peers, faculty, and communities within the college (Tinto, 1993).
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New Resources for Student Development
Earl Paul September 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 9
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Four new booklets written especially for college students and as resources for college student personnel and faculty were recently released and are now available at College Resources Online. Authored by Earl Paul at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, these booklets follow the successful reception of the book he released last year on student character and leadership. The four topics are ones the author has taught in classrooms and seminars through the years.
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DCCCD's Core 2009 Curriculum Initiative: An Inclusive Approach
Allatia Harris, Rebecca Williams August 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 8
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Like nearly half of the colleges in the country, the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) was founded in the mid-1960s. The first DCCCD college was established in 1966, and over the next twelve years, six additional colleges opened. While each college is separately accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the district is united by a single board of trustees, a shared curriculum, a common focus on student learning, a strong sense of collegiality, and a committee structure that encourages collaboration.
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Retention First Aid Delivers Student Success
Laurie Snyder July 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 7
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How better to engage students in a campuswide learning community and deepen the connection between student and coursework than a book club. The Justus Girls Literary Society at Monroe Community College?s urban campus is not just any kind of book club, but a literacy society for female students who read contemporary female authors. The book club helps students build close connections with faculty and enhance their education. Members also increase their reading outside of the classroom and participate in discussions with experienced readers trained in critical analysis.
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Playing in the Sandbox: Virtual Collaboration That Enhances Learning
Sharon Miller June 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 6
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A beach scene on the opening page of the Sandbox, an online resources site, invites Lone Star College System faculty members to step in and browse through a myriad of playful, practical, easy-to-use teaching resources. The Sandbox is a vital resource, and because it works so well, its concept has been adapted to several other disciplines across the five colleges and eleven satellite centers in our college system.
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Preparing Future Teachers for Meaningful Urban Education
Janet Waasdorp May 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 5
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Hands-on learning, a sculpted understanding of the classroom atmosphere, and creative lesson plans are just a few ways students in teacher education programs in community colleges will eventually teach students in urban school districts. Now more than ever, skilled teachers are needed due to the rise in the shortage of highly qualified math and science teachers in urban schools and challenges to their ability to positively engage students in their classwork. The Urban Education Institute at Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, New York, is addressing these issues.
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A Community College Learning Environment That Promotes Student Success
Ellen Schwab, Susan Walling April 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 4
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Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) is one of 15 public colleges and universities in Massachusetts? educational system. As declared in the BHCC mission statement, ?The system exists to provide accessible, affordable, relevant, and rigorous academic programs that adapt to meet changing individual and societal needs for education and employment.? Furthermore, the mission statement of BHCC asserts, ?The student body reflects the diversity of the urban community and encouraging this diversity is an essential part of the college mission.?
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The ASSESSMENT Primer: Creating a Flow of Learning Evidence
Ruth Stiehl, Les Lewchuk March 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 3
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Envision a white water river . . .flowing ? connecting ? diverging ? channeling. . . and you have a powerful image of a learning college. Envision a raft of students with a guide at the rear . . .anticipating ? paddling ? digging ? trusting. . . and you have an image of the ideal learning experience. Envision rapids increasing in difficulty . . .relevant ? engaging ? challenging ? even demanding. . . and you have the source from which learning evidence flows.
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Innovative Studies: Changing Minds for a Changing World
Elisa Robyn, Cindy Miles February 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 2
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"We can't solve problems by using the same level of thinking we used when we created them."
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MEtaMorph: Early Signposts on the Learning Journey
Ron Kindell January 2008
Volume: 11 Issue: 1
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Keeping in mind that Ohio students must choose a career-oriented curriculum as early as tenth grade, a team of secondary, postsecondary, and business partners working with Sinclair Community College in the College and Career Transitions Initiative (CCTI) created MEtaMorph, a career journey curriculum for ninth grade students. Introduction of career exploration opportunities in ninth grade pays huge dividends to community colleges in that future students begin to learn what they need to know to enter occupational education pathways.
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Using Second Life to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Robert Walker December 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 12
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Although online teaching and learning is a wonderful educational advancement, in some disciplines, it creates as many challenges as it solves. For example, how does one practice speaking in front of an audience in an online speech class? Can there be an online chemistry or biology lab? Online teaching and learning causes educators to discover new digital ways to successfully accomplish what they have been doing in the classroom for years.
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Fluency in Distance Learning, Six Tenets of Distance Learning and a Workshop Approach to Creating and Delivering Online Courses
Celeste Fenton, Brenda Watkins November 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 11
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The delivery of learning resources to sites remote from the point of origin of instruction, or distance learning, is the fastest growing mode of domestic and international education. CNN (2006) reported that one in six students enrolled in postsecondary education took an online course. The report also noted that 850,000 more students took online courses in the fall of 2005 than the year before, an increase of almost 40 percent.
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Online Learning Using Skype
Jeremy Clark, Claudia Ramis de Almeida October 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 10
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Luiza Cortesao (2000) predicts that the teaching profession will disappear if it does not keep in step with the needs of its clients. New technology is now making it possible for students to learn in individualized ways that were impossible just a few years ago. Skype is a communications tool permitting two-way audiovisual contacts over an internet connection. In theory, it permits any student to be taught by any instructor, anywhere in the world, independent of geographic or national boundaries. The only requirement is a personal computer, an internet connection, and availability.
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