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Getting Results: Lessons on Strengthening Community College Teaching
Kay M. McClenney September 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 9
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Since 2004, the WGBH Educational Foundation and the League for Innovation, with funding from the National Science Foundation, have collaborated in developing, field-testing, and disseminating new multimedia resources designed to foster effective educational practice among community college faculty.
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Teaching Oral Communication Online Without Losing the Oral
Anthony Ongyod August 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 8
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"But how can you teach oral communication online?" It is a valid question without a simple answer. Teaching online effectively is difficult enough, but teaching a performance course such as oral communication online can be incredibly frustrating for both instructors and students. Contemporary distance education online has been predominately composed of text, pictures, and links to resources.
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Benchmarking Workforce Development: Setting the Standard
Kathy Yeager July 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 7
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How do colleges across the country compare in the workforce development area? Leaders in workforce development want to know what programs to offer, how to proactively sell contract training, hire the right consultants, price correctly, and generally run workforce development like a business in an academic atmosphere. The Center for Business and Technology at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) had the same interests.
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Leadership in Residence
Kelly Dawn Steele June 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 6
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For many years, the topic of living in residence has been given relatively little attention in community college education. Rather, institutions tend to focus on issues such as information technology, learning colleges, funding, access, and accountability mandates. While all of these areas are indeed very important, in recent years, we have come to realize the importance of students living environments, specifically students who are living in community college residences.
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Connections That Empower Learning
Alicia Harvey-Smith May 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 5
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Learning Is About Making ConnectionsK. Patricia Cross (1999) asserts that "learning is about making connections." She describes the process by which learning occurs in the brain through neurological connections. Similarly, I suggest that within higher education, authentic collaborations between academic affairs and student affairs represent the connection necessary for transformational learning.
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A New Resource for Student Leadership Development
Earl Paul April 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 4
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A new book on college student leadership, So You Want to Be a Leader? What Every College Student Should Know, has recently been published and is a welcome resource for college educators who are addressing leadership, character, and soft-skill development with their students. Written by Earl Paul at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, the book is a result of his years of advising and teaching students in multiple aspects of leadership.
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Faculty Development for Getting Results
League for Innovation March 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 3
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In the fall of 2005, the League for Innovation joined a project with WGBH-TV in Boston to create and disseminate Getting Results, a set of multimedia professional development modules freely available to community college faculty. Funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, Getting Results focuses on the teaching of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics specifically in ATE classrooms.
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Making Student Learning Visible
Shree Iyengar, Ken Jarvis February 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 2
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Making student learning visible is intriguing. Every day we teach a group of students, discuss an assignment, or grade student work, we probably wonder if students are learning what we think we teach them. Teaching is visible, or at least we think it is, when we upload a document for an online class or when we pick up a piece of chalk and write that quadratic equation, a chemical formula, a definition, an algorithm, or draw a diagram on the blackboard. Is student learning visible? Students can cram up the night before a test, spit stuff back at us, and earn a B here or an A there.
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Quality Online Education: A Social Authoring Approach
Ruth Rominger January 2007
Volume: 10 Issue: 1
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Online education has become ubiquitous, driven by a wide variety of forces. Last year's estimates of colleges offering some type of online education reached 90 percent. Faculty in every type of higher education institution are using course management systems, web links, and digital versions of lecture notes to put some or all of their course material online. Given the pervasiveness of online education, is the quality of the learning experience increasing? The answer is probably no.
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EPI: A Fast Track to K-12 Teaching
Jess Delaney December 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 12
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When a nontraditional student asks, "Where can I learn how to become a teacher fast?" the answer in Florida is, "At your local community college." Florida's Educator Preparation Institutes (EPI) are an efficient, cost-effective, and creative way to train nontraditional students as K-12 teachers in high-need subject areas like reading, math, and science.
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Problem-based Case Learning: The Case Files
Jim Johnson, Ruth Loring November 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 11
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Responding to a nationally recognized need for improved technological education, Nashville State Community College (NSCC) has developed and tested an effective process for creating major changes in teaching strategies and subsequent redesign of course structures in engineering technology and information technology. Problem-based Case Learning (PBCL) is at the heart of The Case Files, an NSF/ATE-funded project that builds on the results of other NSF/ATE project grants at NSCC.
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The Magic of Storytelling at South Mountain Community College
LynnAnn Wojciechowicz October 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 10
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Storytelling is the oldest form for communicating events, beliefs, traditions, values, and goals that people have. It is an interactive art form that relies on the relationship between the teller, the listener, and the story. Storytelling brings people together in community. The story of storytelling at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, begins in the fall of 1994 when two faculty members, Lorraine Calbow and Liz Warren, attended a statewide Tellers of Tales conference where they experienced the magic of this ancient art form.
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Growing Enrollments and Creating Sustainable Partnerships
Vickie Cook September 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 9
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In today's educational climates, creative and innovative programs are sought to launch new enrollments and answer the needs of the community college service area. Climate stressors of strained budgets, aging buildings, demand for highly qualified employees, and unparalleled competition among postsecondary education providers create the need for new paradigms regarding partnerships. Leadership teams within community colleges have chosen to explore partnerships and collaborations that will assist in bridging gaps and creating centers of learning within their service areas.
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Service Learning and Career Education: Not Mutually Exclusive Objectives
Jeffrey A. Cantor, Betty Salter August 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 8
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Typically, career education programs tend to focus almost exclusively on the educational outcomes that are related to the technical discipline, trade, or craft. Yes, work-related affective competencies, such as arriving at the job site on time and calling one's supervisor if an absence is required, are also factored into the curriculum. However, more and more, service to community has become an important aspect of one's education, including career education.
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Critical Thinking: Two Misperceptions
Dale Lugenbehl July 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 7
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Educators attach great value to the development of critical thinking skills. However, our attempts in this area can be diminished by a narrow and inaccurate perception of what critical thinking really is. The following is an investigation of two major misperceptions: (1) Critical thinking is somehow necessarily related to debate, and (2) critical thinking is synonymous with critique.
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