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How Defining Outcomes Brought Success, From Baltimore to Belize and Beyond
Tara Ebersole June 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 6
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I currently serve as the Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Learning and Student Development at The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC). In that role, I wear many hats, among them acting as the Accreditation Liaison Officer, coordinating the new faculty learning community, providing general oversight to our international education program, and facilitating our course-level assessment process. I also spent 23 years teaching biology prior to becoming a full-time administrator.
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CompTechS: A Second Chance for Computers and a Helping Hand for Students
Daniel Dishno May 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 5
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CompTechS is a program run by Foothill-De Anza Community College District's Occupation Training Institute (OTI). It is both a computer recycling program and an internship program for students who want a career in information technology (IT). With the help of the community, we are able to take donations of older computers, refurbish them, and give them to needy students in the district. Student interns start refurbishing these donated computers in our on-campus lab.
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Getting Results: A Free Online Resource for Faculty Development
League for Innovation April 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 4
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The League for Innovation and WGBH-TV in Boston are pleased to announce the availability of Getting Results, a set of six multimedia professional development modules for community college faculty. Funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Program, Getting Results focuses on the teaching of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics specifically in ATE classrooms.
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Accreditation and the Learning College: Parallel Purposes and Principles for Practice
Ronald L. Baker, Cynthia Wilson March 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 3
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In the early years of the learning college movement, those of us who were involved in projects focused on the learning college repeatedly heard familiar reasons for resistance. The most popular of these focused on lack of resources and on resource allocation, but close behind them was a perception that the accreditation processes do not support the work of the learning college. Regardless of where we were in the U.S.
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Online Professional Development: A Community College and K-12 Partnership
Celeste Fenton, Brenda Ward Watkins February 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 2
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The rapid growth of technological tools has created a new workforce model vastly different from the 20th century model. This new economic model is knowledge based, and its expansion is challenged by lack of training for teachers.* Research shows that teacher professional development is a critical factor in student achievement. But with grading, lesson planning, meetings, school duties, parent and student conferences, who has time for training?
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Online Student Support Services: A Best Practices Monograph
Vickie Geisel January 2006
Volume: 9 Issue: 1
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Editor's Note: This issue of Learning Abstracts features the introduction to Online Student Support Services: A Best Practices Monograph, a free online resource for student services personnel that showcases examples of effective practice in providing services to online students. The monograph was created as a part of the grant-funded Online Student Support@Every College at Tyler Junior College (TX), supported by Carl Perkins Funds provided by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
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Scenario-Based Learning for a More Relevant Student Experience
Catherine Ayers, Jane Ostrander December 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 12
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In a very telling presentation last year, Doug Busch, Vice President of Intel Corporation, laid out the reasons why industry is not likely to reverse the outsourcing trend: Basically, technical workers in Asia, India, and Eastern Europe are attractive because of their skills, cost, and availability. To be competitive, American workers need to excel as creative problem solvers, understand the business culture, demonstrate excellent communication skills, and succeed in collaborative environments. How can community colleges better prepare students to meet this challenge?
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Solutions: Adjuncts as Academic Advisors
Maribeth E. Anderson November 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 11
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One recurring challenge on any college campus is how to effectively handle academic advising of students. Results from the 2004 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) indicated that while 88 percent of the community college students surveyed rated academic advising and planning as very important, only 54 percent of the students reported actually using the services. A probable cause for this disconnect is that many students substitute or equate the registration process with the advising process.
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Global Studies and the Learning Community: Italy 2005
Carol Berger, Chris Stephens September 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 9
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As we continue to move toward a globalized curriculum, direct experience in international culture and language will become an increasingly important aspect of a student’s education and a faculty member’s professional development. Learning community theory lends itself well to facilitating opportunities for students and faculty to explore and benefit collaboratively while offering long-lasting benefits to the campus community. With this in mind, two faculty members at St.
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Quality by Design: Building Courses That Work for Learners is No Coincidence
Rob L. Wood August 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 8
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What does it mean to say that a course has quality? By many criteria, the quality of a course is demonstrated, ultimately, by the extent to which learners have learned. Further, it is demonstrated by the extent to which learners can apply their learning in various contexts, both academic and nonacademic.
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From Silos to Strip Malls
Ron McMurtry, William Wade July 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 7
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It often seems that educational institutions, divisions, departments, and course content areas all act as individual, independent entities. As silos, they stand against the horizon, walled entities dotting the landscape, keeping their distance from other institutions in philosophy, definition, and format. In this stance, they operate in isolation and do not collaborate with other institutions, divisions, departments, or course content areas to see where they might work more efficiently.
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Getting High School Students Academically Ready for College
Hank Dunn, Sara Smith June 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 6
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Are you ready to have your incoming high school students academically prepared to begin college-level courses from the first term they enroll with you? At Sinclair Community College (OH), we were.
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Becoming a Learning Campus: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality
Carolane Williams May 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 5
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Building a path toward becoming a learning campus doesn't just happen. It takes a concerted effort on the part of all campus faculty, staff, and administrators to move this vision from being the educational phrase du jour to actually becoming the way the institution operates. A learning campus in its practical sense is more of a journey than a destination. Therefore, it is imperative that the path be paved with concrete plans and activities that will generate enthusiasm, solicit campuswide support, and promote an environment where good ideas can take root.
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The Learning College Network
Cynthia Wilson April 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 4
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In January 2000, the League's Learning College Project was launched with an invitation to community colleges across the U.S. and Canada to apply for participation as Vanguard Learning Colleges - those leading the movement toward becoming more powerfully focused on learning.
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Institutional Planning for Student Success At Sinclair Community College
Hank Dunn, Anna Mays March 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 3
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Do you want to improve student success? Sinclair Community College did. Located in Dayton, Ohio, Sinclair is a college of approximately 23,000 students, serving a predominantly urban population. As with many urban colleges, it has a large population of at-risk students who need a very personalized approach to enrolling in and being successful in the college experience.
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