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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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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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