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Tools for Building an Outcomes-Based College Curriculum
Ruth Stiehl, Les Lewchuk February 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 2
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We fill our college catalogs with a litany of courses - often disconnected, modularized units of learning - taught by faculty who rarely talk to each other. The student's experience has often been one of registering for the required courses, passing each course separately, and ending with a transcript that shows each individual part has been completed successfully..What's wrong with this picture?--From The MAPPING Primer Stiehl and Lewchuk, 2005
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Improving Learning Through Understanding of Brain Science Research
Khaki Wunderlich, Annette Bell, Lisa Ford January 2005
Volume: 8 Issue: 1
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In his book, Intelligence Reframed, Howard Gardner noted, "The challenge of the next millennium consists precisely of this: Now that we know about the enormous differences in how people acquire and represent knowledge, can we make these differences central to teaching and learning? Or will we continue to treat everyone in a uniform way?
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Seven Principles for Training a Culturally Responsive Faculty
Christine Johnson McPhail, Kelley L. Costner December 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 12
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Many community colleges are struggling to find ways to train faculty to work with their diverse student populations. However, many institutions continue to employ traditional modes of faculty development and may be inadvertently creating potentially harmful learning environments for all students, and particularly for African-American learners.
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Resources for Learning
League for Innovation November 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 11
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Each year, the League for Innovation in the Community College offers a range of publications, programs, and services for community college professionals who wish to enhance learning outcomes. Now and again, in an effort to highlight these resources, we use an issue of Learning Abstracts to profile a number of significant offerings. Here is a look at some publications, services, and resources that may help you stay informed and abreast of learning trends in higher education.
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An Assessment Framework for the Community College
League for Innovation October 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 10
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Through the collaboration of a dedicated advisory team of community college practitioners and assessment industry experts, the League for Innovation in the Community College and Questionmark Corporation have facilitated a white paper titled "An Assessment Framework for the Community College: Measuring Student Learning and Achievement as a Means of Demonstrating Institutional Effectiveness."
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Focus on Learning: A Community College Counseling Center Responds
Amanda Costin, Tyjaun A. Lee September 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 9
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The Cuyahoga Community College (CCC) counseling center focuses on academic, personal, and career counseling. With its Focus on Learning model (FOL), the center has developed a forward-looking initiative that helps facilitate student learning by identifying six strategic areas that contribute to student success, and developing programs in those areas that facilitate student attainment.
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Building General Education at St. Louis Community College: Innovation and Tradition
Ann Roberts Divine August 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 8
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Nothing is more traditional in higher education than the core of general education on which specialized study is founded. In recent years, there has been much focus on general education, as states and institutions throughout the country have re-examined and revised general education requirements with the intention of better preparing students for the challenges of greater complexity, diversity, and technology. Missouri and, by extension, St. Louis Community College (SLCC) are no exceptions.
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Informed Decision Making in the Community College
Lisa A. Petrides July 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 7
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The information needs of community colleges are growing increasingly complex, while pressures to improve results reach to every function of the college. In community colleges across the country, faculty members, staff, and administrators are working to improve the ways that data and information are used within the college to enhance educational services and student outcomes. Community colleges throughout the United States represent the full spectrum in terms of how they use data and information to support decision making and how they transform knowledge into action.
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Perspectives and Principles for Designing Learning
Judith V. Boettcher, Rita-Marie Conrad June 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 6
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Many faculty in higher education have a great deal of experience in designing and delivering instruction, but they might not have had the time or opportunity to learn about teaching and learning research in any formal way. Rather, postsecondary faculty generally come to the teaching experience with a high level of competence in a content area. They then learn about teaching and learning through peer observation, collegial discussion, trial and error, and their own educational experiences. Many faculty are unconscious competents in the discipline of instructional design.
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Career Academy Programs: Career Edge for the New World of Work
David Bunting May 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 5
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In late 1998, Kirkwood Community College (IA) was approached by a local school district regarding the need to create new, dynamic learning opportunities for high school students that would help them be better informed and better prepared for their future.
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The Courage to Learn
Mark David Milliron April 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 4
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Your courage astounds us. We probably don't tell you this enough. You see, we too are pushed and pulled by classes, calendars, and the constant press of our work in education. But when we slow down, look around, and soak in all of your stories, we are humbled.
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Why Not Assess and Document All Learning?
William J. Flynn March 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 3
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As we look forward to the second Learning Summit, to be held in Baltimore in the summer of 2004, it may be an appropriate time to look back at some of the movements and events that have shaped the community college agenda in recent years. The conference’s focus on assessment is relevant and timely, given the direction taken by regional accreditation agencies in recent years.
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The Recovery of Persons
Sanford C. Shugart February 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 2
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"Organization kills spirit" (Greenleaf). There's a cheerful thought for the future of our colleges. In the context of Greenleaf's argument, however, this was meant to convey something essential about the behavior of our institutions as they mature.
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Maximizing Student Success: A Library and Nursing Department Web Partnership
Pam Czaja January 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 1
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Faculty and librarian collaborative partnerships have been a component of the academic experience for a number of years. Some well-known examples of collaboration include working with faculty to assess library collections in support of instructor and curriculum needs, instruction in the use of library materials to support class assignments, and creation of subject bibliographies to support course content. These library services were initially created in an era when printed materials were the primary source for information.
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Student Success Anomalies: Why Do We Do the Things We Do?
Hank Dunn, Anna Mays December 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 12
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Numerous pressures face the modern community college, not the least of which is the need to promote student-learning success. Many institutions now focus on being learning colleges. However, even as institutions take proactive steps to become learning centered, some foster practices that not only do not contribute to learning, but detract from it.
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