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Skills for Academic Success: Empowering Students to Make Informed Choices
Daryl Hansen, Larry Lindberg, Teri Quick November 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 11
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For nearly a decade, the national trend has been for an increasing number of college students to register themselves for their classes via phone banks and, more recently, online services. While professional advising continues to be offered, fewer working students have the time or inclination to use the service.
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A New Pedagogy for Learning Communities: Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum
Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Carl Waluconis October 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 10
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The spread of learning communities has generally proven to be beneficial for learning at colleges and universities. At the same time, their broad proliferation has occasionally meant dilution of some of their basic strengths. Moreover, once they arrive on a campus successfully, they tend to take hold and become unchangeable. This establishment of learning communities as an integral part of curriculum reform can be positive, but it can also leave those involved complacent about what they have created.
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Toward a New Way of Thinking and Learning: Becoming a Learning College
Steve Atkins, Connie Wolfe September 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 9
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At the start of [the 1990s], a new way of thinking about education began to emerge from a great variety of sources, a way of thinking that places learning as the central aim of the education enterprise. --Terry O'Banion
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In The Trenches: Assessment As If Understanding Mattered
Rene Diaz-Lefebvre August 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 8
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Effective assessment of student learning outcomes has been a major issue for higher education for a number of years. Commissions have issued position papers, reports have been disseminated, and there has been an increase in assessment literature (Banta, 1999).
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A Framework for Transforming Learning Organizations: Proposing a New Learning College Principle
Alicia Barbara Harvey-Smith July 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 7
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Setting the ContextThe trend in postsecondary education to embrace more learning-centered approaches must involve the examination and reshaping of institutional cultures to truly transform.
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Institutionalizing the Commitment to Learning: Evolution, not Revolution
Martha A. Smith, Andrew L. Meyer June 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 6
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive,nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."  Charles Darwin
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Rural Community Colleges and the Digital Divide
Sarah Butzen, Cynthia D. Liston May 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 5
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Since its creation, the internet--and more broadly, information technology--has been seen as the pathway to a renaissance for rural America. With instantaneous virtual communication replacing face-to-face interactions, farm owners would now need only 40 acres and a modem and could celebrate the quality and low rents of rural life in contrast to the crowding and pollution of large cities. By bringing about the death of distance, the internet would balance geographic inequities.
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Benchmarking Best Practices in the Learning College
Kay M. McClenney April 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 4
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Across North America, increasing numbers of community and technical colleges are committing themselves to an important and timely challenge: the transformation of good or even excellent institutions into colleges that are powerfully and effectively focused on student learning. An example of this commitment is found in the work of 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges* that have been part of the Learning College Project at the League for Innovation.
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Becoming a Learning College: Milestones on the Journey
Kay M. McClenney March 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 3
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Three years ago, the League for Innovation in the Community College identified through a competitive process 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges.
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Learning at a Deeper Level
Dale Lugenbehl February 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 2
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.--Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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The Learning Decade
William J. Flynn January 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 1
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Its a tough time to be in education right now. Our country is going through a major economic restructuring, with significant negative impact on state budgets and educational funding sources. The challenge of technology has vastly increased demand on college operating budgets to remain current and cutting-edge. The nature of work, jobs, and careers is changing rapidly, creating a nation of lifelong learners returning to colleges for training and retraining.
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Elements of Quality: The Sloan-C Framework
Janet C. Moore December 2002
Volume: 5 Issue: 12
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Educators have long sought to define quality in learning. Today, the powerful reach of online learning calls for proof of quality in all we do, as the emerging Internet-driven economy makes educational purpose more accessible and more visible than it has ever been.
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Students' Perspectives on Juggling Work, Family, and College
Lisa Matus-Grossman, Susan Gooden December 2002
Volume: 15 Issue: 12
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An important public policy challenge of the 21st century is how to increase opportunities for career mobility and wage progression among low-wage workers. Community colleges have the potential to play an important role in addressing this challenge, since receiving an associate's degree or vocational certificate is related to higher earnings.
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Survival Strategies for African-American Women in Community Colleges
Terri J. Hackett November 2002
Volume: 5 Issue: 11
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African-American women are entering community colleges in greater numbers each year, but apart from general information about enrollment trends among all African-American students, very little research has been conducted on success factors among this growing group of women who attend our institutions. Research indicates that academic and social fit between individuals and the institution is an important factor in determining persistence among African Americans in higher education.
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Making Distance Education More Personalized and Student-Friendly
Jonathan Kaplan, Vi To October 2002
Volume: 5 Issue: 10
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As online learning goes, Walden University is something of an eminence gris. Established in 1970, the university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and has graduated students from all 50 states and 30 countries. It offers graduate degrees at a distance in education, business, public health, and the social and behavioral sciences, as well as bachelor's degree completion programs in business administration and information systems.
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