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Active Learning and Student Success
Velislava Karaivanova, Tammy Atchison January 2013
Volume: 16 Issue: 1
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A feature of today's students is their strong educational orientation and desire to learn (Barnes, Marateo, & Ferris, 2007). As active seekers of information, they use a variety of sources to learn, such as interactive media, traditional and online lecture notes, and cooperative learning (Carlson, S., 2005). To be effective and to promote better learning, teaching should include exposing students to various teaching techniques and methods.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
The Soft Side of Retention: Ways to Engage With Community College Students and Develop Their Best Possible Selves
Patricia M. Konovalov December 2012
Volume: 12 Issue: 12
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In order to best assist students, we must first be aware of the challenges they must overcome in order to achieve their higher education goals. Community college students are more likely than those at a four-year college or university to have completion risk factors for a myriad of reasons. They include lack of preparation, delayed entry to college after high school, first generation college participation, part-time college attendance, full time work while attending college, dependents at home, and single parenthood.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Taking the Why Out of the Equation: Formulas for Student Success
Sonya McCoy-Wilson, Laura Jones, Lauren Lopez, Gregory Chambers November 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 11
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In the foreword to Student Success in Community Colleges, John Nixon argues that our success in assisting students to discover their unique motivations is dependent upon our capacity to help them identify with the culture of higher education; with learning itself; and with faculty, staff, and other students (2010). Nixon suggests that the challenge of achieving identification is most effectively met at a college where programs and services are integrated across disciplines, and all faculty and staff are motivated by the mission of student success.
Tags: Student Services, Teaching and Learning, Learning Resources, Student Completion, Student Retention, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Innovative Critical Thinking Assignments for Student Success
Rose Mince, Mel Berry, Linda De La Ysla, Michael Venn, Nancy Parker October 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 10
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Critical thinking is a term that may mean different things to different people and that may vary to some degree depending upon the learning situation. Many academic definitions include some aspect of analysis and evaluation; higher order thinking skills often need particular attention and scaffolding in order to be fully achieved by the typical community college student. The purpose of this abstract is to share innovative yet practical teaching strategies to enhance student success.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teaching Strategies, Innovations
Exploring What Works in Online Advising
Kimberly Nolan September 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 9
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As more colleges add online courses and fully online programs, the need to offer support to online students becomes more apparent. Schools across the country are offering a full spectrum of online services from call-in hours to formal online advising and complete financial aid services. Given the connection academic advising has to student satisfaction and success in the literature, colleges should carefully examine their advising practices for online students.
Tags: Student Services, Student Retention, Innovations
A Classroom in the Clouds: Promises and Potential Pitfalls
Brian Fox August 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 8
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Our nation's higher education system, of which community colleges are an integral part, has experienced a sharp rise in the enrollment of online students. This increased enrollment brings with it not simply the demands of additional students, but an entirely new type of student requiring new strategies and technologies. Faculty and administrators, eagerly or reluctantly, are trying to meet these challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing educational landscape.
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Learning Environments, Innovations
Conquering College: Revisiting the Challenges Faced by First-Generation College Students
Timothy L.-Y. Wilson, Rebecca Andrews, Christine Foley July 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 7
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At a time when economic realities have helped many people recognize the benefit of postsecondary education and training, more and more students who traditionally would not have pursued a college education are enrolling on campuses across the country. This phenomenon enables students to realize their dreams, but it can also mean an increase in the number of students who are not fully prepared for the college experience.
Tags: Innovations
The Benefit of Visual Media in the Virtual Classroom: A Case Study From an Online Science Course
Jim Brinson, Patrick Boggs, Kasie Brinson June 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 6
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Both faculty and students can find it difficult to establish a student/instructor and interactive "human" relationship through an online environment, leading some skeptics to discount the possibility that online learning can be as effective as traditional learning. In science courses with a manipulative lab component, one way to help remedy this--and to teach abstract scientific concepts online--is to write, develop, produce, and effectively implement visual media and instructional laboratory videos.
Tags: Innovations
From Combat to Community College: Military Service Members in the Classroom
Holly Wheeler May 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 5
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The most comprehensive GI Bill since World War II, today's Post 9/11 GI Bill is one of the most significant factors leading military service members to community colleges. With numbers of service members who have served in support of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan topping 1.7 million (Randall, 2012), it is likely that the veteran population at community colleges will continue to climb. The transition experience of these veterans cannot be understated and must be addressed by institutions of higher education to help this population be successful.
Tags: Innovations
Supplemental Instruction for Increased STEM Student Success
Mark Filowitz, Sean Walker, Martin V. Bonsangue, Hye Sun Moon, Edward Sullivan April 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 4
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There is a critical shortage of U.S. students being trained in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, fields that are vital to effectively meet national and global strategic challenges. Fully one third of all Ph.D. graduates of known citizen status were non-U.S. citizen temporary visa holders. Many talented undergraduate students, under-represented minorities in particular, are deterred from continuing with degree programs in STEM due to the difficulties encountered in gateway courses of the hierarchical curriculum.
Tags: Innovations
Championing Technology Students: Annual Awards Presented at League's Innovations Conference
From the League March 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 3
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Jason Clinkscale, Cuyahoga Community College, Highland Hills, OH Jason is a Programming and Development student at Cuyahoga Community College where he is currently enrolled in IT Concepts for Programmers and Programming Logic. Jason is a former member of the United States Air Force where he trained and served in active duty status in the nuclear missile maintenance program learning the details of several Computer Science and Engineering concepts.
Tags: Innovations
Addressing Adjunct Faculty Needs at Anne Arundel Community College
LaTanya K. Eggleston, A. Lawrie Gardner, Lisa M. Starkey, Trish Casey-Whiteman February 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 2
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Through Anne Arundel Community College's (AACC) shared governance of faculty and administrative and professional staff, a faculty group supported by the manager of Institutional Professional Development comprises the Part-Time Faculty Affairs  Committee (PTFA) . This committee monitors factors impacting the welfare of our adjunct faculty. With its membership of both full-time and adjunct faculty, it also gives our adjunct colleagues a voice.
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The Campus Civility Video Project: Affirming an Implicit Societal Obligation of the Academy
Joseph Worth January 2012
Volume: 15 Issue: 1
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Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Tags: Innovations
Online Learning Today: What Works; What Doesn't
William Wade December 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 12
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In today's world of virtual course delivery, we are finding that what works for students is both easy to use and free, or if not free, then easily affordable. We live in a time of $0.99 apps and $20.00 software, and we no longer tolerate products that are difficult to use, expensive, and quickly outdated. West Kentucky Community and Technical College has been in the online learning business since 1991, when the college introduced an English composition course with an enrollment of twelve students.
Tags: Issues and Trends, Leadership and Organization, Administrative Services, Innovations
SkillsUSA in the Community College: A Significant Workforce Development Partner
Ken Scott, Charlene B. Anderson, Rosa M. Miles November 2011
Volume: 14 Issue: 11
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SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers, and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps all students excel in their training programs and future technical, skilled, and service careers, including health occupations. Nationally, SkillsUSA serves more than 300,000 high school and college/postsecondary students and their chapter advisors who are professional members. (SkillsUSA, 2011)
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