GlobalSkillsCC

Learning Management System

Platform for delivering learning content.

"...were created in 1965 at the City University of New York to assist students who have the potential to succeed in college but lack the educational foundation and economic resources necessary to pursue a degree."

By Shelia Tobias, New York: College Entrance Examination Board: Distributed to the trade by the MacMillan Pub. Co, 1987

By Cynthia A. Arem, Pacific Grove, Calif: Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., 1993

Foothill College (a GSCC school) offers the innovative and award-winning Math My Way program. From the description, Math My Way offers "a hands-on series of self-paced math learning modules that combine patient, caring, understanding instruction with a group of students who have similar math skill levels."

KP, a GSCC faculty member, is part of the Math My Way team. On March 12, 2010, she posted that the team would be meeting with Bill Gates in April.

Edited by Patrick Sullivan and Howard B. Tinberg, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, 2006.

JEC recommends a shared definition of basic writing, and that this book might help to start that discussion.

by David Glenn in The Faculty Section, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 5, 2010. See page 12. Jamie P. Merisotis, president of Lumina Foundation for Education gives the plenary at the annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in January 2010.

From PA: "According to the Chronicle, he (Jamie Merisotis) addressed this very issue of 'quality'"

On TED, Feb 2010. Jane McGonigal talks about an "epic win."

Youtube video. Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN)

Developmental Ed statistics in texas. Case for reform - highlights ATD and Gates money to colleges

iRubric is a tool that helps faculty design rubrics for assessment. This tool is part of the Rcampus suite of opensource tools.

Description of the VALUE Rubrics, designed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

A collection of related studies looking at college completion and student success from the ECS Research Studies Database. Studies are from a variety of sources -- not the ECS (e.g. Journal of Higher Education, National Bureau of Economic Research, and American Educational Research Journal).

By Neil Postman, New York: Viking, 1985.

By Susan Engel, New York Times Op-Ed, published February 1, 2010.

A free nation building simulation game. Inspired by the novel Jennifer Government by Max Barry.

World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that enables thousands of players from across the globe to come together online for an adventure through the fantasy worlds.

Center for Student Success (CSS) is part of the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (the RP group). This is a database of nearly 300 case studies.

Quia is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. It provides instructional tools including: templates for creating online activities, online testing tools, access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes, a schoolwide network to promote collaboration, a centralized classroom management system, a class Web page creator and online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback