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Community College Research Center (CCRC) - 0 views

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    The Community College Research Center (CCRC) is part of the Insitute on Education and the Economy, Teacher's College, Columbia University. From their site: "CCRC"s mission is to conduct research on major issues affecting community colleges in the United States and to contribute to the development of practice and policy that expands access to higher education and promotes success for all students."
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Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) - 0 views

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    In the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin, the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) was established in 1944. The program focuses on training community college leaders.
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Benchmarking & Benchmarks: Effective Practice with Entering Students - 0 views

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    Published by Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2010. This report looks at the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE), launched fall 2006. From the report, "To date, more than 91,000 students from 197 colleges in 37 states have participated in SENSE, thereby helping to create a wealth of new and actionable data about the entering community college student experience."
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The End of the American Graduation Initiative - 0 views

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    A report from the Brookings Institute that the 14 billion dollar American Graduation Initiative targeting community colleges was dropped from the president's education proposal when it was folded into the health reform initiative last week. Too bad.
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MLE - Moodle > Out-Of-The-Box m-Learning System For Mobile Phones - 0 views

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    Published in Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies, March 12, 2009. "MLE-Moodle is an out-of-the-box mobile Learning (mLearning) system, designed for mobile phones." With MCNC in particular, we've discussed how it might be helpful to be able to engage students/faculty/administrators in Polilogue via mobile phone in addition to computer.
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Theory-Based Evaluation and Types of Complexity - 0 views

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    By Nicoletta Stame, in journal Evaluation 10 (1): pp. 58-76, 2004. An examination of theory-based evaluations. This page contains only the abstract. The full article is available for a fee, or you may be able to obtain through your local library's document delivery services.
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Long Road to 'Gatekeeper' Courses - 0 views

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    By Scott Jaschik, in Inside Higher Ed, Dec 3, 2009. Announces the release of a study by Community College Research Center of Columbia University Teachers College (CCRC) looking at student success in community college "gatekeeper" courses.
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Leadbeater, Charles - 0 views

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    Leadbeater is a "management thinker" and an "authority on innovation and creativity." This site contains links to his publications (most notably We-think) and his recent work. For more on Leadbeater, see the leadbeater tag.
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Online Writing Lab (OWL) -- Purdue University - 1 views

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    This site offers various writing-related resources from grades 7-12, through college and for professional writers. Resources range from rules of various citation formats to proper cover letters and resumes.
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Fog city fundamentals : a proofreading skills book - 0 views

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    By San Francisco State University English department. Published by Pearson 1998.
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Social Bookmarking - 3 views

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    Published in ChemPaths, the Chemical Education Digital Library on Aug 11 2009. An overview of social bookmarking.
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Ning - 1 views

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    JEC recommends Ning, as "your students can "co-own" the site with you & add their own content--in other words, it's more student-centered (but you lose the institutional archiving functions) [of sites like Blackboard]."
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    Ning is a site where you can create social communities.
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New Media Consortium (NMC) - 1 views

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      JEC says "This is a great resource for getting ideas about teaching with technology--they have lots of resources. Good for us to know about! "
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    "The New Media Consortium (NMC) is a community of hundreds of leading universities, colleges, museums, and research centers. The NMC stimulates and furthers the exploration and use of new media and technologies for learning and creative expression."
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Dialogue, language and identity: critical issues for networked management learning - 2 views

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    By Debra Ferreday; Vivien Hodgson; Chris Jones; published in Studies in Continuing Education, Vol 28 (3), November 2006, pp. 223-239. A case study of a networked management learning course in higher education, this paper looks at dialogue and identity.
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What the best college teachers do - 2 views

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    by Ken Bains, published by Harvard University Press, 2004. From Booklist review, "With the strong conviction that good teaching can be learned, and after 15 years of observing teachers in action, Bain undertook an exploration of the essentials of effective teaching. The result is an insightful look at what makes a great teacher...."
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Understanding e-learning technologies-in-practice through philosophies-in-practice - 2 views

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    By Heather Kanuka, chapter 4 of Theory and Practice of Online Learning, ed. Terry Anderson, published by Athabasca University, 2E, 2008. The author suggests that, before evaluating whether new e-learning technologies work, it is important to reflect upon philosophies of technology and education.
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Transforming community colleges to accelerate success for low-income young adults - 1 views

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    Overview of the study being conducted by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. This study will look at seven specific research strategies within four different community college systems (in four different states). This page includes links to past and future presentations being given on this project.
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Rethinking developmental education in in community college - 1 views

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    CCRC brief #40, published by Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, Feb 2009. The brief, based on a longer paper, finds that developmental education is not particularly effective, and recommends for broad reforms better assessment, tracking students through early college years, and blurring the line between "developmental" and "college-level" students. The full paper is available as a PDF from this page.
Peter Adams

Community College of Baltimore County's accelerated learning program - 1 views

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    Overview of the study being conducted by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. "In this study, CCRC will conduct multivariate analyses of the effects of participating in ALP on student pass rates in English 101 as well as on other measures, including rates of persistence and passing college-level courses in subjects other than English."
Peter Adams

Uri Treisman's Joyful Conspiracy - 3 views

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    From Carnegie views: insights from educators, published by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Treisman is a well-respected mathematics educator and, in this video, describes the work of Carnegie Foundation and others in working towards math success for all students.
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