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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2019
This article describes how community colleges have evolved from early computers to virtual campuses and beyond in just a few decades.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Educational History
Bresmer, Allison; Hynes-Musnisky, Elizabeth; Newlin-Wagner, Susan; Sikinger-Golde, Kerry – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2015
Incorporating various forms of social media in the classroom enhances learning and motivates students to contribute to class lessons and activities. This article discusses some successful approaches for implementing wikis, Facebook, Pinterest and Goodreads in the classroom. Social media in the classroom has proved beneficial to developmental and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Remedial Reading, Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education
Montana University System, 2019
The Montana University System Strategic Plan is the primary planning document of the Board of Regents. The Plan sets forth an agenda for higher education in Montana by delineating the strategic directions, goals, and objectives that guide the Montana University System (MUS). It is comprised of three primary goals that contain a series of sub-goal…
Descriptors: Universities, Access to Education, Student Costs, Labor Force Development
Montana University System, 2019
The Montana University System Strategic Plan is the primary planning document of the Board of Regents. The Plan sets forth an agenda for higher education in Montana by delineating the strategic directions, goals, and objectives that guide the Montana University System (MUS). It is comprised of three primary goals that contain a series of sub-goal…
Descriptors: Universities, Access to Education, Student Costs, Labor Force Development
Blick, William; Marcus, Sandra – College Student Journal, 2017
The use of Open Education Resources represents a noble cause, but the idea often remains elusive for many faculty members. In 2015, librarians at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, implemented a campaign to promote and facilitate the use and development of OERs. The primary objective was to reduce the growing…
Descriptors: Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services, Multimedia Materials
Tarabula, Jill M. – Computers in Libraries, 2013
Clinton Community College (CCC) is a small campus serving a rural
community just outside the city of Plattsburgh in upstate New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The Leroy M. Douglas Sr. Library (Douglas Library) is located in the George Moore Academic and Administrative Building (Moore Building). Prior to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Libraries, Library Administration, Space Utilization
Zinger, Lana; Sinclair, Alicia – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2013
Teaching in a diverse, urban community college, it has become apparent that students spend most of their free (and classroom) time participating in social media. In response, we decided to incorporate social media, blogs specifically, as a way to increase student engagement, retention and achievement. The learning objective was for our students to…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Learner Engagement, Learning
Beagley, C. Timothy – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2013
The Biology Department at Salt Lake Community College has used the IMG-ACT toolbox to introduce a genome mapping and annotation exercise into the laboratory portion of its Cell Biology course. This project provides students with an authentic inquiry-based learning experience while introducing them to computational biology and contemporary learning…
Descriptors: Documentation, Genetics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories
Saba, Farhad – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2012
In recent years, there has been a tremendous increase in the popularity of distance education among higher-education administrators. Students in growing numbers are also taking advantage of the flexibility and accessibility that distance education offers. This growth, however, has been a mixed blessing since it derives from using the Internet…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Information Technology, Individualized Instruction
Britto, Marwin; Rush, Susan – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2013
Student retention in higher education has become a critical focus in recent years. This paper describes the efforts of Lone Star College-Online and its Online Student Support Services unit to build and implement a comprehensive suite of services for online students with the intention of enhancing the
online student experience and ultimately,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Online Courses, Distance Education, Student Personnel Services
Johnson, Steven G.; Berge, Zane – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
This paper looks at three areas impacting online education at the community college level. Community colleges account for more than half of all online students in the United States as of 2006. This makes the success of online learning at the community college level a critical part of the growing online learning movement. Using data for…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Community Colleges, Online Courses, Computer Uses in Education
Twigg, Carol A. – Trusteeship, 2011
Face-to-face instruction has been held as the gold standard of a quality academic program. But using information technology to redesign traditional courses can actually improve the quality of teaching, cut costs, and improve access and success. A strong redesign often involves active learning opportunities; individualized, on-demand assistance; a…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Quality, Costs, Educational Change
Mulder, Fred – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
In its first decade (2001-2010) the OER movement has been carried by numerous relevant and successful projects around the globe. These were sometimes large-scale but more often not, and they were primarily initiated by innovating educational institutions and explorative individual experts. What has remained, however, is the quest for a sustainable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Multimedia Materials
Schlicht, Patricia – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2013
In today's world where tuition fees continue to rise rapidly and the demand for higher education increases in both the developing and developed world, it is important to find additional and alternative learning pathways that learners can afford. Traditional education as we have known it has begun to change, allowing for new parallel learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Open Education, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services
Mills, Nancy S.; Shanklin, Michael – Journal of Chemical Education, 2011
Students at two-year colleges and small four-year colleges have often obtained their exposure to NMR spectroscopy through "canned" spectra because the cost of an NMR spectrometer, particularly a high-field spectrometer, is prohibitive in these environments. This article describes the design of a NMR site at Trinity University in which…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Colleges, Spectroscopy, Science Instruction