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Korzaan, Melinda; Lawrence, Cameron – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
This lab exercise exposes students to Evernote, which is a powerful productivity application that has gained significant purchase in professional work environments. In many academic settings the introductory computer applications course has a specific focus on standard productivity applications such as MS Word and MS Excel. While ensuring fluency…
Descriptors: Productivity, Computer Oriented Programs, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education
Levin, Robert; Doyle, Claire – Technological Horizons in Education, 1983
Discusses advantages of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in a community college writing/reading curriculum. Using word processing software, students write reports, themes, and essays on the microcomputer. Other software is used for learning vocabulary, grammar, reading rate and comprehension. Includes problems to avoid to ensure success in CAI…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories
Bartlett, Robin L.; King, Paul G. – 1989
The techniques used for teaching college economics have remained relatively unchanged over the past few decades. These techniques do not give the students an opportunity to apply, to develop, or to practice the economic theory they read about and hear in lectures. They tend to reinforce student assumptions about the subject's "givenness"…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Computers
Drummond, Marshall E.; Jablonn, Raymond – 1981
After introductory material outlining some of the major challenges facing community colleges today, this paper examines the efforts undertaken by Chabot College, California, to meet the demands of the problems posed by "new students" and fiscal constraints. Described first are Chabot's two mastery learning centers, at which students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Learning Laboratories, Mastery Learning
Palow, William P. – 1979
Using a $274,300 grant from the National Science Foundation, Miami-Dade Community College augmented its Mathematics Learning Center with a multi-media, computer-assisted program of individualized instruction designed to efficiently aid the growing number of students with mathematics deficiencies. This program has three interlocking components. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Individualized Instruction
Lever-Duffy, Judy C. – 1991
Although technology is potentially a powerful tool for improving the teaching-learning process, studies have shown that it is widely underutilized, with many faculty lacking expertise in and awareness of available technologies. Closing this gap between the availability of technology and faculty ownership of it is the function of an instructional…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Centers, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education
Palow, William P. – 1978
The assessment and placement system used in the Mathematics Learning Center of the New World Center campus of Miami-Dade Community College uses two test inventories: (1) a multiple choice mathematics test geared to the course which the student wants to pursue; and (2) the Canfield-Lafferty Learning Styles Inventory designed to determine an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Seltzer, Madeline – 1988
A project at Manor Junior College, Pennsylvania, developed further and implemented the tutoring programs in the Learning Center and integrated them with the Computer Tutorials Program. The objective was to increase retention and graduation rates and academic success of students enrolled in vocational programs. The reading, writing, and peer tutor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Research