Volume XL, No. 5 | February 15, 2018 Online Learning: Creating a Culture of Accountability At Madisonville Community College (MCC), online courses are becoming an increasingly popular scheduling alternative. Our students demand the flexible scheduling available through online instruction, and if MCC doesn’t provide it, they seek it elsewhere. Over the last [...]
Member Spotlight - Ross Education, LLC The staff of Ross Medical Education Center believe our purpose is to provide our students quality training and student services necessary to undertake careers in the allied health fields. We provide a program that focuses on the clinical and the administrative aspects [...]
Volume XL, No. 4 | February 8, 2018 How Google Classroom Is Quickly Becoming My Learning Management System I typically do not like to use a new technology just because it’s trendy. However, if a new technology appears to be more effective or efficient than what’s currently available, I will test it [...]
NISOD Announces Campus and Regional Workshops Austin, Texas, February 5, 2018 – The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) announced that community and technical colleges can now arrange to have Campus and Regional Workshops brought to their area. Institutions can schedule a Campus Workshop exclusively for their faculty, administrators, and staff to [...]
Volume XL, No. 3 | February 1, 2018 Essay in Progress: Process and Application in Composition Writing When it comes to writing, I believe two things: there’s more than one way to write, and with practice and application, anyone can be an effective writer. Being a “good” writer seems to carry an [...]
Volume XL, No. 2 | January 25, 2018 Flipped Classroom: Pre-Class Assignment Process Imagine a world where your students come to class prepared! Does that sound too good to be true? For the past several years, my students have been coming to class prepared to start a new topic. According to a [...]
Volume XL, No. 1 | January 18, 2018 What Do Students Really Want? Providing students with the class syllabus is a top priority at the beginning of each semester. It is by understanding the class syllabus that students know what’s expected of them for the semester. However, during the process of discussing [...]
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Creating Entrepreneurial Learning Environments Issue No. 9 • January 2018 In “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Creating Entrepreneurial Learning Environments,” Bree Langemo, J.D., President, The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative, redefines entrepreneurship and discusses ways students benefit from learning an entrepreneurial mindset.
NISOD Celebrates Its 40-Year Anniversary Austin, Texas, January 1, 2018 – The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) is proud to announce its 40th year as the leading association promoting and celebrating excellence in teaching, learning, and leadership at community and technical colleges. NISOD will commemorate the occasion at its annual International [...]
Volume XXXIX, No. 31 | December 14, 2017 Helping Students Survive So They Can Succeed A recent Wisconsin HOPE Lab report (Goldrick-Rab, Richards, Hernandez, 2017) surveyed 33,000 students at 70 community colleges in 24 states and found that half of the students had unstable housing and two-thirds of them had low food [...]