Becoming a Connected Educator: Building Your Own Personal Learning Network The webinar facilitator provides an overview of various strategies and online resources that help faculty members stay current in their respective teaching disciplines. Social media tools as well as additional assets are explored. Webinar participants gain an understanding of what a Personal Learning Network (PLN) [...]
2016 NISOD Conference Excellence Awards Dinner and Celebration Video
Perceptions Meet Reality: Community Colleges and the Underprepared Student Perceptions Meet Reality: Community Colleges and the Underprepared Student Many in the field acknowledge that developmental education is broken. As a result, the field is currently in flux regarding processes and working with underprepared students: assessment, placement, curriculum, instruction, delivery of developmental education, and [...]
Kai Kight, Classical Violinist and Innovative Composer Kai Kight uses music as a metaphor to inspire individuals and organizations across the world to compose paths of imagination and fulfillment. Inspired by his own mother who, when diagnosed with cancer, revealed regrets of not bringing her ideas to [...]
Next Gen Learning: Are Faculty and Administrators Prepared? Next Gen Learning: Are Faculty and Administrators Prepared? Next generation learning provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to increase student engagement, outcomes, and retention; better prepare students to be successful in today’s workplace; and reduce cost for institutions and for students. Come learn how the [...]
Kai Kight, Classical Violinist and Innovative Composer Dr. Gail O. Mellow has served as President of LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens since 2000. A member of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, LaGuardia is a nationally recognized leader among community colleges [...]
An Entrepreneurial Mindset for Student Success Issue No. 3 • May 2016 In “An Entrepreneurial Mindset for Student Success,” Gary Schoeniger, Founder and CEO, The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative, and Bree Langemo, President, The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative, offer an inside look at a promising new approach to student success designed to harness the power of entrepreneurial [...]
The QUEST: The Completion Project for Males of Color in Community Colleges This webinar highlights the design, development, and delivery of a quality educational program for males of color using a zero-dollar budget. The facilitator reviews the various definitions of learning communities and describes why their implementation is imperative—to help males of color complete the [...]
An Entrepreneurial Mindset for Student Success An entrepreneurial mindset can empower ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things; it is a mindset that exposes opportunity, ignites ambition, and fosters the intra- and interpersonal attitudes, behaviors, and skills that lead to success in college and in life. This webinar offers an inside look at a [...]
Volume XXXVIII, No. 15 | May 6, 2016 Economics: The Not-So-Dismal Science Economics has a reputation for being a dismal science. You can make the argument that any subject matter is dismal, and that how it’s taught is what makes all the difference. I think economics is anything but dismal. Economics is the [...]