Accelerating College Readiness and Student Completion In response to state-level changes in Texas, Clarendon College set out to change the way developmental education is offered to students by creating TSI Success Camps and combining developmental and academic coursework. This approach effectively eliminates developmental education in the traditional sense, reduces time to completion, and provides [...]
Questioning Curriculum Purpose and Process: Reflecting on a Major Curriculum Overhaul Issue No. 2 • October 2015 Questioning Curriculum Purpose and Process: Reflecting on a Major Curriculum Overhaul describes the critical questions raised and answered at Texas State Technical College as it combined its four formerly independently accredited colleges into a single accredited institution. [...]
2016 Scott Wright Student Essay Contest NISOD and Community College Week Announce the 2016 Scott Wright Student Essay Contest NISOD and its partner Community College Week are pleased to announce the opening of the annual Scott Wright Student Essay Contest held in honor of Scott Wright, past editor of Community College Week, and recipient [...]
Meeting Faculty Needs Through a Curriculum for Active Learning Series Houston Community College’s Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence supports over 3,500 full- and part-time faculty members’ instructional design needs through collaborative partnerships across disciplines and delivery modes. Short online modules and face-to-face consultations in individual and cohort options support active, collaborative, engaging, and [...]
PRIDE: Five Choices for Your Success Issue No. 1 • September 2015 Being a successful student is a tough job. In this first edition of The NISOD Papers, author Steve Piscitelli provides students with information about how they’ll have a better chance of success in school, work, relationships, and life in general when they practice the [...]
Using Google Web Apps to Improve Student Engagement This webinar, based on the article found at http://nisod.cc/1NLFGcz, provides an overview of Google web apps that are useful for in-class collaboration, as well as tips for effectively using the apps. Webinar participants learn how to set up Google web apps for classroom use, how to design [...]
Five Secrets to Spectacular Student Engagement Are you looking for a way to effectively use technology in your classroom? Even the best teachers struggle to keep the attention of distracted students browsing their email and newsfeeds during class. Dr. Colin Montpetit boosted participation by 49 percent after introducing a student engagement solution into his large [...]
What Our Students Need Most: The 7 Fundamental Conditions of Learning Anyone who works at a teaching-focused institution knows that learning is not a passive activity, for students or instructors. Gone are the days when the professor could simply stand in front of a room and drone on without looking up from his [...]
What Does It Take to Be a Successful Department Chair? Jim Hammons, Professor, Higher Education, University of Arkansas
A Matter of Degrees: Practices to Pathways Evelyn N. Waiwaiole, Director, Center for Community College Student Engagement, The University of Texas at Austin; Ruth Dalrymple, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Partnerships, Alamo Colleges
