Volume XXXI, No. 23 | October 16, 2009 “INTERACTIVE ERRANDS”: TOOLS TO ENHANCE THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF ESL STUDENTS Rationale We all understand that people who leave their native countries have difficulty adjusting to the language and customs of a new land and are likely to have a difficult time locating and using [...]
Volume XXXI, No. 22 | October 9, 2009 Teaching First-Generation College Students Valuable strategies for getting to know your first-generation college students include making good use of written communication, electronic communication, and roundtable conversations. The syllabus is the contract between instructor and student. A teaching tool of standardized elements and strands carried out [...]
Volume XXXI, No. 21 | October 2, 2009 ON THE VALUE OF REINVENTING THE WHEEL When I first joined the League for Innovation in 1975, one of my first tasks was to become acquainted with the member colleges. During that first year, I visited 35 campuses, spending one or two days on each, [...]
Volume XXXI, No. 20 | September 25, 2009 CREATING A FAMILY OF CLIENTS FOR PARALEGAL STUDENTS How do the members of the Litigant family educate the Middlesex Community College (MCC) paralegal students in the practice of law? Sue, Lowell, Grandpa Bradford, children Alison and Christopher Litigant are all involved in a multitude of [...]
Volume XXXI, No. 19 | September 18, 2009 LEARNING STRATEGIES: THE FLIP SIDE OF TEACHING STRATEGIES I am happy to report that educational psychologists, demonstrating their infinite wisdom, have once again found students. This may appear to be a curious statement to those of you who never knew we lost them. However, for [...]
Vol. XXXI, No. 15 - May 8, 2009 Global Perspectives— Enhancing Research A presentation at the 2008 League for Innovation Spring Conference in Denver, by Lauren Sabel, Front Range Community College, featuring her unique design to establish a global perspective concept into a research essay class, caught my attention. The typical English research [...]
2008-2009 Innovation Abstracts Issue Description Vol. XXXI, No. 15 May 8, 2009 In “Global Perspectives: Enhancing Research,” Stephen Holland, English and Education Faculty, at Muscatine Community College (IA), describes a strategy for helping students move from simple presentations of information to critical levels of thinking. Helping students gain perspective about global relationships [...]
2007-2008 Innovation Abstracts Issue Description Vol. XXX, No. 15 May 2, 2008 In "The Natural Athlete: A Comfortable Myth," Suanne Roueche, currently Editor of NISOD Publications, describes 10 strategies for improving athletes' performances that have proven to work equally as well for improving academic performance. This issue, originally published in 1983, is [...]
2006-2007 Innovation Abstracts Issue Description Vol. XXIX, No. 15 May 4, 2007 In “Challenging the Myths About Online Learning,” Robert Mendenhall, President, Western Governors University (UT), and Mark David Milliron, former NISOD Director, at The University of Texas at Austin, discuss 10 of the most common myths that faculty believe about this [...]
2005-2006 Innovation Abstracts Issue Description Vol. XXVIII, No. 15 May 5, 2006 In “Practical Advice: Focusing on the Attentional Needs of College Freshmen,” Lori Norin, Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, describes her successful strategies for responding to barriers that ADHD creates for an unfortunate number of [...]
