The Accelerative Learning Companion For College Students

The Accelerative Learning Companion For College Students
Author: Jose M. Baltazar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1469142201

JOSE M. BALTAZAR is an award-winning Counselor and Instructor. He has worked in higher education for over 35 years. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration, and Human and Organizational Development. He holds certifications in Human Motivation and Leadership, Accelerative Learning, Brain Based Learning, and Reality and Choice Theory Therapy. He has taught college study and learning skills for over 20 years, and has helped hundreds of students improve their performance in college level courses by training them to use Accelerative Learning strategies to improve memory, recall, comprehension, and concentration. He also provides training to college and public school instructors on how to integrate Accelerative Learning strategies into their lessons. He has co-authored two books: Building Blocks-College Study Skills, and Wake up!-Live the Life You Want to Live: Living Your Life on Purpose.

The Accelerative Learning Companion For College Students

The Accelerative Learning Companion For College Students
Author: Jose M. Baltazar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 146914221X

JOSE M. BALTAZAR is an award-winning Counselor and Instructor. He has worked in higher education for over 35 years. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration, and Human and Organizational Development. He holds certifications in Human Motivation and Leadership, Accelerative Learning, Brain Based Learning, and Reality and Choice Theory Therapy. He has taught college study and learning skills for over 20 years, and has helped hundreds of students improve their performance in college level courses by training them to use Accelerative Learning strategies to improve memory, recall, comprehension, and concentration. He also provides training to college and public school instructors on how to integrate Accelerative Learning strategies into their lessons. He has co-authored two books: Building Blocks-College Study Skills, and Wake up!-Live the Life You Want to Live: Living Your Life on Purpose.

Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce

Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-06-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309440068

Skilled technical occupationsâ€"defined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's degree for entryâ€"are a key component of the U.S. economy. In response to globalization and advances in science and technology, American firms are demanding workers with greater proficiency in literacy and numeracy, as well as strong interpersonal, technical, and problem-solving skills. However, employer surveys and industry and government reports have raised concerns that the nation may not have an adequate supply of skilled technical workers to achieve its competitiveness and economic growth objectives. In response to the broader need for policy information and advice, Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce examines the coverage, effectiveness, flexibility, and coordination of the policies and various programs that prepare Americans for skilled technical jobs. This report provides action-oriented recommendations for improving the American system of technical education, training, and certification.

The College Completion Agenda: Practical Approaches for Reaching the Big Goal

The College Completion Agenda: Practical Approaches for Reaching the Big Goal
Author: Brad C. Phillips
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118862244

This volume provides practical ways colleges can focus on the College Completion Agenda. Originally begun as an economic workforce issue for the Obama administration, the College Completion Agenda has been adopted by myriad educational institutions, public and private funders, and others. The identified “Big Goal” is to increase the proportion of Americans with high quality college degrees and credentials from 39% of the population to 60% by 2025. To date, much advice has been offered to colleges about what the issues are and what needs to be done. However, there is considerable work being done at colleges around the country to address the identified issues. This volume introduces some of these policies and practices—the thinking behind them, research supporting them, roles to be fulfilled, and impact on the student experience This is the 164th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly report series, an essential guide for presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, this quarterly provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.

What We Know About CSCL

What We Know About CSCL
Author: Jan-Willem Strijbos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1402077793

This book is the first that presents an overview of the main topics involved in the study and implementation of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) from a learning viewpoint. It is also one of the few - or the only one - that does this from a research and practical instructional design perspective. Too many books begin with the medium and/or the environments used for CSCL, as if you would write a book on building a house by focusing almost primarily on hammers, saws and screwdrivers. The main topics are clustered in four sections that are derived from reverse ordering the CSCL acronym, because CSCL is all about learning through collaboration that is supported by computers. Although CSCL is increasingly advocated in higher education, specific CSCL implementations - i.e. something more than providing technology without a well developed educational rationale - are uncommon in higher education. The topics covered in this book, each including a review and several examples of current best practices in higher education, can stimulate 'informed' implementation of CSCL in higher education.

Community College Student Success

Community College Student Success
Author: Vanessa Smith Morest
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442214821

Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies are drawn from community colleges that are engaging in reform. Morest offers a three-pronged approach for community college leaders seeking to improve the success of their students. First, community college leaders need to look around at the technological transformation that has occurred in other service sectors and import some of these ideas to student services. Second, community college leaders need to explicitly socialize their students to become college students and to bond with their community college. Finally, improving the quality of teaching is particularly important with regard to developmental education, where students are attempting to master material that they have ostensibly been taught in the past.

Redesigning America’s Community Colleges

Redesigning America’s Community Colleges
Author: Thomas R. Bailey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2015-04-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0674425952

In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year—nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree within six years. This fact has put pressure on community colleges to improve academic outcomes for their students. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges is a concise, evidence-based guide for educational leaders whose institutions typically receive short shrift in academic and policy discussions. It makes a compelling case that two-year colleges can substantially increase their rates of student success, if they are willing to rethink the ways in which they organize programs of study, support services, and instruction. Community colleges were originally designed to expand college enrollments at low cost, not to maximize completion of high-quality programs of study. The result was a cafeteria-style model in which students pick courses from a bewildering array of choices, with little guidance. The authors urge administrators and faculty to reject this traditional model in favor of “guided pathways”—clearer, more educationally coherent programs of study that simplify students’ choices without limiting their options and that enable them to complete credentials and advance to further education and the labor market more quickly and at less cost. Distilling a wealth of data amassed from the Community College Research Center (Teachers College, Columbia University), Redesigning America’s Community Colleges offers a fundamental redesign of the way two-year colleges operate, stressing the integration of services and instruction into more clearly structured programs of study that support every student’s goals.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning
Author: Peggy Grant
Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1564845443

Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology is designed to help educators make sense of the shifting landscape in modern education. While changes may pose significant challenges, they also offer countless opportunities to engage students in meaningful ways to improve their learning outcomes. Personalized learning is the key to engaging students, as teachers are leading the way toward making learning as relevant, rigorous, and meaningful inside school as outside and what kids do outside school: connecting and sharing online, and engaging in virtual communities of their own Renowned author of the Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go series, Dale Basye, and award winning educator Peggy Grant, provide a go-to tool available to every teacher today—technology as a way to ‘personalize’ the education experience for every student, enabling students to learn at their various paces and in the way most appropriate to their learning styles.

Accelerated Distance Learning: The New Way to Earn Your College Degree in the Twenty-First Century

Accelerated Distance Learning: The New Way to Earn Your College Degree in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Brad Voeller
Publisher: Global Learning Strategies
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2001-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0970156316

Brad Voeller earned his four-year, fully accredited college degree in six months, for less than $5,000, by applying the revolutionary techniques of accelerated distance learning. Now, he shares with you this amazing new approach to learning that will allow you to earn the credential you need in less than half the time for a fraction of the cost. --from publisher description.