Career-Aligned Teaching and Learning
How can a relationship with industry impact what’s taught in the classroom? How can students emerge from community college prepared for the workforce? How can students jumpstart a career path when still in high school? In a recent visit to a Bridge to Biotech...
Acceleration – A Possible Solution to Attrition in Developmental Education Courses
Recently, there have been lively discussions among administrators and instructors on community college campuses about acceleration in developmental education courses. As a former post-secondary instructor, I am familiar with students who need to take developmental...
Collaboration as Key to Success for Low Income Students
This blog post is also available on Completion Matters. In financially tough times, is innovation in education possible? A May 10-12 meeting of the Communities Learning in Partnership (CLIP) initiative brought together representatives from 11 cities to discuss ways to...
OER Commons: An Education Ecosystem Using Knowledge Sharing
Originally published on the College Open Textbooks Blog:ISKME’s work in OER since 2005 has focused on identifying key opportunities for deepening the impact of OER adoption and use through research and practice that support enhanced teaching and learning. For example,...
Coding Open-Ended Survey Data
I recently started coding the BIF participant survey data using my typical method. I imported the data into excel, looked for patterns in the open responses, and developed categories based on what I found. For the BIF survey, there are 77 responses, and for many...