Carteret Community College, see their blog, have used T3 funding to rethink approaches to advising, assessment and distance learning to improve retention rates. Distance learning (aka Online ed.) thrust their program into a leadership role thru/due to aggressive professional development opportunities.
They used Skype to live webconference in the presentation. They also reccommended http://www.dimdim.com/ as a tool to web-conference. It's free and they said it's excellent software. They've also used all these tools and IM (Instant Messaging) to provide tutoring/ support to students.
Donald Staub, their director noted that administrators and facuty don't know what Title III is and we need to communicate with them better. One thing he does is to pay for adjuncts to cover faculty classes so that key faculty can attend professional development. He also reccomended
- we find out the attrition rate for online classes, as well as web-enhanced classes
- we establish a common language (specifically lexical) for our discussions
- we ask deans, "how would you like to see teaching change on campus"
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