Upcoming Presentations

League for Innovation in the Community College

Beyond Engagement: Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Learning Online

Date & Time TBD

Students and faculty both encounter challenges in the online environment. These challenges frequently manifest and are understood in terms of low student engagement. In this session, researchers and community college faculty will present a specific and actionable framework to bolster students’ abilities to remain motivated and manage their learning processes in online courses. The presenters refer to these mutually reinforcing mindsets and behaviors as self-directed learning (SDL) skills and they include motivational processes (e.g., self-efficacy), metacognitive processes (e.g., planning), and applied learning processes (e.g., help seeking). Presenters will describe a set of evidence-based instructional strategies to support SDL developed in collaboration with instructors at broad-access institutions. Speakers will share research findings on how the strategies have been implemented in postsecondary online STEM courses and their effect on student outcomes. A community college faculty member will share their experience implementing the strategies in an online biology course.

Presenters

Ellen Wasserman, Research Associate, CCRC

Allystair Jones, Department Chair, Science & Professor of Biology, Odessa College

Keena Walters, Education Research Associate, SRI Education

Redesigning Your Community College for Student Success: Lessons From Colleges Leading Whole-College Guided Pathways Reforms

Through the guided pathways whole-college redesign approach, Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) implemented academic pathways to support student success. In this presentation, CCRC researchers discussed how Tri-C and other pathways colleges nationally have redesigned their institutions to support student success through strategies designed to engage faculty and staff college-wide. Karen Miller of Tri-C provided detailed examples of strategies and considerations that guided Tri-C’s redesign efforts.

Participants

Assistant Director of Research and Director of Applied Learning
Community College Research Center
Research Associate
CCRC
Karen Miller
Executive Vice President of Access, Learning, and Success
Cuyahoga Community College

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