Online Learning in Community Colleges

This chapter reviews the literature on online learning in community colleges, focusing online course-taking patterns, performance in online versus face-to-face courses, and factors affecting online course performance.
Pathways to Faculty Learning and Pedagogical Improvement

This issue of Inside Out explores how developmental education reforms can create opportunities for faculty to engage in professional learning related to instruction.
College 101 Courses for Applied Learning and Student Success

A study of College 101 courses at three community colleges in Virginia suggests that these courses could have long-term impacts if they focused more on the application and practice of learned skills.
Teaching Academically Underprepared Students in Community Colleges

This chapter discusses instructional approaches intended to prepare initially low-skilled college entrants for the reading, writing, and mathematics skills they need to learn from the postsecondary curriculum.
Teaching and Learning in the Dual Enrollment Classroom

Using qualitative data from California’s Concurrent Courses Initiative, this article explores how teaching in a dual enrollment program can foster new approaches to classroom pedagogy.