My college career started at Middlesex Community College. It was there when I needed it, and I had an excellent semester. It gave me the boost I needed to get back onto the college track. In fact it is still one of the more memorable semesters of my many college experiences. My professors exhibited a real commitment to teaching. Bravo to our president for his focus on the community colleges.
The Community College Open Learning Initiative is the second wave of an educational experiment that gained attention recently from the Obama administration. Carnegie Mellon’s work has given about 300 classrooms around the world access to software-enhanced, college-level online-course material in subjects like biology and statistics. These digital environments track students’ progress, give them feedback, and tip off professors about where students are struggling so the instructors can make better use of class time.
Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with state agencies and national affinity groups, will establish a consortium of community colleges that will enact a large scale, systems-change process that increases efficiency in the way instruction is developed, delivered, evaluated, and continuously improved.
Obama’s Great Course Giveaway – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
If the Obama administration pulls off a $500-million-dollar online-education plan, proposed in July as one piece of a sweeping community-college aid package, this type of course could become part of a free library available to colleges nationwide..
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