Congratulations August 21, 2009
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The following 14 college across the state were selected this year to participate in the state wide Universal Learning Project funded by the California Community College Chancellor’s Office/DSPS
Laney College
LA Harbor
American River College
Pierce College
Diablo Valley College
Monterey Peninsula College
Santiago Canyon College
Napa Valley college
College of Marin
Santa Rosa Junior College
Berkeley City College
San Joaquin Delta College
West Hills College
Fresno City College
Program Highlights:
1. Encouraging students to use higher level thinking skills via Smartxt Strategy Modules: An electronic textbook chapter embedded with an instructor’s metacognition, their thinking process, providing students a strategic approach to studying their textbook
2. Introducing ALL students to the benefits of flexible electronic textbooks with text-to-speech support and digital study skills tools
3. Students helping students
4. Exposing students with unidentified learning disabilities to DSPS support tools via their general classes
5. State Wide Universal Learning Conference highlighting participating colleges. Co-sponsored by Laney College and Kurzweil Software, Friday February 19th 2010 at Laney College, Oakland Ca
6. Program review documenting benefits to both instructors and students
Hi Molly,
Oregon, wonderful. We are actively looking into online classes. We will begin working with a hybrid Statistics class Spring 2010 that’s using our program with an Open Source Stats book. A number of other on-line instructors have expressed interest. Keep posted.
Additionally, We have a number of new colleges joining the network and we are currently working on a comprehensive website. It should be up and running early 2010.
Stacey
Let me know when!!!! My son has already given up. At our college he has “access” but without others on board its difficult and there’s little to no training. We would love some 100 level courses (at this point). I’ll keep posted.
Cool!!!! What we need in Oregon. Are any of these courses using these strategies available via distance education through any of these colleges?