Information Competency Project

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The Internet, and the technology which
supports it, may well constitute the third modern
revolution in higher education. The land-grant
movement in the Nineteenth Century brought access
to higher education to the middle class. The
community college movement of the Twentieth
Century brought universal access to higher
education. The technology revolution of the
Twenty-first Century can bring access to all
beyond the bounds of time and place.Dr. James
J. Stukel, PresidentUniversity of Illinois
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Planning Technology Programsusing an Inclusion
Based Systems Approach

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Jannett Jackson, PhD Fresno City College Terri
Hackett, PhD Seattle Central Community College
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Research based
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Correlation of 2 Studies

• Gap between those that have technology and
  therefore access to information and those who do
  not is called the digital divide.

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Distance Education Focus

• Asynchronous Online Instruction
• Web-based instruction
• Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
• interactive learning communities---
  not limited by time, place, or the
  constraints of a classroom
  (Mayadas, 1997)

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Distance Education Focus

• 4 courses Developmental Math, English,
  Management, History
• Teachers self-selected, pre-requisite excellent
  teaching record
• Teaching experience totaled over 60 years
• Teaching online for at least two years
• Using multiple formats (2-way interactive, ITV,
  F2F, and online, for the same course)

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Survival Strategies of African-American Woman

• African-American women in community college
• Most research is quantitative not qualitative
• Most research is from others perspective not the
  students

• Ten African-American community college women
• Full-time Four or more quarters, and completers
• Methodology Portraiture

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Demographics of Participants
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Distance Education Data Collection
1 2 out of the five students who dropped never
participated in the course. 2 Of the 13 students
who dropped or withdrew from the class, 3 never
participated and 2dropped for health reasons. 3
Information was not available on the students who
dropped in the History course therefore these
totals were computed separately.
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Distance Education Data Collection
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Survival Strategies of African-American Woman

• Findings
• In order to succeed there needs to be an academic
  and social fit
• Programs and activities that address their needs
  directly
• Institutions can institute programs to improve
  persistence of African-American women

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Survival Strategies of African-American Woman

• 7 major themes were revealed during this study
• Family
• Responsibility of self for success
• Spirituality
• Institutional Climate
• Employment
• Finances
• Encouragement of friends/others

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Distance Education Findings

• Good courses were found to have
• knowledgeable professors,
• a sense of community,
• interaction between professors and students,
• a student centered approach and
• opportunities for students to learn individually

World Class Strategies, November 2002,"Criteria
for an Excellent Online Course
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Distance Education Findings

• Give (ongoing) feedback/encouragement
• Monitoring progress
• Assignments applicable to real world problem
• Provide time between assignments to reflect
• Encourage discussion to bring about more higher
  order thinking/critical thinking
• Providing more practice problems
  (examples/illus- trations of what you are trying
  to communicate)
• Providing quick turnaround of grades/fast
  feedback

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Major Themes of Successful Distance Education
Participants
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Survival Strategies of African-American Woman

• Create Orientation Programs
• Develop Mentorship Programs
• Assign Life and Living Advisors
• Create an Each-One-Teach-One Program
• Design Support Groups
• Recruit African-American Administrators, Faculty,
  Staff and Students

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Why is this Important?

• Lifelong learning
• An essential job skill
• SCANS Workforce 2020
• Job retraining retooling
• Access equity
• What type of society do we want to live in?

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Response to Project 2000 (1997)

• You've done a great job, but (the divide is) even
  worse than you've said. "You have no idea how bad
  it is, thank God someone has begun to document
  the extent of the digital divide, now we have
  some hard numbers from which to move forward."

• You really need to know I work with inter-city
  children or I work in a school district, or I'm
  in the south and I'm finding in fact it's worse
  than you've even noted."

Racist comments You are part of a Liberal
left-wing plot to raise taxes just to help
African-Americans in this country. How could
you spend any time doing research in something
that is completely unimportant and of no
interest, and is not anything we need to be
spending any sort of money on." "Who cares, if
African-Americans have access to the Internet."
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Digital Divide

• J. R. Licklider, Father of the ARPANET wrote
• For the society, the impact will be good or bad
  depending mainly on the question Will "to be on
  line" be a privilege or a right? If only a
  favored segment of the population gets a chance
  to enjoy the advantage of "intelligence
  amplification", the network may exaggerate the
  discontinuity in the spectrum of intellectual
  opportunity. (Digital Systems Research Center, p.
  40)

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• Donna Hoffman is an Associate Professor of
  Marketing and Electronic Commerce at Vanderbilt
  University, CoFounder

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• I am increasingly impatient with people who ask
  whether a student is 'college material.' We are
  not building a college with the student. The
  question we ought to ask is whether the college
  isstudent material. It is the student we are
  building, and it is the function of the college
  to facilitate that process. Edmund J.
  Gleazer, Jr. 1970

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Key Issues

• Staff development in-service training
• A collaborative environment
• Methods of assessment
• Funding resources
• Campus technology infrastructure
• Incentives model programs
• Articulation matriculation

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Thank you for your attention!

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