Community colleges — institutions that serve disproportionate numbers of poor, working-class, first-generation, nontraditional, and minority students — are uniquely positioned to provide liberating educational experiences to a diverse spectrum of society. Cross (2000) aptly describes the current interest in cooperative and/or collaborative learning with a metaphor: “a swelling river of interest...

With the rise of Digital Campus 2.0, the construction of digital teaching environment based on multimedia technology, network technology and modern education technology, has gradually become the mainstream of domestic higher education. According to the educational features of colleges and universities, the digital teaching system accessible to spread over should be created in the base of summin...

Virtual enterprises can be characterized as cooperations of independent institutions, which contribute their core competencies towards a common goal and benefit from reduced hierarchical and organizational structures. Such cooperations are made possible by extensive use of modern communication and information technology. Up to now, the idea of virtual enterprises has been used in commercial env...

The self-reported experiences of 50,883 undergraduates at 123 institutions were analyzed using a multinomial hierarchical model to identify individual and institutional characteristics associated with varying levels of student engagement in educationally purposeful activities. Parental education and student academic preparation were positively associated with higher levels of engagement. White ...

Web-based distance learning has evolved to a point where those operating or contemplating such programs can profit from the experience of its early adopters and practitioners. This study uses as its basis the experiences of institutions—community colleges, large research universities, state/ regional systems, and elite private institutions—that have actively pursued Webbased distance-learning i...

This study examines the relationships between student characteristics, student use of computers and other information technologies (C&IT), the amount of effort they devote to other college activities, and self-reported gains in a range of desirable college outcomes. Based on an analysis of responses to the College Student Experiences Questionnaire from 18,344 undergraduates at 71 four-year coll...

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