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Timothy S. Faith; Donna Mandl; Jill Burke – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2021
Open educational resources (OERs) are an alternative textbook to publisher materials used by colleges and universities. OER materials have a cost advantage for students; many are published as free or cost-reduced textbooks for students. The authors developed and piloted an OER textbook for Business Law I in the Management program of the School of…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Business Administration Education, Open Educational Resources, Access to Education
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Yarnall, L.; Tennant, E.; Stites, R. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Spurred by a demand to prepare more American workers for middle-class jobs in high technology industries, funders are investing aggressively in large-scale partnerships between community college workforce educators and employers. Despite such investments, however, few broadly usable insights have been gleaned about effective partnership and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Partnerships in Education, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
Kimberly Tynes – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Postsecondary career and technical institutions are required to follow a set list of performance indicators in order to receive federal Carl Perkins funding (Perkins IV Accountability, 2009). Within those indicators includes measuring technical skills attainment, which the state of Mississippi chooses to utilize program-specific standardized…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Program Evaluation
Gullickson, Arlen, Ed.; Lawrenz, Frances, Ed.; Keiser, Nanette, Ed. – JAI Press, 2004
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program is a diverse and dynamic set of projects intent on improving the USA's technical workforce. This book uses the ATE work as a means to focus on key issues for federally funded projects and all community colleges facing the difficult challenges of staying current…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Instructional Materials, Advisory Committees, Technology Education