Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

College students --- Education, Higher

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Co-published with More first-generation students are attending college than ever before, and policy makers agree that increasing their participation in higher education is a matter of priority. Despite this, there is no agreed definition about the term, few institutions can quantify how many first-generation students are enrolled, or mistakenly conflate them with low-income students, and many important dimensions to the first-generation student experience remain poorly documented. Few institutions have in place a clear, well-articulated practice for assisting first-generation students to succeed. Given that first-generation students comprise over 40% of incoming freshmen, increasing their retention and graduation rates can dramatically increase an institution's overall retention and graduation rates, and enhance its image and desirability. It is clearly in every institution's self-interest to ensure its first-generation students succeed, to identify and count them, and understand how to support them. This book provides high-level administrators with a plan of action for deans to create the awareness necessary for meaningful long-term change, sets out a campus acclimation process, and provides guidelines for the necessary support structures.At the heart of the book are 14 first-person narratives - by first-generation students spanning freshman to graduate years - that help the reader get to grips with the variety of ethnic and economic categories to which they belong. The book concludes by defining 14 key issues that institutions need to address, and offers a course of action for addressing them. This book is intended for everyone who serves these students - faculty, academic advisors, counselors, student affairs professionals, admissions officers, and administrators - and offers a set of best practices for how two- and four-year institutions can improve the success of their first-generation student populations.An ACPA Publication

Academic Achievement --- College Students --- Education --- Academic achievement --- College students

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

E-Learning is a vast and complex research topic that poses many challenges in every aspect: educational and pedagogical strategies and techniques and the tools for achieving them; usability, accessibility and user interface design; knowledge sharing and collaborative environments; technologies, architectures, and protocols; user activity monitoring, assessment and evaluation; experiences, case studies and more. This book’s authors come from all over the world; their ideas, studies, findings and experiences are a valuable contribution to enriching our knowledge in the field of eLearning. The book is divided into three sections. The first covers architectures and environments for eLearning, while the second part presents research on user interaction and technologies for building usable eLearning environments, which are the basis for realizing educational and pedagogical aims, and the final last part illustrates applications, laboratories, and experiences.

College students --- Information technology: general issues

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

People are flocking to community colleges to train for jobs, upgrade their skills, or save money before transferring to a four-year school. This book provides helpful advice for making the most of the community college experience by explaining everything you need to know about community college certificate and degree options, financial aid, study skills, online courses, time management, career planning, campus resources, the transfer process, and much more.

College student orientation --- Community college students

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Education, Higher --- College students --- Educational change