Strategies
for Success: Study Skills for Online Learners
Employee
Development Conference
Living
and Learning in a Changed World
October
14, 2002
San Antonio College ~ MCFA 214 10 - 11 A.M.
Student
Achievement in the Online Classroom and Beyond
Dr.
Carol A. Keller
Assistant
Professor
History
~ SAC
Technology does not
in itself cause anything -- what counts is how people use it.
Welcome to Strategies
for Success: Study Skills for Online Learners session web site.
The information on this page is intended for Internet faculty and students
interested in making online classroom study tools part of the taken for
granted first step for all online learners.
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The Alamo
Colleges District is currently a recognized leader in
online education offering approximately two hundred courses on the Internet
to over 5,000 students.
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ACCD Internet students
are located throughout the United States and internationally.
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All district colleges
participate in the Virtual College
of Texas (VCT) reaching an audience beyond the greater San Antonio
learning community.
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Providing support for
Internet students is an essential component of a quality program.
The Strategies
for Success: Study Skills for Online Learners project is the result
of an ACCD Faculty Instructional Innovation Grant for Winter/Spring 2001-2002
received to create and implement a study skills Website specifically designed
for online learners.The project brings the best current materials together,
as well as include new ones in one Website study skills guide that may
be used by all Internet faculty and Counseling Centers, and thus reach
the largest possible number of online students. Students frequently are
uninformed of what is required to achieve success in this new dynamic learning
environment.
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There are many fine
materials developed by individual Internet faculty and the ACCD member
colleges Distant Education and Counseling staffs to assist students in
their pursuit of success in the online learning environment.
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However, often such
materials are not only scattered, they frequently do not address specific
study techniques.
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Students need positive
encouragement and reinforcement. Although the Strategies
for Success: Study Skills Online (ACCD IIC Grant, 2000) Website
provides a good introduction to basic study skills, the site does not specifically
address the adaptations students must make in order to become successful
online learners.
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Understanding the necessary
adjustments needed to make the transition from a successful on-campus to
an online learner is a challenging prospect, not only for students, but
for faculty and counselors as well.
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Even successful online
learners comfortable with one course format delivery system may encounter
a different course management format that requires new learning.
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Evidence suggests that
if students can get past certain challenging areas and difficult periods,
they will develop competencies that insure success.
The guide is specifically
designed for online learners and links the best online materials currently
available on many different district WebPages in one Webpage.
Carol A.
Keller ~ teaches United
States History (Internet) and World
History at San Antonio College.
Page created by
Carol A. Keller, October 2002
for Employee
Development Conference
Please send any
questions or comments to Carol A. Keller email
ckeller@alamo.edu
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