Ohio Technology Initiative Supports UC Projects
Date: Oct. 23, 2002
By: Dawn Fuller
Phone: (513) 556-1823
Archive: General News
The University of Cincinnati was awarded $75,000 in grants from the Ohio Learning Network (OLN) to increase support for programs to help students succeed in college.
The OLN's Learning Communities project supports learning communities at 25 Ohio institutions, as they share successful teaching strategies as well as explore new ways to help students learn. After demonstrating success in meeting their goals, each of the three UC learning communities was awarded $25,000 in implementation grants this fall, amounting to the total of $75,000.
UC's three learning communities are:
Student Retention -- This UC learning community works to boost retention among first-year and transfer students. National research shows that 60 percent of the students who drop out of college make that decision the first year in school.
Virtual Resource Room -- UC's national distance learning program, the Early Childhood Learning Community, has created, with University Libraries, an online library for students who have limited resources at their local libraries. The user-friendly access to the resource room addresses the needs of nontraditional students.
Cooperative Education -- The UC Division of Professional Practice coordinates this learning community with UC colleges that require students to co-op. This community analyzes student learning, as well as works on an interactive Website for feedback between faculty and students doing their co-ops off campus.
UC faculty will also be working together to plan, host and assess a learning institute for five statewide teams, to be held in January. The proposal for the learning institute was awarded $75,000 last May.
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