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• Access and Success in Web Courses at an Urban Multicultural Community College: The Student's Perspective
  This study explores the question of access in Arizona's postsecondary electronic education environment by looking at an urban community college with a highly diverse student population. Phoenix College (PC) is a community college in the Maricopa Community College District in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Access and Success in Web Courses at an Urban Multicultural Community College: The Student's Perspective
  This study explores the question of access in Arizona's postsecondary electronic education environment by looking at an urban community college with a highly diverse student population. Phoenix College (PC) is a community college in the Maricopa Community College District in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Agile Learning, New Media, and Technological Infusement at a New University: Serving Underrepresented Students. JSRI Occasional Paper
  The California State University system faces an increase of 100,000 students by 2010, the majority of whom will be Latino. Fundamental restructuring is necessary to accommodate this change, and the new California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) may provide a model.
• Citizenship, Diversity and Distance Learning: Videoconferencing in Connecticut
  Profiles a videoconference that brought together two seventh-grade classes in Connecticut. Over several days, white, middle-class, rural students discussed topical issues with urban black students.
• Coming Together: Preparing for Rural Special Education in the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings of the American Council on Rural Special Education (18th, Charleston, South Carolina, March 25-28, 1998)
  This proceedings contains 64 papers on rural special education. Papers present promising practices in rural special education, discussions of theory and research, research findings, program descriptions, and topics of current concern.
• Connections: Adult Learners and the Evolving University. Proceedings of the Annual Alliance/ACE Conference (19th, Saratoga Springs, New York, October 21-23, 1999).
  This collection of 38 papers has as its focus adult learners, and covers a wide range of topics on electronic peer networks, workplace training (in Australia), health professional accreditation, students with disabilities, and many others.
• Crisis in the Heartland: Addressing Unexpected Challenges in Rural Education
  Recent increases in cultural and linguistic diversity in Kansas have raised three challenges for educators, especially rural educators: geographic isolation, capacity building, and professional development. Describes innovative, nontraditional programs developed by Kansas State University to help educators meet these challenges, including distance education, collaborative site-specific adaptations of curriculum and instruction, and cross-cultural sensitivity training.
• Cultural Competency Training at a Distance: Challenges and Strategies
  Televised instruction and a movement to integrate cultural-competency training into counselor education represent the convergence of two major forces in counselor training today. The challenges associated with providing cultural-competency training via interactive television are outlined.
• Cultural Connections: Promoting Self-Esteem, Achievement, and Multicultural Understanding through Distance Learning
  This case study focused on the effects of collaborative activities between two teachers and their students. The authors explored the effectiveness of distance learning for adolescents in promoting self-esteem, achievement, and multicultural understanding.
• Cyber Diversity
  A Central Michigan University course in African-American literature, attended mostly by whites, is joined by black students and their professor at the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, for lectures and discussions by teleconference. Technology is the tool used for increasing diversity in the teaching/learning experience.
• Dealing with Disengagement through Diversity: An Electronic Curriculum for Cultural Relevance
  Examines specific features of the online Blackboard distance learning platform that enhance the advantages of alternative teacher certification programs, especially with regard to helping teachers develop a culturally relevant pedagogy.
• Fostering Community through the Use of Technology in a Distributed Learning Environment
  With the technology revolution, the importance of creating a sense of community in the learning environment is as significant as ever. This article shares the lessons learned in developing and teaching a multicultural counseling course via distance and distributed education.
• Globalizing Instructional Materials: Guidelines for Higher Education
  Discusses issues in training students to be culturally literate and the process for creating, designing, and developing cross-cultural (globalized) instructional materials. Defines terms associated with globalizing instructional materials and the process of adapting these materials to other cultures.
• Honoring Our Roots and Branches...Our History and Future. Proceedings of the Annual Midwest Research to Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education (19th, Madison, Wisconsin, September 27-29, 2000)
  These proceedings consist of 44 presentations in these categories: distance education and evaluation; community issues and research; multicultural issues and research; teaching and learning; research methods; and organizational development.
• Leadership Abstracts, 1996
  The abstracts in this series provide two-page discussions of issues related to leadership, administration, professional development, technology, and education in community colleges.
• Promoting Multicultural Understanding and Positive Self-Concept through a Distance Learning Community: Cultural Connections
  Explores the effectiveness of distance learning and multimedia technologies in facilitating an expanded learning community between geographically separated elementary and secondary schools with Hispanic students in Texas. Highlights include the Cultural Connections program; teacher collaboration; curricular activities; identity-forming multicultural activities; interactive videoconferencing; multicultural understanding; and students' positive self-concept.
• The Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings (7th, San Diego, California, October 25-27, 1995)
  This conference proceedings of off-campus library services includes 37 papers covering the on topics: Academic Libraries, Distance Education Electronic Libraries, Library Services, Outreach Programs.
• The Preparation of Educational Interpreters for Rural Education Settings
  A consortium of four Alabama universities was formed to prepare educational interpreters to serve deaf and hard-of-hearing students in inclusive rural settings and to work in multicultural environments. The proposed Specialty in Educational Interpreting program would offer some courses via the interactive intercampus television system.
• Using an Interactive Website To Educate about Cultural Diversity and Societal Oppression
  Describes use of an interactive Web forum to provide a safe vehicle for social work students to dialogue concerning the dynamics of social oppression and cultural diversity. Analyzes usage patterns of the website and data from student evaluations.
• Visions and Revisions. Annual Alliance/ACE Conference (16th, St. Pete Beach, Florida, October 3-5, 1996).
  These proceedings consist of 20 presentations made during 5 sessions at a conference dealing with alternative degree programs for adults. The papers are on subjects like Adult Education,Adult Learning,Cultural Pluralism,Distance Education,Higher Education,Racial Discrimination and Teaching Methods.