The Multimedia Classroom

1976 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-177
Author(s):  
Stuart McRae
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Student Teacher ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Different Types ◽  
First Generation College

We need an alternative model to education that will turn students on to learning. Such a model must recognize the ability each student brings to the learning experience. At the Learning Center for Anthropology at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida, a smorgasbord of experiences using different types of media was substituted for the traditional academic menu. Early studies show several definite trends for the multimedia classroom: increased student-teacher contact; increased performance by students who are first generation college participants; decreased course costs per student-hour; and greater individualization of instruction.

More Than One Way to Be First

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Janel E. Benson ◽  
Elizabeth M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
First Generation Students ◽  
Campus Engagement ◽  
Selective Colleges ◽  
Different Types ◽  
First Generation College ◽  
Academic Lives

Chapter 1 introduces the reader to existing research on first-generation college students and argues that institutions need to learn more about the heterogeneity among first generation students to better serve this population. The authors describe their three broad questions: First, what are the different ways that first-generation students organize their social, extracurricular, and academic lives at selective and highly selective colleges? Second, how do first generation students sort themselves and get sorted into these different types of campus lives? Third, how do these different patterns of campus engagement prepare first-generation students for their post-college lives? The authors then provide an overview of their arguments and explain how their concept of campus geographies provides a new and useful lens. Finally, they describe their methods and provide an overview of the chapters in the book.

First-Generation College Students: Predicting Stress and Career Outcome Expectation

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Wen W. Ma ◽  
Munyi Shea ◽  
Treah Caldwell ◽  
Login George ◽  
Tania Chowdhury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Outcome Expectation ◽  
First Generation College

scholarly journals Promoting the Quality of Life of Elderly during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6813
Author(s):  
Chia-Jung Lee ◽  
Yen Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Learning Center ◽  
Learning Centers ◽  
Technology Learning ◽  
The Impact

This study explored the technology learning model of the elderly in a senior learning center under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many senior learning centers were closed during the pandemic, and many of them adopted the mode of online education. However, problems such as decreased motivation and a lack of peer interaction still exist. To solve these problems, this study used the easy-to-implement calligraphy AR approach and E-book approach to conduct a quasi-experiment on the elderly of a calligraphy course offered by a senior learning center. The results show a higher learning motivation among the elderly who use calligraphy AR. The learning effectiveness and technology acceptance of the elderly in the E-book learning group were higher than those in the calligraphy AR group. The elderly mentioned that the E-book learning approach is more user-friendly. In general, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the suspension of classes in senior centers, education through the development of technology has stimulated the growth of education in advanced learning centers. Through this kind of scientific and technological learning method, it will bring a whole new experience to the elderly. It can improve the stress relief methods, mental health, and quality of life of the elderly during the COVID-19 emergency shutdown, and provide a novel calligraphy technique learning experience for the elderly. Therefore, we believe that the calligraphy AR learning approach and the calligraphy E-book learning approach are practical and may promote quality of life and mental health of the elderly during the emergency closures due to COVID-19, providing elderly attendees with a novel calligraphy technology learning experience.

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