Higher Education

A Room of Their Own: Fostering a Community of Writers with Student Editable "Writing Spaces"

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Course
Local Identifier/Name: 
ENG 111 Introduction to College Writing
Delivery Modality: 
Blended/Web-Supplemented
Audience/Level: 
Undergraduate (College/University)
Participants: 
10 to 30
Delivery Length: 
16 weeks (currently in progress for Spring 2012)

Of Chadron State College's Entering Freshmen, 67% qualify for first generation and/or low income support services and 40% are deficient in core subject areas of reading, writing, and mathematics based on matriculating ACT placement scores.  Although this generation is often referred to as “digital natives” who have largely not known life without digital media and technology, in truth, this population is not only academically unprepared, but also technologically unprepared for the rigors of post secondary General Studies.  This combination of academic and technological unpreparedne

Chadron State College

 

 

1000 Main Street
Chadron
NE
69337
United States
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Sakai
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Supporting/Developing
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CLE
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Sakai
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Piloting
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OAE
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PeopleSoft
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8.0

Virginia Tech

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Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named

3200 Torgersen Hall
Blacksburg
VA
24061-0292
United States
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Sakai
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Migrating
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2.5.4
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Blackboard
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Migrating
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8.0.422.0
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OSP
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Production
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2.5.4
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None
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Banner
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Production
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8
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None

Lancaster University

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Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a Britishuniversity in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The University has an annual income of £149 million,2,250 staff and 17,415 students. In the last Research Assessment Exercise Lancaster was named the 7th best research institution in the United Kingdom. Along with the universities of Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York, Lancaster forms the N8 Group of research universities. Lancaster was ranked 10th of 113 British universities in the 2008 Good University Guide.

Lancaster University
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4YW
United Kingdom
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Home Grown
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Production
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LUVLE
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Sakai
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Production
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2.5
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Other
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None
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Home Grown
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Production
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