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Developmental Education
available continues to grow, expanding our opportunities to
engage our students and enhance learning for all of us. These
tools are all part of the social networking that our students use
and know, so these tools allow us to meet the students on their
own turf. Perhaps you already have your own favorite tools to
share those, or you would like to see a workshop on a particu- By: Kevin M. David, Ph.D., Director of Planning and Institutional Research and Margaret E. Lee, Th.D., Dean of Developmental Education
lar facet of the Web 2.0 tools. We can easily meet those requests!
and Student Success:
TCC and Complete College America
*URLs for the tools listed:
How effective is developmental education in helping under-
JogtheWeb: www.jogtheweb.com,
InstaGrok: www.instagrok.com, prepared college students earn a certificate or degree? This question
Themeefy: www.themeefy.com,
Linoit: http://en.linoit.com,
Wordle: www.wordle.net,
Glogster: www.glogster.com
WAC!WAC!
Writing Across the College/
Writing Across The Curriculum
At Southeast Campus
http://www.tulsacc.edu/about-tcc/celt/teaching-andlearning/wacwac
is receiving close scrutiny at TCC and throughout the nation. Complete College America (CCA) has recently published two reports that
sound a warning for all who are concerned about higher education.
CCA has declared that remediation is “higher education’s bridge to
nowhere.” They identify four “dropout exit ramps” in higher education: “too many students start in remediation, remediation doesn’t
work, too few complete gateway courses, and too few graduate.” (CCA, Remediation: Higher Education’s Bridge to Nowhere).
The Office of Developmental
Education and the Office of
Planning and Institutional Research
(P&IR) recently W