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This NGLC-funded project uses a number of technical interventions and approaches to support at-risk student success. The “SUNY Blend” includes a blended program, student commons staffed by concierges, a focus on developing student self-regulated learning skills, and more.

The SUNY Blend project is about student success, persistence and completion in a powerful context – to address the issue of poverty in NYS’s disadvantaged youth population. How do we support persistence, success, and completion in our at-risk community college students so they can get a degree, a higher paying job and exit poverty?

The barriers and issues faced by our at-risk student populations are many. Many struggle with competing life priorities. They work or have children and may be single parents or have multiple jobs. They enter college needing developmental courses.

Their sense of self-efficacy in their ability to succeed is low. The costs of books are a financial burden. Many first generation college students may not know how to avail themselves of the support that is available. They may feel isolated and loose their sense of community for support in a college campus setting, which would be magnified in an online learning environment. This presentation will provide an overview of this project and share approaches and resources developed that can be adopted/adapted to support Blended Online Student Success.

About NGLC

Sharing with Friends: resources and interventions you can use to support student success

SUNY/SLN NGLC Project wiki: http://wiki.sln.suny.edu/x/UQOP
SLN Online Student Commons: http://nglc.sln.suny.edu /
Student success materials: http://bit.ly/nglcsuccess

Additional resources:

Educause 2012 Conference, Denver, Colorado, November 6-9, 2012
http://www.educause.edu/annual-conference/2012/supporting-course-transformation-scale

Shannon Ritter, Social Media Coordinator, Admissions and Recruitment, The Pennsylvania State University, asked me to participate in this panel. (#edu12 #E12_SEM11P or #edusocmedia)

I was in Detroit at the gate on my way to Denver and participated in the panel via Google+ hangout. I also prepared a video for the presentation.

This seminar will focus on common myths related to the use of social and digital media in higher education. Throughout the seminar, we will engage in dialogue with experts in specific areas of technology through the use of video, Skype, Google+, and twitter chats. During the seminar, you’ll be introduced to these experts and their different perspectives, expanding your professional network to include these resources going forward. Additionally, we’ll engage in discussion about your campus myths and work together to create a plan to move forward with the use of social and digital media to achieve your goals and objectives.

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