Learning Resources

Abstract: This book describes the order of magnitude of change that will be necessary to compete in the knowledge economy. Included are descriptions of current and upcoming technological advances that directly effect educators and learners. Several short stories or vignettes are used to help the reader understand what “e-Knowledge” is and how it will directly effect their life. The book closes with 10 ways to achieve success in the emerging e-Knowledge future.

Abstract: Book Review: A Learning College for the 21st Century, by Terry O'Banion. American Association of Community College/Oryx Press, 1997. 250 pages. ISBN 1-57356-113-4

Abstract: Book Review: A License to Teach: Building a Profession for the 21st Century, by LInda Darling-Hammond, Arthur Wise, and Stephen Klien. Westview press, 1995. 225 pages. ISBN 0-8133-2531-5.

Abstract: A review of the monograph “Ensuring Effective Governance,” by William L. Deegan and James F. Gollattscheck (eds.), New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 49 (Volume 13, Number 1). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1985.

Abstract: There are good reasons—educational, economic, sociological—for educational institutions to coexist on the same site or even in the same building with governmental, residential, or commercial functions. At the same time there are roadblocks to such joint-occupancy arrangements, particularly for public institutions, in the laws governing the financing of public buildings and in bureaucratic inertia. This article is a profile of one institution—the new Inner Harbor campus of the Community College of Baltimore—that tried to share its facilities with commercial interests—and failed.