Articles by Dr. Steve Eskow

 

World Community College:  Has Its Time Come?  Explores the key assumptions underlying a new online venture, The Pangaea Network:  technologies, distance education, local communities, developing nations, action research and international education.

World Community College: A 2020 Vision. The emergence of the global economy and culture requires that the community college becomes a world college as well as a community college:  a world community college.  The curricula and the services of the new community college will help the individuals, businesses, and agencies of the community link to counterparts and opportunities around the world.  To balance the pressures of globalism, the community college will become more communal, small, and intimate in its forms of teaching and learning.

World Community College. Outlines the services and key assumptions underlying a consortium of U.S. community colleges, agencies, and foundations to study, work, and serve with their counterparts around the world.

Toward Telecommunity College:  From Open Admissions to Open Learning. The campus of the future becomes a community where teachers and students come together to talk, to work and to learn.  Discussion and dialogue-talk will be the way learning is carried on.  The design of the college of the future has oral community at its center, and technology at its borders to disperse learning communities not grounded in time and place.

The New Community College and the Search for Community.  As the socioeconomies of our communities change, the community college needs a new organizing principle that recognizes these changes.  The new community college will tie its services to the associated group life that makes for vital community life.   Connecting the college to associations--ethnic, religious, economic, academic, cultural and social--could renew the educational function of community colleges.

Educational Benefits of Sending Students and Faculty Abroad.  Makes the case for internationalizing the curriculum and the services of the community college, and provides examples of community college initiatives in work, travel, and service abroad.

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