California wildfires can not burn the spirit at MiraCosta College
Augusoft e-news

The following is an engaging example of the strength and courage of a community during last months fires affecting Southern California including Lumens community member, MiraCosta College.  Here is an excerpt from an email received on October 25 from Lynda Lee, Dean of Community Education, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, Calif.

"I can't begin to describe the events of the week, but thankfully things are beginning to improve.  The fires are at least partially contained...
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Community Colleges may be Losing their Edge in Educating Adults
The Chronicle

Too often, conversations and policy debates about higher education ignore a key group of students, the forgotten majority: adult, "non-traditional" learners.

Last year I joined 18 others — educators, policy experts, and business leaders — on Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling's National Commission on the Future of Higher Education. Despite our varied backgrounds, conversations focused on the traditional 18 to 22-year-old.. Read more >

How to Market Career and Technical Education: Student Ambassadors
Techniques

Miami Valley Career Technology Center uses a very influential group of people in its marketing efforts. Read more >

Cyndi Pardee, Association of Community and Continuing Education’s Community Education Person of the Year
ACCE

Cyndi Pardee is for many of us throughout the state “das wunderkind” of the Community Education world.  She exemplifies everything that one could wish for in a coworker, supervisor, employee, colleague and, for many of us, friend. Read more >

Scott (Augusoft Client) to Begin Leadership Terms with UCEA
Infocus

To Barbara Scott, UCEA represents more than just a resource that continuing educators can leverage to improve their day-to-day job skills. Read more >

Lifelong Learning - The Weapon of Choice
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Cem Erdem

Growing up in the '80s in a foreign, developing country, America represented hope for many people like me. It represented advancement, technology, better education and health care.
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Orange Coast College Sets Sail on Disney Yacht
The Chronicle
By Erin Strout

Time and tide wait for no man. There’s no need to remind college fund raisers of that – especially those at Orange Coast College’s School of Sailing and Seamanship. Read more >

Building a Collaborative Model of Lifelong Learning
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Rich Rexeisen

There is a growing awareness that the emerging knowledge economy is creating a new set of educational imperatives.
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Developing an Online Course Strategy
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Aaron Donsky

Often there are two competing concerns for any business: growth and
stability. This conflict has come to a head recently with the advent of the Internet. The Internet allows its users to quickly create and change their image. However, this can be a problem for lifelong learning programs that need to focus on their core competencies while expanding their horizons. Luckily, with the internet we can harness both this need for a singular focus and the competing desire to expand our horizons with the ease afforded by new technology. Aaron Donsky shows us how to do this in “Developing an Online Course Strategy.” In his article, he recommends that lifelong learning programs explore the possibilities of new online technologies by finding new ways of presenting the classes that have traditionally been a strong suit for the program. These new technologies can help reach new audiences and enliven the learning experiences for you existing customers.
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Planning for Change in Lifelong Learning
Augusoft Journal of Lifelong Learning
By Terry Newman

In the following article, Terry Newman describes the process her community education program went through while adjusting to a new software system. The author recounts her direct experience dealing with the LLMS (now Lumens) software system to illustrate the experience that many programs go through when they adopt new management tools. The author offers a three step “process of change” as an antidote to the frustrations of mismatched expectations that often come about when adjusting to a new set of management tools. Newman comes to the conclusion that embracing the process of change can lead to a better functioning lifelong learning program.
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