Roanoke-Chowan Community College’s QEP

1. Roanoke-Chowan Community College’s QEP

2. SACS’ Expectations • Institution identifies barriers to student learning. • Focus on learning outcomes or learning environment. • Institution can initiate, implement, and complete QEP. • Broad-based involvement of constituencies in development/implementation. • Identifies goals/learning outcomes and plan to assess them.

3. What is Learning? The COC broadly defines it as “changes in • knowledge, • skills, • behaviors, or • values.”

4. Learning Outcomes As a result of three initiatives, students will be able to do the following: • Apply course concepts in new and concrete situations to achieve course-level learning outcomes. • Cooperate with others in collaborative learning activities and group projects in distance learning and traditional classes. • Discover the connection between classroom and online learning activities and real-world experiences.

5. What is the Plan? Three QEP initiatives will be implemented in order to achieve the QEP goals and outcomes: • Active and Collaborative Learning Initiative • “Engage” students in the classroom with active and collaborative learning strategies • Student Development Services Initiative • Students will identify learning styles and apply them • Professional Development Initiative • Train faculty and staff to engage students

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