It Takes a Village to Raise an Information Technology Project: Suggestions on Collaboration from Our 10-Community-College Consortium

Autor/inn/en	Grandgenett, Neal; Thiele, Levi; Pensabene, Tom; McPeak, Brad
Titel	It Takes a Village to Raise an Information Technology Project: Suggestions on Collaboration from Our 10-Community-College Consortium
Quelle	In: Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 39 (2015) 7, S.647-658 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-8926
DOI	10.1080/10668926.2014.883555
Schlagwörter	Information Technology; Community Colleges; Computer Science Education; Career Academies; School Business Relationship; Models; Cooperation; Context Effect; Curriculum Development; Females; Student Recruitment; Articulation (Education); Graduation Rate; Goal Orientation; Expertise; Interpersonal Communication; Persistence; Iowa; Nebraska; North Dakota; South Dakota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informationstechnologie; Community college; Community College; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Berufsakademie; Analogiemodell; Co-operation; Kooperation; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Articulation; Artikulation (Ling); Artikulation; Aussprache; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Expert appraisal; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Ausdauer; South-Dakota
Abstract	This article describes the collaborative evolution of the Midwest Center for Information Technology (MCIT)--which is a consortium of 10 different community colleges across the four states of Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota--that was established to improve information technology (IT) education across the region. MCIT has been funded as a Regional Center by the National Science Foundation in three different grants from the Advanced Technological Education program (ATE) due to its successful collaborative model, alignment with research and best practices, focused regional interventions, and data driven decision-making. The fiscal agent for the consortium is unique. It is not one of the community colleges, but rather it is the Applied Information Management Institute (AIM), a business driven nonprofit focused on IT improvement in the midwestern region. The MCIT model, thus, builds a close partnership with local IT businesses and the IT programs in the 10 participating community colleges. This article describes the MCIT model for collaboration, the joint activities undertaken by the 10 colleges and AIM and the results to date of these shared institutional efforts. This article also discusses challenges associated with such a large-scale collaborative effort, and it provides suggestions for collaborative practice for other community colleges seeking to work together in larger consortiums. (As Provided).
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