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Starting a Learning Assistance Center

- Review by Jan Norton -

Conversations with CRLA members who have been there and done that !

Frank Christ, Rick Sheets, and Karen Smith (deceased), Editors
Preface by Mike O'Hear

This monograph, with twenty conversations covering different aspects of starting a learning assistance center is available through H&H Publishing. Areas covered include:

 

  • LAC definition
  • Professional development
  • LAC justification
  • Identification of significant individuals
  • Meeting expectations
  • special populations
  • Faculty roles in LAC's
  • Useful management tools
  • Technology
  • Program assessment
  • Student assessment
  • Program types
  • Choice of appropriate instructional resources
  • Staffing
  • Organizational structure
  • Design considerations
  • Image development
  • National standards

 

Contributing authors are:

 

Elaine Burns Gene Kerstiens (deceased) Sylvia Mioduski
Frank L. Christ Georgine Materniak Michael O'Hear
Gwyn Enright Martha Maxwell (deceased) Rick Sheets
David Gerkin Reed Mencke   Karen Smith (deceased)
    Frank Torres

 

The book ends with a series of thought-provoking scenarios that cover a range of decision areas facing Learning Assistance Center directors. ISBN 0-943202-72-8 ($23.95 + $11.50 Shipping)

 

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