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Shoba Bandi-Rao
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Shoba Bandi-Rao
Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York
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Collaborating Online: A Case –Study of American and Indian Student Exchange
Shoba Bandi-Rao
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) p. 25
Teachers who have collaborated in traditional classrooms know the value of partnerships. E-Classrooms allow for collaborations in any part of the world. The need for students to interact, communicate, & negotiate with students like them in another...
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Using M Technology with ESL Learners in the Community College Setting
Shoba Bandi-Rao
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) p. 3653
A majority of students at community colleges hold jobs as they complete their education. Since study time is limited for working students, mobile learning can be useful in maximizing the practice of the English language outside the classroom, be it...
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Developing Academic and Cultural Literacy Skills Through Videos
Shoba Bandi-Rao
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) p. 587
When students’ understanding of literacy departs from the literacy expectations in the academia, their success is often jeopardized. Cultural literacy is described as “learning a discourse or culture” of a subject area. For instance, it is crucial...
Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Social & Cultural Issues, Instructional Design
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A Comparative Study of Synchronous Online and Face-to-Face Writing Tutorials
Shoba Bandi-Rao
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 85–90
Writing Centers at colleges provide valuable support service to students needing help with editing/revising academic papers. Recent increase in demand for writing tutorials has prompted the Opportunity Programs to develop an online writing tutorial...
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Using On-Line Writing Instruction to Bring College Students into Academic Community
Shoba Bandi-Rao; Jennifer Radtke
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) p. 36
We share our best practices in teaching writing to freshman college students in a joint project between New York University and Long Island University. In this effort, we have found that appropriating rather than resisting technological fluency...
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Developing MOOCs to Narrow the College Readiness Gap: Challenges and Recommendations for a Writing Course
Shoba Bandi-Rao; Christopher Devers
International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 14, No. 3 (July 2015) pp. 351–371
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have demonstrated the potential to deliver quality and cost effective course materials to large numbers of students. Approximately 60% of first-year students at community colleges are underprepared for college...
Topics: Instructional Materials
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Platform for Synchronous Online Writing Tutorials
Shoba Bandi-Rao; Peggy Davis; Alicia Holmes; Jennifer Radtke
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) p. 2474
Dialogue between the tutor and the tutee is the corner stone of a successful writing center. While designing an online writing tutorials, it is important that the site emulates the face-to-face tutorials as closely as possible. We present the...
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Keeping the Human Element at the Center College-Level Writing Online: Methods and Materials
Shoba Bandi-Rao; Jennifer Radtke; Alicia Holmes; Peggy Davis
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) p. 25
When teaching medium moves from the classroom to online, it is vital that our methods and materials also adapt to the new teaching medium. Human element is key for the success of any class--onsite or online. Human element is the interest that is...
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Managing an Educational Website: From Concept to Funding to Execution to Use
Peggy Davis; Alicia Holmes; Jennifer Radtke; Shoba Bandi Rao
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) p. 220
This paper will present ways for directors of information technology to successfully execute an educational website based on the experience of creating the global-elearning site, a project funded by the New York State Education Department. The...