{"id":2360,"date":"2022-09-29T11:43:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:43:04","slug":"great-questions-the-student-experience-and-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/blog\/2022\/09\/29\/great-questions-the-student-experience-and-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Questions: The Student Experience and Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACC\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/thegreatquestions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Great Questions Seminar progra<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/thegreatquestions\/\"><strong>m<\/strong><\/a> is changing expectations of community college classes and having a positive impact on not only student persistence but their entire careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HUMA 1301: Great Questions Seminar is the only college readiness course of its kind in the nation at a community college. Instead of lectures, the course features discussion-based learning focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/thegreatquestions\/core-texts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>transformative texts<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to ACC data, students who successfully complete the course have a 90 percent persistent rate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hear from six students who completed Great Questions at ACC in years past and reflect on the lasting impact of the course on their lives in the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Great Questions Student Experience and Impact\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R42Cym4VYdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACC\u2019s Great Questions Seminar program is changing expectations of community college classes and having a positive impact on not only student persistence but their entire careers. HUMA 1301: Great Questions Seminar is the only college readiness course of its kind in the nation at a community college. Instead of lectures, the course features discussion-based learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[32,49,101],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-your-colleagues-are-doing","tag-programs","tag-students","tag-video","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}