This presentation will discuss community-based organizations and education

1. THE FUTURE OF
COMMUNITY-BASED
PROGRAMS AND
EDUCATION
Alicia McGee
AET 508
Andrea Adins
November 9, 2014

2. Technology
• Technological advancements are rapid and plentiful. These
advancements have changed the way that we live our everyday
lives; from banking, watching television, and communicating with
each other.

3. Technology
• Our lives revolve around technology. A broken smartphone can
hinder the daily business operations of an entrepreneur; a
technological glitch can shut down a corporation. For these
reasons, technology should be one of the key considerations for the
anticipated changes of community-based services and education.

4. Community-Based Programs
• Google is a major search engine. It is usually the first stop by many
people on the road to research. “Google Scholar is a free service
that provides a simple way to search for scholarly works and to
connect patrons with the resources libraries provide” (Wang, 2012).

5. Community-Based Programs
• Being able to type in a term, and to immediately get results helps
to locate information and resources easily and effectively. Both
community-based programs and educational institutions have
made earnest attempts to maintain technological relevance.
Libraries, community centers, and senior centers are all
community-based programs that have made technological
advancements. Most libraries have catalogs that are searchable
online. This allows patrons to search databases remotely, which
offers a certain level of efficiency.

6. Education
• Educational institutions have also
had to make changes to keep up
with technology. “Traditional”
educational systems have
evolved. Students are able to
access classes, course materials,
and interact with other learners
remotely.

7. Education
• Platforms like BlackBoard and Adobe Connect allow virtual
learning to take place. Curricula have had to be enhanced to
accommodate virtual learning. An article says of distance
learning, “That requires a willingness to rethink the traditional
classroom setting and a willingness to recreate the classroom
curriculum” (Kinnaman, 1995).

8. Funding
• Funding community-based
programs and
educational institutions
have come from a mixed
bag. Private, federal,
state and other local
funding sources should
continued to be used
going forward.

9. Funding
• This will allow programs the freedom to do what needs to be
done for the populations that they serve. Relying too heavily on
one particular source of funding can have a negative affect.
“According to an April 2011 Community College Week article, the
California Community Colleges system could be forced to enroll
400,000 fewer students and cut thousands of classes because of
the state budget impasse and funding shortages anticipated in
coming years” (Flynn, 2013).

10. References
• Flynn, W. J. (2013). COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUNDING. The Catalyst,
41(1), 11-13. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1081413462?accountid=458
• Kinnaman, D.E. (1995, January). The future of distance education.
Technology and Learning, 15(4), 58.
• Wang, Ya,Howard, Pamela. (2012). Google scholar usage: An
academic library's experience. Journal of Web Librarianship, 6(2), 94.