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Community Learning Centers Network

May 2008

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What is a Community Learning Center (CLC)?

A CLC is a place where people have access to computers connected to Internet for educational purposes

Its main intention is involving people to the knowledge society through:

High quality continuous online educational programs

Digital libraries

Radio-chat sessions

Forums

With tutors that interact actively with students through educational platforms

Generating virtual learning networks

Benefits: Offering Hispanic community:

Continuous educational programs to promote the development of capabilities Opportunities to increase their educational level for getting better jobs and life conditions

Concept:

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Introduction

•The Community Learning Centers program was born in the year 2001 as an answer from Tecnológico de Monterrey to the issue of educational improvement needs in highly marginalized areas where educational access is very limited. These regions are usually where we find extreme poverty.

• Within these last 7 years, Tecnologico de Monterrey has been working on an educational alternative to help thousands of persons looking to improve their means of living.

“By 2015: Tecnológico de Monterrey steps forward in its commitment with Mexico: to take a more dynamic and

participative role in the task of generating well-being to the

communities”

Dr. Rafael Rangel S.

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A CLC is a online learning center where participants can have access to educational programs through computer technology; and where they can interact with e-tutors. These participants have

access to specialized courses that will allow them to surpass boundaries and integrate into

the knowledge society.

Concept

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Objectives:

• To support communities reducing poverty and marginalization rates with alternatives for social inclusion.

• To offer education, information and communication access alternatives.

• To promote the development of productive projects towards sustainable development for communities.

Objectives

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• Our main strategy for development is that the students acquire meaningful educational opportunities to improve their professional and personal life.

•The new skills that students will acquire, will allow them to create their own productive projects, with help of experts during this process.

•Our main goal is for students to have access to a better life standards and labor opportunities. As a result, it will be possible to earn sustainability for their communities and families.

Education

Productivity

Development Strategy

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Territorial scope

• Texas• Georgia• Florida• North

Carolina• Arizona• Illinois• New Jersey• Oregon• Indiana

1,966CCA

in Mexico

150 CCAin US

25Other

countriesCorte: Febrero 2006

• Ecuador• Dominican

Republic• Guatemala• Panamá• Colombia

2,141

Total amount of students:

240,488**April 2008

Source CCA Registration

System

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In order to have a good operational process, the

CLC operational model has four fundamental elements:

1. A physical space with computers with Internet

connection.

2. A facilitator, who is the CLC’s leader and guide.

3. The educational website and its courses.

4. Tutors from Tecnológico de Monterrey, who support

the students during their learning process.

Student

Educational Programs

FacilitatorFacilitator

Computer

Lab

Tutors

Representatives of social, private and public sectors

Educational Model

Operational model

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Any CLC must have at least 5 computers with Internet

connection, so students can have access to:

• Courses available in the CLC educational website • Information services, databases, e-libraries, links, others. • Communication services: chat and email.

Physical Space

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•The facilitator is the leader in the CLC. He or she has to lead the students during the course selection process, according to their interests and needs. The facilitator motivates the student to assist to the CLC, to learn, and improve themselves; As well, he or she supports the learning method using the computers and the academic material that can be found in the CLC website. •Tecnologico de Monterrey trains the facilitators from our partner institutions.

Facilitator

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In the CLC, the students are the center of their own learning process. Every time they access our courses from the CLC

website, they are actually interacting with resources and didactic materials.

Learning Environment

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The CLC educational website has several courses and study programs according to the student’s interest.

There are courses about:

• Using computers, Microsoft Office, among other programs.

•Developing teaching skills.

•Starting a business and planning a financial scheme.

•Understanding the importance of our own health prevention, as well as our family

There are also some complementary courses focused on kids, such as an e-lab and a library.

Educational Portal

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Educational Offer

Computer Technology

• Use of the computer

• Navigating through the Web• Computers Basic Skills • Creation and design of Web

pages• Use of the computer

components• Windows operative system and

its applications• How to use the computer?

Basic Education

• Our word• Let's begin to read and write• Math for beginners• How to write: using the magic of

the word• Grammar and its impact on

written communication• Components of a sentence• Basic mathematics

* All the courses are in Spanish. Soon there will be some others in English

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Educational OfferEducators

• Basic teaching abilities

• Techniques and models of quality in the classroom

• Courses planning and designing

• The teacher as an adviser

• Listening in the educative atmosphere

• Creative thinking

• Students development

• Techniques of group integration

• Learning to learn

• Learning assessment

• Educating for values

• The technology and the sense of means in education and learning

Public Officials

• Citizen Civic Watch Guide• Ethic and Transparency, Strategy • for a Good Local Government,• Integrity as a Strategy to be • Affordable• Fight Against Corruption, an • Integral Vision• Participative and open Government• Seminar on Higher Municipal • Management• Training Program for the Municipal • Start• E-Government• Government Finances

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Educational OfferFamily (Informative Texts)

• Parents guide• Family relationships• Why is family education important?• The importance of fatherhood • No body can be one same one but he is somebody in house.• Unmarried mother. How to get prepared for it?• Educating by example• Son's Education• Can the children respect?• How can we help children or students to improve their

behavior• Teenagers in flames• Adultery• How to raise champions • Depression • Where is my father?

• Couples• Married life relationships• Same family values• How to cultivate love?• Educating in human values• Not to relieve couple fights with children

• Thoughts• Thoughts about happiness• Television educates or doesn't educate?

Health Promoters

•Lets take care of our health•First aids•Woman, health and development•Health care exercises program •AIDS and other sexual diseases•Diabetes•Hypertension•Respiratory infections•Living with hemophilia•Taking care of children•The Mexican immigrants and the services

of health in the United States.

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Educational Offer

Communicators

• The good writing process

• Producer's guide. Manual for the good journalism

• BBC game rules

• Essay and analysis information

• English through the BBC

Non-Governmental Organizations

• Introduction to NGO’s: social,

cultural and ethical environment for

the NGO’S.

• Social Participation Strength

• Non- Governmental Organizations

• Techniques and Strategies for conservation

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Educational OfferHispanics Living in the US

LEGAL

• How can I get the consular registration?• INFOPASS guide

LABOR• Guide for training and security in the

construction

FINANCIER• Money transfer and management of

resources • My money in the bank• The future in your hands

EDUCATION • G E D preparation

Entrepreneurs

BASIC COURSE • Business Basic Skills• Administration Basic Skills• Elaboration of a businesses plan to obtain financing COURSES FOR SMALL BUSINESS PREINCUBATION PHASE• Legal aspects• Marketing• Accounting and finances• Development of a plan of businesses AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT• Advantage of the forest• Nutritional crops• Better plants with humus• Better harvests with humus

CATTLE DEVELOPMENT• Taken care of bovines and pigs,• Goats growth and products

LABOR DEVELOPMENT• Decalogue for development• Basic concepts of hygiene for job purposes• Basic concepts of security for job purposes• How to solve problems

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Traditional business is another development area supported by Community Learning Centers initiative. The educational process

that micro-entrepreneurs follow is by taking computing basic skills in order to start a business course divided into:

Pre-incubation phase Incubation phase Post-incubation phase

Productive ProjectsProductive Projects

1. Business idea2. Training3. Project Registering

Pre-incubation Incubation Post-incubation

Pre selection of the Pre selection of the projectproject

Established Established BusinessBusiness

Productive Projects

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Productive Projects

• This is the new portal for traditional entrepreneurs. Through this portal new traditional entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to take business

courses and find alternatives for financing their initiatives as well

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How could you help us with this project so it can continue supporting communities?

Donating equipment Donating contents for coursesdesigning and updating

Adopting a CLC paying the membership fee

Offering assistance in the CLC Opening a CLC as a member of this network

How to collaborate with the project

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If you’re interested to open a CLC in your community, you must cover the following requirements:

Administrative Requirements

Human Resources Financial and material resources

• Sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Tecnológico de Monterrey, in order to open a CLC.

• Hire Internet service for the CLC.

• A facilitator must be hired in each CLC that the partner institution decides to open.

•The partner institution might have some volunteers so they can give “traditional” classes in the CLC (optional)

Material resources:• 5 computers per CLC as a minimum• 1 printer• Ink and paper for printing• Enough furniture for computers and printer (s). •Chairs•Projector (optional)Financial resources:

• Annual Membership fee of USD $1,500•Facilitator’s salary

How to establish a CLC

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Follow these steps for establishing and starting up a CLC:

1) Make sure you have the location, the equipment, the Internet connection and the facilitator .

2) Sign the Memorandum of Understanding with Tecnologico de Monterrey and pay the annual fee.

3) Take the training course for academic and operational purposes.

First Steps

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Once you are a member of the CLC Educational Network, you will have the next benefits:

• Free access to a learning community with self-learning courses, and with courses with official recognition from Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Direct contact with the new information technologies.

• Means for skill development through training and continuous updating.

Benefits

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CLC Educational Initiative in the

United States of AmericaCommunity Learning Centers

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Hispanic population

We, The American Hispanics - Article published by the US Bureau of the Census.Download PDF [15k].

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Geographical distribution

TOTAL: 150

* Data registered until January 2008

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Graduate Students from online tutoring courses

GraduateSTATES

4145 TOTAL

39Wisconsin

38Utah

3045Texas

26Oregon

74North Carolina

61New York

38Indiana

341Illinois

25Florida

458Arizona

Note: Neither Virginia nor New Jersey have graduate students up to day

* Data registered until Nov. 2007

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Website and contacts

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Contact information:

Laura Ruiz laruiz@itesm.mx

Katherina Gallardo kgallar@itesm.mx

Laura Pedraza laupedraza@itesm.mx

Phone: (52-81) 8358-2000 ext. 6546

If you would like more information, please read about our program at:www.cca.org.mx/dds/comunidad