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Time: October 9, 2012
from 10am to 11am
Location: online Pacific TIme
zone
Organized By: Una Daly
Event Description:
Please join the Community College
Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) on Tuesday, October 9, 1:00
pm Eastern to hear about three different but successful faculty development
models for encouraging the use of open textbooks and open educational resources
(OER) to improve instructional outcomes at community colleges. Models focused
on finding, creating, and sharing OER for courses that are currently being
taught. Presenters include a dean of online at a large community college
district, a director of distance learning at a community college, and the OER
Project Director at a community college.
Dr. Andrea Henne, Dean of Online and
Distributed Learning at the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD).
Andrea will present on the faculty development program for awareness, use, and
creation of OER which is part of the SDCCD Online Faculty Training and
Certification Program. Faculty contribute to a wiki with quality web resources
in their subject areas and participate in a collaborative forum to share OER
that they found to enhance their curriculum and improve instructional
outcomes.
John Makevich, Director of Distance and Accelerated Learning at
College of the Canyons. John will present on the OER FIPSE grant where faculty
at his community college were encouraged to find and contribute open content
learning objects for generating OER play lists to improve instructional outcomes
and student engagement.
Quill West, OER Project Director at Tacoma Community
College. Quill, an experienced college librarian, will present on the OER
faculty development at Tacoma Community College with a current focus on the
English sequence. She will also report on related efforts at other Washington
community and technical colleges to create awareness and promote adoption of OER
among faculty and students.
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