eLearning Technology Presentations, Every Thursday - free, online

Open Office Hours and eLearning technology presentations, offered every Thursday at 1 PM, Pacific time. Educators and eLearning professionals from around the State of Washington and sometimes around the world come together online to share, learn and present. Any and all are welcome to attend.
Learn about these sessions and more on the Washington eLearning Community blog.

Free Public Speaking Course, Available Through the Open Course Library

May 22 CCCOER Webinar: Public Speaking with the Open Course LibraryMay 3, 2012

Please join us May 22nd, 1:00 pm Eastern for a webinar with the course designer and professor who developed the very popular Public Speaking course for the Open Course Library. Find out how the curriculum was designed using open educational resources to meet course standards for both a technical and community college and to enhance student engagement in the classroom. You may download this course and use it as-is in your classroom or may modify it to meet your unique college and student population needs.
Featured Speakers are:

Open Course Library WA

• Professor Phil Vendetti, Clover Park Technical College, WA
• Instructional Designer Ellen Bremen, Highline Community College, WA
• Students of Professor Vendetti

PARTICIPANT DETAILS
Go here to login to webinar and click Connect
You may use a headset to speak or dial-in:
(888) 886-3951
Enter your passcode: 391870
PARTICIPANT CONFERENCE FEATURE
*0 – Contact the operator for audio assistance
*6 – Mute/unmute your individual line
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Test Your Computer Readiness
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Phone: 760-744-1150 ext 1537 or 1554
Email: clientservices@cccconfer.org

Open - Executive Director Position, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Invitation to Apply

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The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director.

As chief administrator for the State Board, the Executive Director represents the Board and the community and technical college system to the state’s citizens, executive and legislative branches of government, higher education institutions, business and industry, and state and federal agencies.
Further information...

Online education could potentially push colleges up the value chain

The Campus Tsunami

The most important and paradoxical fact shaping the future of online learning is this: A brain is not a computer. We are not blank hard drives waiting to be filled with data. People learn from people they love and remember the things that arouse emotion. If you think about how learning actually happens, you can discern many different processes. There is absorbing information. There is reflecting upon information as you reread it and think about it. There is scrambling information as you test it in discussion or try to mesh it with contradictory information. … How are [colleges] going to blend online information with face-to-face discussion, tutoring, debate, coaching, writing and projects? How are they going to build the social capital that leads to vibrant learning communities? Online education could potentially push colleges up the value chain — away from information transmission and up to higher things.

The New York Times, April 29, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/opinion/brooks-the-campus-tsunami.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&adxnnl=1&emc=edit_th_20120504&adxnnlx=1336154432-GBlyLAdIMVo3lIw59J3z2A

The Association Summer Conference is Coming!

The ASSOCIATION was established on May 12,1982 by a group of college presidents, staff from the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, and the Northwest Program Development Center (now the Center for Learning Connections).  The ASSOCIATION continues to promote professional growth and development for Washington's community college administrators and the state community college system and strives to develop and promote leadership and managerial perspectives on issues relating to higher education.

 Happy Birthday to The ASSOCIATION! 

The ASSOCIATION Summer Conference will be a time to celebrate the 30 years of providing quality professional development to administrators and exempt community and technical college staff.

 July 19 & 20 at Clark College in Vancouver, WA

 Featuring:

• Craig Zablocki on humor in the workplace

• Shann Ferch  Professor of Leadership Studies, Chair, Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies, Gonzaga University, Editor, The International Journal of Servant Leadership to talk on Appreciative Inquiry and Servant Leadership.

• Lynell James, Senior Vice President for Human Resources, TIAA-CREF on your personal well being

Plus more exciting sessions to be announced, AND...

A special Awards and Anniversary celebration banquet at The Heathman Lodge on Thursday night!

BRING the family to enjoy Vancouver!

Special rates at The Heathman Lodge of $113 - ask for "The Association CTC"  rate - 1-888-475-3100

REGISTER NOW to be a part of this event:

http://www.regonline.com/summer2012associationconference

Registration fee of $260 (for member colleges) includes lunch and banquet on Thursday, breakfast and lunch on Friday, plus materials, including a workbook for Thursday's session.

Kati

Catherine (Kati) Hays
Executive Director, The Association

Columbia Basin College

www.theassociationctc.org

Empowering Faculty to Drive Completion Efforts

http://www.jff.org/publications/education/how-states-can-accelerate-community-coll/1419

Subject: Empowering Faculty to Drive Completion Efforts

 Hello,

 States wrestling with the challenge of increasing community college student completion rates recognize that a critical next step is building support among faculty for reform efforts. Empowering faculty to take a substantive role in informing policy decisions, while also supporting pedagogical and curricular changes in their classroom, has proven to be a successful strategy employed by several states.

 This JFF publication highlights three key ways that states can help institutions to deepen the engagement of adjunct and full-time faculty in high-priority, completion-focused reforms and marks the progress of 11 states toward following these steps:

 • Step 1: Nurturing Faculty Leadership in Policymaking: Enlist faculty on state-level committees and research projects charged with recommending policy and programmatic changes.

• Step 2: Nurturing Faculty Development in the Classroom: Expand the availability of professional development to prepare faculty for the need to teach differently.

• Step 3: Nurturing Faculty Capacity to Use Data: Help faculty make better use of data on student outcomes to inform classroom practices and state policies.

 We encourage you to share this publication with your colleagues, newsletter readers, and other networks.

You can download it from: http://www.jff.org/publications/education/how-states-can-accelerate-community-coll/1419  

Best,

Jayme

Jayme Rubenstein

Public Relations Specialist

 Jobs for the Future

617.728.4446 x152

jrubenstein@jff.org

WWW.JFF.ORG

Twitter: @JFFtweets

Flip the Classroom with TED-Ed

25 April 2012

Flip this lesson! A new way to teach with video from TED-Ed

Announcing a new way to use video to create customized lessons: the “Flip This Lesson” feature from TED-Ed, now in beta at ed.ted.com.

With this feature, educators can use, tweak, or completely redo any video lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on a TEDTalk or any video from YouTube. How? Just plug the video in and start writing questions, comments, even quizzes — then save the lesson as a private link and share with your students. The site allows you to see who’s completed the lessons and track individual progress. It’s still in beta, but we’re so excited about this feature we had to share.

Watch the short video to learn how it works:

“Flip This Lesson” is an open platform — you can create a lesson from any video, whether from the TED-Ed library, from more than 1,000 TEDTalks, or from any video on YouTube. Read Chris Anderson’s blog post about why we built TED-Ed as an open platform. Read the full press announcement here. And explore a sample lesson Chris made as a proof-of-concept, based on a great new TED-Ed talk.

Then — go forth and write lessons of your own!