Tuesday, November 25, 2014

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Profession​al Developmen​t eNewslette​r (11/24/201​4)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice.

20 Minute Online Professional Development: What Are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of November 24th is What Are Five Tips for Writing Effective Learning Outcomes?

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/what-are-five-tips-for-writing-effective-learning-outcomes-3187-1.html.

The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week.  For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the email version of iDevelop or the Bulletin notice.

Other Professional Development Opportunities
  • A message about an exciting professional development opportunity from Andrea DeFusco-Sullivan: "Calling all NSCC faculty (full and part time). Bonnie Orcutt from the Department of Higher Education has asked me to pass this information along to North Shore faculty. The AAC&U is looking for faculty members from selected colleges to assess the work collected by the current Multi-State Collaborative Pilot Assessment of Critical Thinking, Written Communication, and Quantitative Reasoning. No prior participation in pilots or other types of training is necessary. This would involve some significant commitments. First, the faculty person would need to commit to traveling to the AAC&U conference in Kansas City, Missouri from February 17-19th for training. Flights, accommodations, meals, and a stipend would be covered by the AAC&U. You would be joining your colleges from across the state and across the country in this training! The second part of the commitment involves the work of assessing the student artifacts; this would be done electronically, and could be done from home. Each faculty person will be asked to score about 135 artifacts, and would receive a stipend from the Gates Foundation. Right now, I'm just sending out feelers and asking who might be able to and interested in doing this. We can send two faculty members to the training, but I've been asked to submit four names in case a sudden life event prevents folks from going. Send an email to me if you're interested!"
Share your Teaching Strategies
Please send your teaching strategies or resources to itd@northshore.edu and we will share them in upcoming issues of iDevelop.
  • Creating a storyboard before sitting down to record a video for your classes is a great idea. Not only will it provide you with a road map of what you are going to say in the video and what will appear on the screen for students to see, it will also be a useful tool when it comes to ensuring that those videos are accessible for all your students. If you are interested in pursuing this further, please contact ITD at itd@northshore.edu. We are happy to assist you in developing your storyboard and creating your video.
Resources
iDevelop is being brought to you by Academic Technology and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.  If you have any professional development events, best practices, resources or tips to share with other faculty, please send them our way.  Also, we would love your input on this eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Academic Technology and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment


Wednesday, November 19, 2014

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Profession​al Developmen​t eNewslette​r (11/17/201​4)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice.

20 Minute Online Professional Development: What Is Storyboarding and How Can It Help You Flip Your Class?

The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of November 17th is What Is Storyboarding and How Can It Help You Flip Your Class?

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.magnapubs.com/catalog/what-is-storyboarding-and-how-can-it-help-me-flip-my-class/.

The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week.  For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the email version of iDevelop or the Bulletin notice.

Other Professional Development Opportunities

Are you on Danvers campus? Need a place to gather your thoughts, catch up on your work, talk about your work-in-progress, or rethink business as usual? Visit the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CTLA) in DB388...think of it as a day spa for your professional life! We are happy to serve you, and if our resources are insufficient for your needs, we can direct you to the experts on campus that will help you. We open most days at 7:30 AM and are open late Wednesday's during the fall semester.

Share your Teaching Strategies

Do you create your own videos to explain concepts to your students, provide feedback on assignments, or demonstrate steps in a process? What software programs or technology equipment are you using to create these? What tips, strategies, or best practices would you share with other faculty looking to create similar materials? Please send your teaching strategies or resources to itd@northshore.edu and we will share them in upcoming issues of iDevelop.

Resources
iDevelop is being brought to you by Academic Technology and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. If you have any professional development events, best practices, resources or tips to share with other faculty, please send them our way. Also, we would love your input on this eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Academic Technology and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Profession​al Developmen​t eNewslette​r (11/10/201​4)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice.

20 Minute Online Professional Development: How Can I Make My Course Content More Accessible?
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of November 10th is How Can I Make My Course Content More Accessible?

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.facultyfocus.com/20-minute-mentor/how-can-i-make-my-course-content-more-accessible/.

The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week.  For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the email version of iDevelop or the Bulletin notice.

Other Professional Development Opportunities
  1. Liberal Studies Lecture Series (LS)2: History Professor Larry Davis will present on "'Lost Generation' Found: Terror on the Battlefields of World War I, 1914-1918. One hundred years ago, Europe blew itself apart in what proved to be one of the most devastating wars in human history. Tour the battlefields of France and Belgium with Professor of History Dr. Lawrence Davis and witness the terrible cost of the war then and now.
    When: Thursday, November 13th from 11:00am-12:15pm in the Lynn Campus Gym (Also, teleconferenced in DS 119)
  2. One of the gold standards for assessment of Student Learning Outcomes--the Lumina Foundation Degree Qualification Profile--has just been refreshed and revised. A "Lumina DQP 2.0" is online, and is soliciting faculty feedback about the content of its newest draft. What a fantastic way to share professional feedback, and to see what's new in the world of academic competencies. Visit http://www.luminafoundation.org/dqp/ to learn more.
Share your Teaching Strategies
In what ways are you ensuring that your course materials are more accessible to students? How are you utilizing universal design for learning principles in your classes? What questions do you still have about making your course content more accessible? Please send your teaching strategies or questions to itd@northshore.edu and we will share/answer them in upcoming issues of iDevelop

Resources
iDevelop is being brought to you by Academic Technology and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.  If you have any professional development events, best practices, resources or tips to share with other faculty, please send them our way.  Also, we would love your input on this eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Academic Technology and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Monday, November 10, 2014

Blackboard Learn Implementation Update

Over the summer, Academic Technology (AT) and Information Systems (IS) kicked off the implementation of the latest version of Blackboard Learn and the migration away from ANGEL. The entire process will take approximately a year to complete and will occur in several phases.

During June and July, AT and IS worked on installing, setting up and customizing the Blackboard Learn environment; conducted internal training on Blackboard Learn to become familiar with the ins and outs of the system; tested and documented the course migration process; and prepared for the fall pilot of Blackboard Learn. In August, AT facilitated several professional development opportunities for faculty participating in the pilot to prepare them to teach with Blackboard Learn in September. This fall, 21 faculty are piloting Blackboard Learn in 29 course sections.

The next phase of the implementation will be to deliver all online and hybrid courses for the intersession and spring 2015 semesters in Blackboard Learn. Training for faculty and course migration is ongoing throughout the fall semester. Workshops and open labs will also be offered in January 2015. ANGEL will be operational during this time and all spring 2015 face-to-face courses will be delivered in ANGEL.  

For the summer 2015 semesters, all summer courses (online, hybrid, and face-to-face) will be delivered in Blackboard Learn. Training for faculty and course migration will occur during the spring 2015 semester. At this point, ANGEL will be taken offline and will not be used to deliver any courses.

For the fall 2015 semester, all fall courses (online, hybrid, and face-to-face) will be delivered in Blackboard Learn. Training for faculty and course migration will occur during the spring and summer semesters. ANGEL will be offline and will not be used to deliver any courses.

We will continue to update the campus community about the implementation through the Bulletin, email, Facebook, and this blog. More information about Blackboard Learn and the migration is available at ITD's Blackboard Learn Site.

Please feel free to contact us at itd@northshore.edu with any questions or concerns about the Blackboard Learn implementation.


Friday, November 7, 2014

Fall 2014 Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) Grant Applicatio​ns Due Tuesday, November 18th

Fall TAC grant application materials are now available and proposals are due by 11:59PM on Tuesday, November 18th.

There are two new integrating technology into the curriculum projects that we want to spotlight.

Open Educational Resources
NSCC faculty can apply for a TAC grant to help replace their textbook or course materials with Open Educational Resources. 

"Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution."  (Source: UNESCO. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/)

Faculty will be paired with a Librarian and Instructional Designer to find materials and resources relevant to the course that the instructor can use to replace or reduce the overall cost of course materials for students. To learn more about Open Educational Resources and see some of the resources available (including textbooks, lesson plans, videos, and other relevant course content), check out the NSCC LibGuide at http://libguides.northshore.edu/open.

Redesigning an Online Course
NSCC faculty who have been teaching an online course for several years may want to redesign their online course to incorporate new pedagogies and instructional technologies, especially as our new LMS, Blackboard Learn, offers more robust possibilities than did ANGEL. This TAC project will allow faculty to self-assess the design of their online courses and make substantive changes. Faculty will have the opportunity to work with an Instructional Designer to revitalize their online courses with the infusion of new instructional technologies and best practices around teaching and learning online.

Please contact Andrea Milligan or Lance Eaton at itd@northshore.edu for further information or questions about these TAC options.

More information about TAC grants and the application process is available here.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Profession​al Developmen​t eNewslette​r (11/3/2014​)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice.

20 Minute Online Professional Development: How Can I Enhance the Impact of Feedback in Online Classes?
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of November 3rd is How Can I Enhance the Impact of Feedback in Online Classes?

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.facultyfocus.com/20-minute-mentor/how-can-i-enhance-the-impact-of-feedback-in-online-classes/.

The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week.  For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the email version of iDevelop or the Bulletin notice.

Other Professional Development Opportunities
It’s that time of year! Want to make ACADEMIC ADVISING more meaningful and less stressful for you and your students? Betsy Mariere, the college’s fantastic Coordinator of Advising, will be visiting the CTLA to share her wisdom with our faculty. ALL faculty are invited — adjuncts, we know students ask you for counsel, too. Get timely advice from an expert! Refreshments will be ready at 2:00. Don’t be shy---you are always welcome to come as your schedule allows.

When: Thursday, November 6th in the CTLA (Danvers campus, DB 388)
Share your Teaching Strategies
In what ways do you seek feedback from your students in your courses? In what ways do you provide feedback back to students on participation in discussion forums, assignments, projects, or assessments? Are you using any instructional technology tools to aid you in providing feedback to your students? Please send your teaching strategies to itd@northshore.edu and we will share them in upcoming issues of iDevelop.

Resources
iDevelop is being brought to you by Academic Technology and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. If you have any professional development events, best practices, resources or tips to share with other faculty, please send them our way. Also, we would love your input on this eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Academic Technology and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment