iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Profession​al Developmen​t eNewslette​r (12/1/201​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 Design Copyright Compliant Online Courses?
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 December 1st is How Can I Design Copyright Compliant Online Courses?

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. ALL INTERESTED NSCC FACULTY are warmly invited to attend a presentation by Lucy Bayard on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the CTLA (Danvers, DB 388) THIS THURSDAY, December 4th. Refreshments will be served starting at 2PM, and the presentation will begin at 2:30PM. Come meet with Lucy, a wise and warm campus innovator, and learn techniques about how to optimize the learning experience for ALL of your students, regardless of learning style or challenges.
2. All interested NSCC faculty are also welcome at the Saturday, December 6th Professional Development morning. You will learn about the latest news from Disability Services, and learn about NCBI. What an informative and transformative morning! Coffee and every treat you can think of served prior to the 9AM start; the morning wraps up at noon.
   
   Please contact Rebecca in the CTLA to RSVP to both or either event!

Share your Teaching Strategies
Do you have questions about using certain outside resources and materials in your courses?  Please send us your questions to itd@northshore.edu and we will do our best to answer them in the upcoming issues of iDevelop. 

Resources

• NSCC’s Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy
  http://library.northshore.edu/policies/pdf/copyrightNSCC.pdf
• Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Educators http://library.northshore.edu/policies/pdf/copyright_appendixA.pdf
• Fair Use and Copyright for Online Education
  http://uri.libguides.com/fairuse/copyright

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