iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (11/7/2016)

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. iDevelop is being brought to you by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI).
  

20 Minute Online Professional Development: How Can I Make Online Group Projects More Effective?
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 7th is How Can I Make Online Group Projects More Effective? 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 Bulletin or the email version of iDevelop. 

More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at http://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/how-can-i-make-online-group-projects-more-effective-13842-1.html. The complete fall schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2016/08/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html. Looking for transcripts of past Monday Morning Mentor sessions? Please email ctli@northshore.edu with the session title and we can provide you with the transcript and supplementary materials.

Other Professional Development Opportunities

• Technology Across the Curriculum Grants. The Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) Committee invites all NSCC full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and professional teaching staff to submit applications to develop a TAC project in the spring of 2017 with implementation in the summer or fall of 2017. Fall application materials are now available and proposals are due by 11:59PM on Tuesday, November 15th. More information on the TAC Grants is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2016/10/technology-across-curriculum-grant.html.
   

Celebrate National Distance Learning Week (November 7-November 11)Throughout the week, various organizations will be offering free webinars around online learning and instructional technologies that support online teaching. 

• United States Distance Learning Association
  https://www.usdla.org/events/ndlw/ndlw-2016-webinars/
• Online Learning Consortium
  http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/join/national-distance-learning-week-2016/
• Quality Matters
  https://www.qualitymatters.org/professional-development/ndlw
   

Resources

• Designing Effective Team Projects in Online Courses
  http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/designing-effective-team-projects-in-online-courses/
• Strategies for Effective Group Work in the Online Class
  https://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/strategies-for-effective-group-work-in-the-online-class/
  Five Steps to Improving Online Group Work Assignments
  http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/five-steps-to-improving-online-group-work-assignments/
   

Share Teaching Resources or Professional Development Opportunities
If you have any teaching resources that you would like to share with other NSCC faculty or know of any other professional development opportunities that NSCC faculty might be interested in, please feel free to send them to ctli@northshore.edu and we will share them in the upcomimg issues of iDevelop.

We hope you enjoy this weekly eNewsletter and would love your input. Please let us know if you have any feedback on the format, content, and resources or if there is anything else you would like to see in the eNewsletter.

Thank you,
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation