iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (2/17/2020)

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
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of February 17th is How Can Media Richness Theory and Social Presence Theory Improve My Instruction? 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 https://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/how-can-media-richness-and-social-presence-improve-instruction-15203-1.html. The complete spring 2020 schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2019/12/20-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

• Call for proposals! Massachusetts Community College Teaching, Learning & Student Development Conference (TLSD). This year’s conference theme is "Equity Through Innovation: Ensuring Success for All Students". The conference will be hosted by Roxbury Community College on Friday, April 3, 2020. The TLSD planning committee is now accepting presentation proposals at https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=0hNSGIfS20ygO0yVaRDAkMCwcamJJJ5Et5ICQkLTt_tUQk0wRkUxU1JOV1ZBWk1ERUUyODFDUFo3US4u. The proposal submission deadline is 11:59pm on Saturday, February 29, 2020.
       

Interesting Resources

• Media Richness and Communication in Online Education, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/media-richness-and-communication-in-online-education/ 
• What is the Value of Social Presence in Online Learning?, https://youtu.be/1-YafD8upsQ
• Social Presence and Interaction in the Online Classroom, https://ctl.byu.edu/tip/social-presence-and-interaction-online-classroom
• The Power of Social Presence for Learning, https://er.educause.edu/articles/2014/5/the-power-of-social-presence-for-learning
• Eight Ways to Increase Social Presence in Your Online Classes, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/eight-ways-to-increase-social-presence-in-your-online-classes/

Share Your Teaching Resources and Professional Development OpportunitiesIf 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 upcoming issues of iDevelop.

We hope you have enjoyed 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,
CTLI