iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (3/2/2020)

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 March 2nd is How Can Change Management Principles Help New Educational Programs Succeed? 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-change-management-principles-help-new-educational-programs-succeed-15252-1.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 - Happy Open Education Week!
All week, during Open Education Week, there will be a variety of webinars offered to learn more about open educational resources. A full calendar of events for Open Education Week is available at https://www.openeducationweek.org/. 

To celebrate Open Education Week, CCCOER will host three webinars. For more detailed descriptions and speaker information, please visit https://www.cccoer.org/webinar/march-2-6-open-education-week-2020-oeweek-webinars/. 

• Beginning to Open Up: Ideas for Colleges Early in their OER Journey on Tuesday, March 3rd at 3:00pm EST. "When starting out using OER at your college/institution, it can seem like everyone else is much further along with us OER, and there aren’t any resources for those just starting out. Join us to hear from a panel of educators from smaller colleges and colleges that are new to OER as they discuss how they got started, recent accomplishments, things they would do over, what they wish they knew when starting out, and future plans." Registration URL: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpUrd-uhrTkuO9xAMJbL6Qw4jSRjEHMXtA 
• Regional Leadership in Open Education (RLOE) on Wednesday, March 4th at 3:00pm EST. "Launched by CCCOER in fall 2019, the Regional Leadership for Open Education (RLOE) initiative was inspired by the need for leaders to work together and share solutions for issues impacting OER adoption at diverse, multi-institution systems. Many open education leaders face similar issues of advocacy and implementation beyond their home institution and wish for the opportunity to craft common solutions and eliminate duplication of efforts. Leaders from colleges, universities, library consortia, and government agencies were invited to participate in four workgroups to discuss and build solutions. Each workgroup has developed a focus project for pursuing in 2020 and will share early efforts and invite community feedback." Registration URL: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uJMrf-GsqTwjBBnljuk_EBeSsikzoyVsHw  
• Students and OER Advocacy on Thursday, March 5th at 3:00pm EST. 
  "Open Education Resources (OER) remove cost barriers and provide a better learning experience for students who are unable to afford the required commercial textbooks. Student OER advocates directly understand these benefits and can effectively articulate them to their peers as well as to faculty, administrators, and policymakers. Come and meet two Student OER Advocates who have also lead the development of an OER Toolkit for students throughout California higher education systems to share guidelines and best practices for advocating for OER adoption on their own campuses. We’ll also hear from the Director of Affordable Textbooks at US Pirgs on concrete next steps for students to take action." Registration URL: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/v5EqdOGrrzMjlpApcZItOy2hW1CHHAL3ig

Also, the State University of New York (SUNY) will host and showcase several presentations from our SUNY campuses in celebration of Open Education Week, March 2-6, 2020. Presentations are focused around open pedagogy, open educational resources, open textbooks, and open access. Details can be found here: http://bit.ly/SUNYOEW2020.

      
Interesting Resources

• NSCC Open Educational Resources, https://library.northshore.edu/friendly.php?s=open 
• Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images + Data into the Public Domain CC0, https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/27/smithsonian-releases-2-8-million-images-data-into-the-public-domain-using-cc0/
• OER at Scale: The Academic and Economic Outcomes of Achieving  the Dream’s OER Degree, https://www.achievingthedream.org/resource/17993/oer-at-scale-the-academic-and-economic-outcomes-of-achieving-the-dream-s-oer-degree-initiative

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