iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (3/8/2021)

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 8th is What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning? 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/product/program/practical-steps-implement-mastery-learning. The complete spring 2021 schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2020/12/20-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

• 2021 Teaching, Learning, and Student Development Conference. The 2021 Teaching, Learning, and Student Development Conference Committee will be hosted by Quinsigamond Community College on April 9, 2021. Tools for the New Normal: Innovations in Access, Equity, and Student Success is the theme of the 2021 event. The Keynote Speaker is Dr. Danette Howard, Senior Vice President & Chief Policy Office for the Lumina Foundation. Save the date.
• 2021 Northeast OER Summit. Registration as well as a call for proposals is now open for the 4th Annual Northeast OER Summit. The Summit is free and will take place Monday, May 24 – Wednesday, May 26, 2021 virtually through University of Massachusetts Amherst Conference Services. The deadline for presentation proposals is March 21, 2021 and more information can be found at https://neoer.umasscreate.net/conferences/2021-2/2021-call-for-proposals/. If you are interested in attending, you can register at https://umass.irisregistration.com/Site/OER.    

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• Equalizing Online Learning (Campus Compact Fusion Webinar). Rescheduled to Friday April 2, 2021 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST. "This session will focus on strategies for addressing the challenges in a remote teaching environment, including equity and accessibility issues; effective approaches for building community in an online setting and communicating expectations and strategies for student success." (webinar marketing materials)  Presented by: Selena Kohel - Cottey College. More information as well as registration link available at https://events.compact.org/fusion-webinars.

Interesting Articles and Resources

• APPlicable Ways to Close the Online Distance, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-student-engagement/applicable-ways-to-close-the-online-distance/ 
• Fixing the Broken Textbook Market, Third Edition (U.S. PIRG has recently released the findings of their latest student survey on college textbook affordability during COVID-19), https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/fixing-broken-textbook-market-third-edition 
• 2020 Open Education Conference (you can catch up on 100+ hours of recordings from 250+ sessions), https://openeducationconference.org/2020/program 
• The Move Towards Open Pedagogy: An Interview (the DHE OER Advisory Council would like to share with you an additional taped discussion around the topic of DEI, OER and Open Pedagogy. Two important members of the Advisory Council - Ceit De Vito of BHCC and Marilyn Billings of UMass Amherst - met earlier this week to discuss the topic.), https://bhcc.techsmithrelay.com/8Njg

Share Your Teaching Resources and 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 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