20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Spring 2026 Schedule

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) offers faculty a professional development series from Magna Publications, called the 20 Minute Mentor. The goal of the 20 Minute Mentor series is to offer faculty practical professional development opportunities in twenty minute snippets that can be accessed from anywhere and at any time during the given week. Session topics cover the areas of student engagement, teaching and learning, teaching online, assessment and learning goals, and classroom management.

Information on how to access the 20 Minute Mentor sessions is available each week in the Bulletin and the iDevelop e-newsletter.

New video presentations (with supplementary materials) go live at 10:00am each Monday morning and are only accessible through Sunday. 

The following sessions are on the schedule for spring 2026. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below. 

• January 19, 2026 How Can I Introduce Creativity to My Classes to Build Connection with Students?
• January 26, 2026 Bite-Sized Best Practices for Incorporating Generative AI into Any Course
• February 2, 2026 What Are Active Strategies for Structuring a Synchronous Class?
• February 9, 2026 Developing Antiracist Competencies in Teaching and Curriculum Design 
• February 16, 2026 How Can Gamification Transform the Flipped Classroom? 
• February 23, 2026 What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students? 
• Mar. 2, 2026 How to Embrace the Emotional Labor of Teaching 
• March 9, 2026 How Can I Truly Enjoy Teaching Asynchronous Online Classes? 
• March 16, 2026 How Can Embedding Career Competencies in the Classroom Enhance Student Success? 
• March 23, 2026 Detect, Document, Decide: Responding to AI Misuse with Confidence and Care
• March 30, 2026 How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
• April 6, 2026 Game On! Collaborative Learning Techniques for the Modern Classroom 
• April 13, 2026 How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
• April 20, 2026 Bridging Classroom Knowledge and Career Readiness for Workforce Success
• April 27, 2026 How Can I Move From Supporting to Empowering Trans-spectrum Students? 
• May 4, 2026 How to Develop and Maintain a Scholarly Agenda

We would love to hear your feedback on the usefulness of these sessions. Please send your input to ctli@northshore.edu. 

20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Fall 2025 Schedule

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) offers faculty a professional development series from Magna Publications, called the 20 Minute Mentor. The goal of the 20 Minute Mentor series is to offer faculty practical professional development opportunities in twenty minute snippets that can be accessed from anywhere and at any time during the given week. Session topics cover the areas of student engagement, teaching and learning, teaching online, assessment and learning goals, and classroom management.

Information on how to access the 20 Minute Mentor sessions is available each week in the Bulletin and the iDevelop e-newsletter.

New video presentations (with supplementary materials) go live at 10:00am each Monday morning and are only accessible through Sunday. 

The following sessions are on the schedule for fall 2025. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below. 

• August 18 - Onboarding Meetings: Building Connection and Success from Day One
• August 25 - Strategies for Teaching Essential Employability Skills
• September 1 - How Can You Scaffold Assignments to Promote Student Engagement All Semester Long?
• September 8 - Threat or Opportunity? Reframing the DEI Debate
• September 15 - How Can I Use the Discussion Board to Stimulate Engagement and Build Confidence for First-Year Students?
• September 22 - How to Craft Assignments that Outsmart AI Tools?
• September 29 - How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?
• October 6 - What are Best Practices for Online Pedagogy?
• October 13 - Supporting First-Generation and Non-Traditional Students
• October 20 - How Can I Support Neurodivergent Colleagues?
• October 27 - How Can You Use Retrieval Practice to Make Learning More Effective?
• November 3 - How Can Handouts Become Your Secret Weapon for Student Engagement?
• November 10 - Reimagining Feedback and Assessment Through Learner-Centered and Growth-Oriented Practices
• November 17 - Can We Disagree and Still Belong? Navigating Classroom Conflict?
• November 24 - How Can I Adapt 5 Popular Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) to the Online Classroom?
• December 1 - What is Student Success? Re-Engaging the Value Proposition of Higher Education

We would love to hear your feedback on the usefulness of these sessions. Please send your input to ctli@northshore.edu. 

20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Fall 2022 Schedule

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) offers faculty a professional development series from Magna Publications, called the 20-Minute Mentor. The goal of the 20-Minute Mentor series is to offer faculty practical professional development opportunities in twenty minute snippets that can be accessed from anywhere and at any time during the given week. Session topics cover the areas of student engagement, teaching and learning, teaching online, assessment and learning goals, and classroom management.

Information on how to access the 20-Minute Mentor sessions is available each week in the Bulletin and the iDevelop e-newsletter.

New video presentations (with supplementary materials) go live at 10:00am each Monday morning and are only accessible through Sunday. 

The following sessions are on the schedule for fall 2022. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below. 

• August 22 - How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?
• August 29 - How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?
• September 5 - What Are the Benefits—and Challenges—of Hyflex Instruction?
• September 12 - How Can I Use Everyday Interactions to Instill a Growth Mindset in Students
• September 19 - What Are 5 Easy-to-use Technologies That Have a Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
• September 26 - How Can I Teach with Confidence in the Hyflex Classroom?
• October 3 - What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?
• October 10 - How Can I Help Online Students Develop Autonomy and Take More Responsibility for Their Learning? 
• October 17 - What is Ungrading and How can It Unleash Your Students Potential?
• October 24 - How Can I Create an Engaging, Student-Focused Syllabus?
• October 31 - How Can I Spark Conversation in the Classroom?
• November 7 - How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue? 
• November 14 - What Brain-Based Techniques Can I Use to Engage Students During Class?
• November 21 - How Can You Become More Intentional About Culturally Responsive Teaching? 
• November 28 - How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
• December 5 - What Are 3 Calendar Hacks for Faculty to Avoid Stress and Burnout?

We would love to hear your feedback on the usefulness of these sessions. Please send your input to ctli@northshore.edu. 

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (4/4/2022)

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 fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of April 4th is How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention? 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/how-can-i-use-microactivities-to-engage-students-and-improve-learning-and-retention/.  The complete spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2022/01/20-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

• Unity in Diversity Days (Merrimack College). "Unity in Diversity Days, a two-day program, is now in its fourth semester and is sponsored by the President’s Initiative on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). The program features a diverse group of scholars, artists and advocates, designed to broaden and deepen our understanding of systemic inequalities with a focus on current issues. Some of the topics we highlight this semester include diversity in education, restorative justice, the role of art in transforming communities, health disparities, and the future of gender inclusivity. Additionally, speakers will share knowledge and strategies, designed to enhance our awareness and ability to overcome inequities on campus and in the workplace by taking care of ourselves." NSCC faculty and staff are invited to attend any of the presentations during our Spring 2022 Unity in Diversity Days program, scheduled for Tuesday, April 5 and Wednesday, April 6. All sessions are free and open to the public but require pre-registration. More information is available at https://www.merrimack.edu/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/programs/unity-in-diversity-days/unity-in-diversity-spring-2022-event/.
• The Experiences of Women in The Soviet Union During World War II. Registration is open for our event on women's experiences in the Soviet Union during World War II, co-sponsored by North Shore Community College and Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. The webinar will be held Thursday, April 14th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. To pre-register, please visit our website, https://www.northshore.edu/events/soviet-women.html, and scroll down until you see the blue Register button. Click on that button to enter your information. If you have questions, please reach out to Kara Kaufman at kkaufman@northshore.edu or Lawrence Davis at ldavis@northshore.edu. 
• 2022 NSCC Visiting Writer Event. Visiting Writer and Professor Emeritus Carl Carlsen will read from his new book Brickyard Stories 2.0: A Lynn MA Neighborhood Before and After Urban Renewal, an oral history full of storytelling, poetry, prose, and photographs. This event will take place on Zoom on Tuesday, April 26 from 9:30 to 10:45 am and Wednesday, April 27 from 9:30 to 10:45 am. Please see https://www.northshore.edu/faculty-staff/bulletin/03-14-22.html#writer for more information and Zoom meeting links. 
• Digital Teaching Symposium 2022. Blackboard is sponsoring this free virtual event focusing on sharing best practices in digital teaching on Thursday, April 21. More information as well as the registration link is available at https://go.blackboard.com/digital-teaching-symposium.
• 2022 Northeast OER Summit. Registration is now open for the 5th Annual Northeast OER Summit. The Summit is virtual and will take place May 26 and May 27. Registration for the Summit is free until April 8th so register now if you are interested at https://umass.irisregistration.com/Site/OER. 
• REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit – Maximizing Success for Learners. “REMOTE is a free virtual event hosted by Arizona State University where frontline faculty and decision makers from global universities and colleges share highly relevant strategies and interventions for all learning modalities - classroom, blended/hybrid, and online. REMOTE helps to design and deliver the best possible experiences and outcomes for teachers and learners - from learner variability, adaptive learning, to effective use of tools and equitable use of digital learning.” (Summit description) The Summit will take place June 8 and June 9. More information and registration link available at https://www.theremotesummit.org/. For a preview of what REMOTE covers, last year’s sessions are available on ASU TEACH ONLINE at https://teachonline.asu.edu/remote-conference-2021/.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• Career and College Promise: Helping Students Be All They Can Be! (NISOD webinar) on Monday, April 4 from 2:00pm-3:00pm. “This webinar describes the Career and College Promise (CCP) Team and its impact on student success. By offering support before, during, and after enrollment, the CCP team holistically serves each student and develops a symbiotic relationship with local high schools. Nash Community College doubled the number of courses being taken by our CCP population from Spring 2020 to Spring 2021, and our statistics with student success remained stable. This webinar provides best practices for supporting students and partnering with high school and college personnel. Participants learn easy-to-implement strategies that increase enrollment and student retention.” (webinar description) The webinar is free to NISOD members. More information and the link to register is available at https://www.nisod.org/forms/webinar-series/register.php?id=453&code=57kL4QDy2xOcjbiqt61gCB4b909vy2FynMo4WovP.  
• Sustainable OER Course Design (CCCOER Webinar) on Wednesday, April 13 at 3:00 pm. “Building courses on OER is a great way to provide students with access to learning materials while providing for increased customizability on the part of the instructor. But how can courses be designed to facilitate future reuse and adaptation? This webinar will feature a variety of speakers offering their experienced-based perspectives on designing OER with sustainability in mind, including strategies for ongoing maintenance and content portability.” (webinar description) More information and registration link is available at https://www.cccoer.org/webinar/sustainable-oer-course-design/.  

Assessment Fellow Open Office Hours

This semester, the Faculty Assessment Fellows will be holding Monthly Open Office Hours to provide peer-to-peer assessment support, tips, and resources. The next session will be an opportunity to discuss and brainstorm Curriculum Mapping strategies with faculty colleagues from across the college! Join Assessment Fellow Luciano Sappia at this next session of open office hours! Drop in for a lunch time Zoom chat from 12:30 to 1:30 pm on Wednesday, April 13. Please use the following Zoom meeting link, https://northshore-edu.zoom.us/j/92185571848?pwd=MEFzQ1ZieWdqNGdveDJSSGcwNk9XZz09.

CTLI Coffee and Conversations Series

Over the spring semester, the CTLI will be hosting a series of informational sessions on a variety of teaching, learning, and assessment topics. The Coffee and Conversations sessions will be held virtually twice a month on Fridays from 9:30am to 10:30am. Please join us with your favorite cup of coffee or tea and we will bring the topics to hopefully spur plenty of conversations.

Our next session will take place on Friday, April 15th and the topic will be "Demystifying Curriculum Committee Forms and Writing Strong Student Learning Outcomes''. The session will be facilitated by Lori Azzara and is designed to work with faculty who want assistance in understanding how to successfully complete the various Curriculum Committee Forms.  Additionally, Lori will assist faculty with the development of SLOs for individual courses or programs. The session is designed to answer questions and provide detailed assistance to participants rather than simply providing information - in other words, it's "user friendly."

Please use the following Zoom meeting link for all Coffee and Conversations sessions:

https://northshore-edu.zoom.us/j/99574231620?pwd=bjgrVkIvRjRQUzZJcmtGeWRCWksyUT09

Future Coffee and Conversations sessions will be held on the following Fridays (listed below) so please save the dates in your calendar:

•  April 29
• May 6

Topics have been scheduled for a few of these sessions but we would love your feedback on some topics for the other sessions. Please share any ideas around what you might like to learn more about at https://forms.gle/yGifSTLdZmmyp75p7.

We hope to see you at one of the sessions!

Interesting Articles and Resources

• Authentic Assessment Strategies: Assessing Learning that Empowers Your Students (Faculty Focus Live podcast) “How do you know that student learning is actually happening? Usually through assessment, right? But how can you assess students without just a quiz or paper? How can you empower them and motivate them to learn, and want to learn, so that assessment becomes something that is both powerful for you as an instructor and to the student as a learner? In today’s episode, we’ll talk about authentic assignments and authentic assessment, specific active learning assessment strategies that you can use in your class, and how to use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to help mold your assessments.”, https://www.facultyfocus.com/faculty-focus-live-podcast/ 
• Using Courage, Compassion, and Connection to Combat Disconnection, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/using-courage-compassion-and-connection-to-combat-disconnection/ 
• Building a Social and Emotional Learning Community for Our Students, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/equality-inclusion-and-diversity/building-a-social-and-emotional-learning-community-for-our-students/
• How to Give Your Students Better Feedback With Technology: Advice Guide, https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-give-your-students-better-feedback-with-technology/

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  

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (5/10/2021)

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
This is the last of the sessions for the spring Monday Morning Mentor series (professional development in twenty minute snippets.) The topic for the week of May 10th is What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received? 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/what-is-the-best-leadership-advice-i-ever-received/.

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 Northeast OER Summit. Registration 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. If you are interested in attending, you can register at https://umass.irisregistration.com/Site/OER.    
• MCO Conference on eLearning. The 16th Annual Conference on eLearning by Mass Colleges Online (MCO) will take place on June 2nd as a virtual event between 8:00am – 1:00pm. The MCO Conference is a great opportunity to explore and discuss how colleges and universities in Massachusetts are designing and delivering online and hybrid education. The event is free for North Shore Community College faculty and staff. Please contact the CTLI for registration link. More information on the conference is available at http://masscollegesonline.org/conference/.
• REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit. “After a year unlike any other, education continues evolving to solve for new challenges and priorities. REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit, hosted by ASU, provides a free forum on June 9 and June 10 to identify and promote the best possible pedagogy, techniques, and tools for online and blended learning, helping educators design the most engaging experience for learners. Join Pearson and thousands of educators, administrators, and thought leaders worldwide to explore the best of what we learned this past year about hybrid courses, blended environments, best practices for student engagement, driving innovation and outcomes with technology, and so much more.” (Summit description) More information and registration link available at https://www.theremotesummit.org/. 
• 10th Annual NSCC Faculty Technology Summer Institute. In June, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) will be holding a virtual Faculty Technology Summer Institute. he Summer Institute's theme is "Humanizing the Online Learning Experience" and the sessions will focus on faculty professional development around fostering presence in virtual classrooms as well as engaging students in a collaborative community through student to student interaction, student to instructor interaction, and student to content interaction. The Summer Institute will take place on Tuesday, June 15th through Thursday, June 17th from 9:30am-12:00pm. Space is limited to 45 faculty and is first come first served so please RSVP by Friday, May 28th. Faculty who attend the Summer Institute will receive a small stipend. Please contact the CTLI for registration link.
• Dis/Misinformation: Perspectives and Pedagogies for Educators in the Post-Truth Era. Harvard University's Global Studies Outreach Center is offering their 9th annual free summer educator workshop virtually over a two-week period: July 26 - August 6. Participants can join for all or some of the sessions offered over those two weeks. More information is available at https://globalstudiesoutreach.harvard.edu/. 

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• Open Educational Resources in the COVID Era (Massachusetts Department of Higher Education’s OER Advisory Council webinar) on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM OR Thursday, May 20, 2021 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM. “Now more than ever, college students have a serious need for low-cost, readily available, digitally flexible course materials. It's the perfect time to learn more about how Open Educational Resources (OER) provides solutions for you and your students! You are invited to learn more by attending an upcoming webinar facilitated by members of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education’s OER Advisory Council as part of a statewide effort to promote the use of OER. This webinar will introduce you to the basics of OER, provide context for the vital way OER helps our students (particularly low-income students), offer key definitions and considerations related to OER adoption, and offer steps for getting started with incorporating OER in your own classes.” Register for the May 19th webinar at https://open.umn.edu/network/workshops/open-educational-resources-in-the-covid-era and the May 20th webinar at https://open.umn.edu/network/workshops/open-educational-resources-in-the-covid-era-05-20-21.
• How to Create Active and Engaging Learning Experiences with Zoom Breakout Rooms (Contact North webinar) on Thursday, May 20th from 11:00am - 12:00pm EST. “Zoom’s breakout rooms provide a unique opportunity to learn to create active and engaging learning experiences for students. In this webinar, participants will learn how to: move beyond holding ineffective, unstructured breakout room discussions; create distinctive breakout room roles for students to promote active participation; employ a variety of tools and techniques to enhance breakout room experiences; pre-assign students to breakout rooms or allow them to choose their own; design creative ways for students to report breakout room outcomes to the whole class; and make use of breakout rooms in large enrolment courses” (webinar description). More information and registration link are available at https://teachonline.ca/webinar/how-create-active-and-engaging-learning-experiences-zoom-breakout-rooms-1.

Interesting Articles and Resources

• Live with Wendy Trevor: Overcoming Student Distaste for Collaborative Group Work Online. (Faculty Focus Live Podcast) “How can you help students overcome their distaste for collaborative group work online (and also thereby change your view of such work)? Wendy Trevor discusses how the timing of the assignment, the structure, instructor presence, feedback, and a grading rubric which privileges individual contributions, and signals the importance of engaging with others' views, can help students approach group work more positively. Additionally, she touches on how group projects can foster the kind of communication skills and cooperative work employers’ today value.”, https://www.facultyfocus.com/faculty-focus-live-podcast/
• Engaging Community Projects from a Safe Distance, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-course-design-and-preparation/engaging-community-projects-from-a-safe-distance/

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  

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (10/26/2020)

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 October 26th is How Do I Go Beyond the Basics of Universal Design for 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/how-do-i-go-beyond-the-basics-of-universal-design-for-learning/. The complete fall 2020 schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2020/09/20-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

• Ninth Annual Massachusetts Department of Higher Education Assessment Conference. The Conference will be held virtually on Friday, October 30th from 9:00am to 3:00pm. You can view the conference program and register for this free conference at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/9th-annual-amcoa-conference-registration-123746809037. The conference keynote speaker will be Dr. Natasha Jankowski, executive director of NILOA, who will give a talk entitled, “Equity & Assessment: Moving Towards Culturally Responsive Assessment.” Dr. Jankowski is one of the country’s leading voices on the topic of equity in assessment work. Session leaders from public and private institutions will share their knowledge and experience during eight 75-minute workshops. The conference’s morning session will focus on applying the equity agenda to assessment in practice, and the afternoon session will explore assessment tools & approaches. Of particular note for those interested in the topic of Transparency in Learning and Teaching, Dr. Mary-Ann Winkelmes will be leading one of the conference’s afternoon sessions.   

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques [Magna Online Seminar] on Tuesday, October 27th at 2:00pm EST. “Educators everywhere are facing the challenge of teaching students who do not engage deeply at a cognitive level. Even more challenging is being able to get students to actively engage in online courses. In this free Magna Online Seminar, you will learn how to think differently about active learning and how to encourage students to engage in it. You will also learn about different challenges to active learning and about active learning techniques that help students overcome those challenges.” (description from event email) More information as well as registration link available at https://www.magnapubs.com/product/online-seminars/live/engaging-college-students-using-active-learning-techniques/        

Interesting Resources

• The UDL Guidelines, http://udlguidelines.cast.org/
• Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction, https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/equal-access-universal-design-instruction
• UDL’s essential place in the post-pandemic learning environment, https://www.ecampusnews.com/2020/10/21/udls-essential-place-in-the-post-pandemic-learning-environment/
• Peralta Online Equity Rubric?, https://web.peralta.edu/de/equity-initiative/equity/
• Eleven Alternative Assessments for a Blended Synchronous Learning Environment, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/blended-flipped-learning/eleven-alternative-assessments-for-a-blended-synchronous-learning-environment/

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 

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (9/28/2020)

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 September 28th is How Can I Use LMS Intelligent Agents to Increase Interaction in My Online Classes? 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/how-can-i-use-lms-intelligent-agents-to-increase-interaction-in-my-online-classes/. The complete fall 2020 schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2020/09/20-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. 

  

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• The Dawn of the Age of Digital Learning [Virtual Summit sponsored by Arizona State University] from SEP 29 –OCT 1, 7 & 8. "The dawn of the age of digital learning has created an awakening of ingenuity, innovation and perseverance that is not defined by an individual, company, school or technology. It is an ecosystem of heart, energy and passion driven by purposeful change. This is why we bring you ASU+GSV Virtual Summit 2020 – imagining a new era in which all people have equal access to the future. Attendance will be free of charge." [from the event description on their website]. Visit https://virtual.asugsvsummit.com/2020 for more information.
• Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques [League for Innovation webinar] on Thursday, October 1 at 12:00pm EST. “Our knowledge of how students learn has grown significantly over the last few decades. In keeping with this trend, the quality and sheer amount of research on instructional strategies has also grown, and active learning has emerged as an instructional method that can improve learning outcomes for all students, including students from marginalized backgrounds and populations. In this webinar, participants will learn about active learning techniques that have been shown to improve student learning in the college classroom.” [from the program description] More information and registration link available at https://www.league.org/istream-other/engaging-college-students-using-active-learning-techniques. 
• Empower Students for Academic Success: Teaching Students Study Skills Informed by the Science of Learning on Friday, November 6, 2020, from 8:30 am until 3:30 pm EST. “This free webinar from the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and Learning at the University of New Hampshire should be of interest to faculty who want to assist their -students in acquiring and using study strategies that may improve their learning, retention, and transfer of academic material. It also should be of interest to staff of teaching and learning centers, faculty/educational development programs, student learning assistance programs, student academic success programs, etc.” [from the program description] If interested, please register at https://www.unh.edu/cetl/empower-students-academic-success-teaching-students-study-skills-informed-science-learning-0.
• Instructor Webinar Series: Remote Instruction from Basics to Advanced [Blackboard]. In October, Blackboard is hosting a series of free webinars to help with the transition to remote teaching. "This webinar series is designed for Instructors who are just getting started with teaching using Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Collaborate, as well as those who have started to transition to deliver instruction remotely and are looking to make some improvements." [from the webinar series web page] For more information and to register for any of the webinars, please visit https://go.blackboard.com/Instructor-webinar-series.
      

Interesting Resources

• Syncing with Students: Valuable Qualities of Synchronous Online Teaching, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/syncing-with-students-valuable-qualities-of-synchronous-online-teaching/ 
• Reimagining Service Learning in the Digital Age, https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/09/23/how-adapt-service-learning-hybrid-or-online-classes-opinion
• Dear Professors: Don't Let Student Webcams Trick You, https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/9/dear-professors-dont-let-student-webcams-trick-you
• 5 Ways Open Educational Resources Can Help Students Succeed This Fall, https://nebhe.org/journal/5-ways-open-educational-resources-can-help-students-succeed-this-fall/ 
       

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

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (3/9/2020)

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 9th is How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor? 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-i-become-a-better-online-instructor-15270-1.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.    
    
Interesting Resources

• How to Be a Better Online Teacher – Advice Guide by Flower Darby, https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-online-teaching 
• The Teaching Online Podcast (TOPcast), https://cdl.ucf.edu/teach/resources/topcast/ 
• Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository, https://topr.online.ucf.edu/
• Peer advice for instructors teaching online for first time, https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/11/15/peer-advice-instructors-teaching-online-first-time 
• Veteran online instructors share tips on improving their practices, https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/04/11/veteran-online-instructors-share-tips-improving-their-practices
• 6 Ways to Be a Better Online Teacher, https://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/03/26/6-ways-to-be-a-better-online-teacher.aspx
     

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

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

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

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (2/10/2020)

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 10th is How Can I Cost-Effectively Use Virtual Reality to Enhance 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-i-cost-effectively-use-virtual-reality-to-enhance-instruction-15282-1.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.  
  
Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• Attributions, Authoring, Platforms [CCCOER Webinar] on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 from 3:00pm-4:00pm.“Remixing openly licensed materials from different sources is a hallmark of OER but can make for complicated attributions. The webinar will start with best practices for attribution of curated openly-licensed works. Three faculty will then share their experiences authoring and providing attributions of remixed OER in the Pressbooks and Libretexts platforms.” Register at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/upcvd-ChrjkreDxqh3CiW1SDzua_J11EvA
     

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

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

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 spring Monday Morning Mentor series, professional development in twenty-minute snippets, kicks off today with this week’s topic, How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload? 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-online-instructors-better-manage-their-workload-15277-1.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.  
  
Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• Attributions, Authoring, Platforms [CCCOER Webinar] on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 from 3:00pm-4:00pm.“Remixing openly licensed materials from different sources is a hallmark of OER but can make for complicated attributions. The webinar will start with best practices for attribution of curated openly-licensed works. Three faculty will then share their experiences authoring and providing attributions of remixed OER in the Pressbooks and Libretexts platforms.” Register at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/upcvd-ChrjkreDxqh3CiW1SDzua_J11EvA 
    

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