20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Fall 2023 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 2023. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below. 

• August 21 - How Can I Use AI to Draft Course Materials
• August 28 - What Are 14 Strategies to Take My Teaching Career from Good to Great?
• September 4 - How Can I Use the Discussion Board to Stimulate Engagement and Build Confidence for First-Year Students?
• September 11 - How Can I Create Assessments to Effectively Measure Student Learning?
• September 18 - How Can I Harness the Power of Story to Create a Classroom Community?
• September 25 - How Do I Strat Using VR as a Tool for Instruction?
• October 2 - How Can I Introduce Creativity to My Classes to Build Connection with Students?
• October 9 - How Can Intentionally Create a Course that Boosts Learning and Decreases Stress?
• October 16 - How Can I Use AI as a Student Writing and Editing Coach?
• October 23 - How I Can Move from Supporting to Empowering Trans-spectrum Students?
• October 30 - What Do I Need to Know to Get My Podcast Started
November 6 - How Can I Use Podcasts to Enhance Course Content and Increase Engagement?
• November 13 - How Can Media Richness Theory and Social Presence Theory Improve My Instruction?
• November 20 - How Can I Create a Tutoring Library Using Podcasts and Videos from My Course?
• November 27 - How Can I Pace DEI Work to See Subtle Gains Now and Significant Gains in the Future?
• December 4 - How Can I Become a Better Online Instructor?

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

Preparing your Blackboard Learn Course Sites for Fall 2022

As you start to work on your fall courses, we wanted to share with you the following important information that will help you prepare your course site in Blackboard Learn.

Copying a Course
If you had us increase your course content collection quota in the course you are copying forward, please make sure to reach out to us before starting the course copy. We will need to increase the course content collection quota in the new course first.

To copy a previous course site into a new one in Blackboard Learn:

1. Go into the course site that has the content to copy. In the Control Panel, expand the "Packages and Utilities" section and click Course Copy.
2. On the next screen, in the “Select Copy Type” section, make sure Copy Course Materials into Existing Course is selected in the drop down menu.
3. Now, in the “Select Copy Options” section, next to the Destination Course ID field, click Browse. Then, find and select the Course ID for the new course (the one you want to put the content into). Click Submit.
4. Select the Course Materials that you want to copy over to the new course. Usually, Select All is the best choice, although you might not want to copy announcements.
• If Select All is not used, make sure to include Grade Center Columns and Settings if Assignments and/or Tests are being copied.
• Also, under Discussion Board, select "Include only the forums, with no starter posts" if threads are not created by the instructor for students to respond to. If not, all student threads will copy over as anonymous and they will need to be deleted.
  
  
5. In the “File Attachments” section, keep the default settings.
6. Click Submit.

Please note: When a previous course site is copied over into a new course site, any new or changed content areas will be added to the bottom of the course menu (below Help). You can easily move them up into the appropriate spot in the course menu by dragging/dropping the menu item. 

    
  

Starting in the summer, the course template was changed from Course Information to Syllabus and Course Information. The new Syllabus and Course Information area may be blank with your course materials in Course Information towards the bottom of the course menu. To avoid confusion, we encourage you to post your syllabus and any other course information in the Syllabus and Course Information area and either delete or hide the other Course Information content area.

Making your Course Shell Available to Students
When your course shell is ready for students to view, you will need to give them access. All course sites are unavailable to students by default. You can easily make your course sites available from the My Home page using the Qwickly multi-course tool.

If you are in your course site, you should see a lock icon up at the top of your course site (to the left of Edit Mode). If you click that lock icon, it will make the course available to students. If you do not see the lock icon, here are the directions for making it available to your students.

To open your course:

1. In your Blackboard Learn course shell, in the Control Panel, expand the Customization section and click Properties.
2. On the next screen, scroll down to the “Set Availability” section and select Yes to make the course available.
• Note: We recommend that you select Yes and Continuous instead of Use Term Availability and Select Dates. Term Availability is set to the last day of classes and will close your course site that day (even though your students might still need access to finish up the course).
3. Click Submit to enable your students to see and access your course shell.

Preparing your Blackboard Learn Course Site for a New Semester
If you have already been using Blackboard Learn for your courses, please check out this handy reference to help you prepare your Blackboard Learn course site for a new semester at https://bit.ly/3a0NjCT.

Blackboard Learn Pre-Semester Course Checklist
Once your course has been copied over, please review this checklist at https://bit.ly/3sulKrZ to help you make sure your course site in Blackboard Learn is ready to go for the upcoming semester.

Blackboard Learn How-To Guide for Faculty
If you have any questions about using some of the features of Blackboard Learn, we encourage you to check out our Blackboard Learn How-To Guide for Faculty at https://sites.google.com/northshore.edu/blackboard-faculty/home. Here we have step-by-step guides to learn how to use the top ten Blackboard Learn features as well as links to some recorded workshops and additional resources for faculty and students.

If you have any questions or run into any issues, please do not hesitate to contact me or the Blackboard Learn Helpdesk at bbhelp@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  

20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Spring 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 spring 2022. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below. 

• January 17 - How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?
• January 24 - How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?
• January 31 - How Do I Structure Virtual Office Hours to Promote Student Use?
• February 7 - How Do I Create a Class That Support First-Year Students?
• February 14 - What’s Different About Teaching Online, and How Do I Change So My Students Succeed?
• February 21 - How Can Disruptive Innovation Impact STEM Education?
• February 28 - How Can I Assess Students in my Online Classes through Student-created Videos?
• March 7 - What Are Practical Solutions for Managing My Online Teaching Workload?
• March 14 - How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?
• March 21 - What Are Active Strategies for Structuring a Synchronous Class?
• March 28 - What Are Three Proven Ways to Manage My Online Discussion Board and Actively Engage Students?
• April 4 - How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?
• April 11 - How Can Online Instructors Make Themselves More Visible to Students?
• April 18 - How Can I Be a More Productive and Effective Teacher?
• April 25 - How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?
• May 2 - What Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques Can I Use to Improve Learning?

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

Preparing for Spring 2022 Courses in Blackboard Learn

As you start to think about your spring courses, we wanted to share with you the following important information that will help you prepare your course site in Blackboard Learn.

Copying a Course
If you had us increase your course content collection quota in the course you are copying forward, please make sure to reach out to us before starting the course copy. We will need to increase the course content collection quota in the new course first.

To copy a previous course site into a new one in Blackboard Learn:

1. Go into the course site that has the content to copy. In the Control Panel, expand the "Packages and Utilities" section and click Course Copy.On the next screen, in the “Select Copy Type” section, make sure Copy Course Materials into Existing Course is selected in the drop down menu.
2. Now, in the “Select Copy Options” section, next to the Destination Course ID field, click Browse. Then, find and select the Course ID for the new course (the one you want to put the content into). Click Submit.
3. Select the Course Materials that you want to copy over to the new course. Usually, Select All is the best choice, although you might not want to copy announcements.
1. If Select All is not used, make sure to include Grade Center Columns and Settings if Assignments and/or Tests are being copied.
2. Also, under Discussion Board, select Include only the forums, with no starter posts if threads are not created by the instructor for students to respond to. If not, all student threads will copy over as anonymous and they will need to be deleted.
4. In the “File Attachments” section, keep the default settings.
5. Click Submit.

Please note: When a previous course site is copied over into a new course site, any new or changed content areas will be added to the bottom of the course menu.

Make Your Course Available
All Blackboard Learn course sites are unavailable to students by default. Here are the directions for making the course site available to your students. If you are in your course site, you should see a lock icon up at the top of your course site (to the left of Edit Mode). If you click that lock icon, it will make the course available to students. 

If you do not see the lock icon, here are the directions for making it available to your students.

To open your course:

1. Go into the course site.
2. On the Control Panel, expand the "Customization" section and click Properties.
3. On the next screen, in the "Set Availability" section, select Yes to make the course available.
4. Click Submit.

Preparing a Blackboard Learn Course Site for a New Semester
Please check out this handy reference at http://goo.gl/pZbUZ8 to help you prepare a  Blackboard Learn course site for a new semester.

Blackboard Learn Pre-Semester Course Checklist
Once your course has been copied over, please review this checklist at https://goo.gl/18q3r5 to help you make sure your course site in Blackboard Learn is ready to go for the upcoming semester. 

Blackboard Learn How-To Guide for Faculty

If you have any questions about using some of the features of Blackboard Learn, we encourage you to check out our Blackboard Learn How-To Guide for Faculty at https://sites.google.com/northshore.edu/blackboard-faculty/home. Here we have step-by-step guides to learn how to use the top ten Blackboard Learn features as well as links to some recorded workshops and additional resources for faculty and students.  

Please do not hesitate to contact the Blackboard Learn Helpdesk at bbhelp@northshore.edu if there are any issues with Blackboard Learn.

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (11/1/2021)

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 fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of November 1st is How Can I Develop Opportunity-Minded Learners? 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-develop-opportunity-minded-learners/. The complete fall schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2021/08/20-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

• Growth, Understanding, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (G.U.I.D.E.) Conference. Registration is open for this free, virtual conference on November 18-19. “Rowan-Cabarrus Community College’s Growth, Understanding, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (G.U.I.D.E.) Conference seeks to create a learning space for professionals in educational institutions and community-based organizations to celebrate achievements, be inspired by best practices, and learn how to drive change in their home institutions/organizations. The G.U.I.D.E. Conference brings together speakers with different areas of expertise. You will learn about equity issues in schools, communities, and the workplace, have an opportunity to network; and share best practices to apply as your G.U.I.D.E. for success!” (conference description) More information about the conference as well as the link to register is available at https://www.rccc.edu/diversity/conference-2021/. Registration closes November 14.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• Intersection of EDI and Open (CCCOER webinar) on Wednesday, November 10 at 3:00pm. “How do the goals and issues of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion intersect with Open Education? We will explore how these impact each other and how we might improve our efforts in each to enhance the other. Join us to hear from a diverse panel as they discuss their work in promoting Inclusive and Equitable access, finding culturally relevant content, inviting diverse authors and perspectives, and recognizing biased content in OER creation.” (webinar description). More information and registration link available at https://www.cccoer.org/webinar/intersection-of-edi-and-open/.

DEI in OER: Three Perspectives

As part of International Open Access Week, http://www.openaccessweek.org/, the MA OER Advisory Council published three podcasts with faculty members at Bridgewater State University, Holyoke Community College, and Salem State University on using OER to support diversity, equity, and inclusion. The podcasts can be accessed at https://soundcloud.com/1035wcch/sets/the-ma-oer-advisory-council?si=c19ce1870e404ac494ce440cb2a0d063.

NISOD Annual Fall Virtual Conference

The session recordings from the NISOD Annual Fall Virtual Conference are now available. The college purchased an institutional registration so you have access to these recordings until October 19, 2022. If you registered for the conference, you can access the recordings at https://www.nisod.org/virtual-conf/. If you did not register for the conference but would like to access the recordings, you will want to register for post-event access at https://www.nisod.org/forms/registration-post-vc/index.php?EventID=423&Token=N928qNWN4t63dSFFGFSQU5JI7yrdxuYzXz7z7I.

Interesting Articles and Resources

• Five Strategies for Mastering the Art of Answering Questions When Teaching and Presenting, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/five-strategies-for-mastering-the-art-of-answering-questions-when-teaching-and-presenting/

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 (10/18/2021)

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 fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of October 18th is How Can I Encourage Students to Stay Connected with Course Content After Class? 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-encourage-students-to-stay-connected-with-course-content-after-class/. The complete fall schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2021/08/20-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

• 46th Forum on Tolerance. This fall, the Forum on Tolerance’s focus will be “What does Asian American mean? Identities, Struggles, & Contributions”. The virtual event will take place October 18th through October 22nd. Speakers include: Dr. Paul Watanabe, keynote; Dr. Ben Railton; Dr. Li Li; and author Aimee Liu. To see the entire schedule of events and session topics as well as to register for sessions, please visit https://www.northshore.edu/tolerance/.
• NISOD Fall Virtual Conference. NSCC has purchased an institutional registration for NISOD’s Fall Virtual Conference to be held October 20th through October 22nd. The institutional registration allows all North Shore Community College employees to register at no cost for this event. Sessions will be focused around these tracks: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice; Online, Face-to-Face, and Hybrid Teaching and Learning; and Student Services, Support, and Success. More information about the conference is available at https://www.nisod.org/virtual-events/conference/. All you need to do to participate in the conference without cost is to register by October 19th using your college email address.
• Education as Relating: A Virtual Conference. The Taos Institute will be hosting a virtual conference from November 4th to November 6th on “Education as Relating: Shedding the Industrial Model - Sharing Resources and Practices - Shaping the Future of Education”. Kara Kaufman, Professor of History and Gender & Women's Studies, will be presenting at the conference on the dialogic classroom.  More information about the conference is available at https://www.taosinstitute.net/education/taos-conferences/education-virtual-conference2021. There is a small registration fee but interested faculty and staff can apply for a NSCC Professional Development Grant to cover the cost to attend.  
• Digital Teaching Symposium. On Friday, November 5 from 9:00am to 4:00pm, Blackboard is hosting a free, virtual Digital Teaching Symposium. “Learners’ journeys are no longer linear—and the pathway to successfully teaching individual learners requires flexibility and innovation. The future of education exists in personalized experiences, delivered in methods as unique as the learners themselves. No matter what your technical abilities, learning technologies are designed to facilitate teaching and make your job easier. Let's come together to explore these tools, learn best practices, discover new strategies, and share with colleagues.” (event website) Registration information is available at https://go.blackboard.com/digital-teaching-symposium.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• 10 Ways on How to Make Your Fall Classes Better (Contact North webinar) on Wednesday, October 20 from 11:00am-12:00pm. "Student engagement is the holy grail of online learning. The more engaged students are and the more they feel part of a learning community online, the more successful they are — and teachers can do many things to improve engagement. This webinar is based on years of experience and experimenting in class and online with what works. In this engaging webinar, you’ll get an opportunity to: Explore the importance of engagement, participation, support and flexibility in the design of learning experiences; Learn specific actions you can take to increase engagement and improve learning outcomes; and See 10 examples in action and understand their strengths and weaknesses." (webinar description) More information and registration link available at https://teachonline.ca/webinar/10-ways-how-make-your-fall-classes-better.
• Building Bridges of Inclusion: Creating Dynamic Learning Relationships (Digital Commonwealth webinar) on Wednesday, October 20 from 1:00pm-2:00pm. NSCC professor Troy Smith facilitates this free session which “seeks to build meaningful dialogue between members of the digital archival community and adult learners. Some questions to be considered include: to what extent do individuals of color or other underrepresented groups identify with digitized historical collections? What can enable community members to be stakeholders in the archival process? What impact does this material have on the learning process of students? How have the dynamics of discussing and teaching about race changed over the years? How are students affected by the digital divide? Given the recent controversies such as critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the confederate monuments, what are the conversations in the classroom?  How might an archival-based curriculum serve as a part of the educational process?” (webinar description). More information and registration link is available at https://digitalcommonwealth.wildapricot.org/event-4497789. 
• Normal Isn't Coming Back. What Can Educators and Students Do to Adapt in Our Ever-Changing Learning Environment? (Harvard Business Publishing Education webinar) on Thursday, October 28th from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. “We are over 18 months into a pandemic. And the cognitive overload we face only continues to expand, for both educators and students. There are no “best practices” for where we are today. In this webinar, Harvard Business Review Editor Amy Bernstein will lead a conversation with Michellana Jester, an expert in Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, about strategies educators and students can use to adapt and move forward in this ambiguous learning environment.” (webinar description) More information and to register, visit https://he.hbsp.harvard.edu/normal-isnt-coming-back.html.

Interesting Articles and Resources

• Tips from the Pros: Improve Student Learning with Peer Feedback, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-assessment-grading-and-feedback/tips-from-the-pros-improve-student-learning-with-peer-feedback/ 
• Using Small Group Check-ins to Maximize Peer Engagement and Support Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in Online Courses, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-course-delivery-and-instruction/using-small-group-check-ins-to-maximize-peer-engagement-and-support-social-and-emotional-learning-sel-in-online-courses/

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 (10/4/2021)

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 fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of October 4th is How Can I Ensure Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom? 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-ensure-academic-integrity-in-the-online-classroom/. The complete fall schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2021/08/20-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

• The Growth Mindset. This virtual workshop on Friday, October 8th at 11:00am is being sponsored by NSCC’s The RAP Experience. “How we think about our ability to confidently try new things and keep going when they get hard can set us for success or serve as a barrier to success. For many of us, we must work to have a growth mindset while also navigating social structures and systems that send deficit-oriented messages about who we are and the communities we come from. Join this session to learn more about growth mindsets and identify ways to critically assess how the environments we participate in influence our mindsets.” Please see the flyer sent in the iDevelop email for as well as registration link. 
• MA Community of Teaching Symposium. Faculty representatives from Massachusetts Community Colleges invite you to join them in a symposium of teaching and learning. This symposium, Teaching through an Equity Lens: What We Learned on our Summer Vacation, will take place on October 15th from 8:30am to 1:00pm. “Facilitated by the Center for Urban Education, these faculty engaged in thoughtful, reflective analysis of their teaching practice through an equity lens to improve the classroom experience for their students. Dr. Jennifer Harris and Professor yusef Hayes will be presenting "Equity Through Multiple Lenses" at 11:00 am.” Please see the flyer for more information as well as the Zoom link. The flyer is available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iqt5juPln8xCvssLUQj3o2P2h4Y-jV-Q/view. 
• 2021 Open Education Conference. The 2021 Open Education Conference will be held October 18 through October 22. The annual conference brings together more than a thousand open education advocates across the country and world for a wide range of sessions on OER, open pedagogy, and open education initiatives. This year’s virtual program offers 200+ live and pre-recorded sessions, along with networking and social activities. More information about the conference is available at https://openeducationconference.org/. There is a small registration fee but interested faculty and staff can apply for a NSCC Professional Development Grant to cover the cost to attend.
• 46th Forum on Tolerance. This fall, the Forum on Tolerance’s focus will be “What does Asian American mean? Identities, Struggles, & Contributions”. The virtual event will take place October 18th through October 22nd. Speakers include: Dr. Paul Watanabe, keynote; Dr. Ben Railton; Dr. Li Li; and author Aimee Liu. To see the entire schedule of events and session topics as well as to register for sessions, please visit https://www.northshore.edu/tolerance/.
• NISOD Fall Virtual Conference. NSCC has purchased an institutional registration for NISOD’s Fall Virtual Conference to be held October 20th through October 22nd. The institutional registration allows all North Shore Community College employees to register at no cost for this event. Sessions will be focused around these tracks: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice; Online, Face-to-Face, and Hybrid Teaching and Learning; and Student Services, Support, and Success. More information about the conference is available at https://www.nisod.org/virtual-events/conference/. All you need to do to participate in the conference without cost is to register by October 19th using your college email address.
• 2021 Assessment Institute. The 2021 Assessment Institute, https://assessmentinstitute.iupui.edu/index.html, will be held virtually from October 24th to October 27th. The institute is highly regarded in the field of assessment and offers the opportunity for higher education faculty, staff, and administrators to share knowledge and learn new skills regarding student outcomes assessment. If you are interested in further developing your assessment skills, this is an excellent opportunity! To learn more, please visit the institute’s presentation topics. A sampling of presentation tracks includes: Assessment in Online Courses and Programs; Assessment Methods; Community Colleges; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; STEM Education; and Student Partnership and Engagement in Assessment. Institute registration is complimentary this year, which represents a $370 cost savings. If you would like to attend, please register by October 11th at https://assessmentinstitute.iupui.edu/registration/index.html. 
• Education as Relating: A Virtual Conference. The Taos Institute will be hosting a virtual conference from November 4th to November 6th on “Education as Relating: Shedding the Industrial Model - Sharing Resources and Practices - Shaping the Future of Education”. Kara Kaufman, Professor of History and Gender & Women's Studies, will be presenting at the conference on the dialogic classroom.  More information about the conference is available at https://www.taosinstitute.net/education/taos-conferences/education-virtual-conference2021. There is a small registration fee but interested faculty and staff can apply for a NSCC Professional Development Grant to cover the cost to attend.  
• Digital Teaching Symposium. On Friday, November 5 from 9:00am to 4:00pm, Blackboard is hosting a free, virtual Digital Teaching Symposium. “Learners’ journeys are no longer linear—and the pathway to successfully teaching individual learners requires flexibility and innovation. The future of education exists in personalized experiences, delivered in methods as unique as the learners themselves. No matter what your technical abilities, learning technologies are designed to facilitate teaching and make your job easier. Let's come together to explore these tools, learn best practices, discover new strategies, and share with colleagues.” (event website) Registration information is available at https://go.blackboard.com/digital-teaching-symposium.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• How to Effectively Use Assessment in Online and Blended Learning to Help Your Students Succeed (Contact North webinar) on Thursday, October 7 from 1:00pm-2:00pm. "There are new opportunities to rethink and reimagine how assessment for learning and assessments of learning takes place in an online and blended learning environment. Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd, Chief Innovation Officer at Contact North | Contact Nord explores five principles for assessment: Authentic Assessment, Accessible Assessment, Automated Assessment, Continuous Assessment, and Secure Assessment." (webinar description) More information and registration link available at https://teachonline.ca/webinar/how-effectively-use-assessment-online-and-blended-learning-help-your-students-succeed-0.

Interesting Articles and Resources

• Why I Went from Proctored Exams to Open-book, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/educational-assessment/why-i-went-from-proctored-exams-to-open-book/
• Small Changes in Teaching (nine part series by James Lang), https://www.chronicle.com/package/small-changes-in-teaching/ 
• Applying Vedic Techniques to Online Learning, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/philosophy-of-teaching/applying-vedic-techniques-to-online-learning/ 
• Lessons Learned: A Toolkit for Post-Pandemic Higher Education with Equity and Student Care at the Center, https://www.everylearnereverywhere.org/blog/10-lessons-from-the-pandemic-on-tech-forward-teaching-for-equity-in-higher-ed/

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 (9/27/2021)

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 fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of September 27th is How Can I Adapt My Teaching So Students Thrive in a Polysynchronous Classroom? 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/adapt-my-teaching-students-thrive-polysynchronous-classroom/. The complete fall schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2021/08/20-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

• The Growth Mindset. This virtual workshop on Friday, October 8th at 11:00am is being sponsored by NSCC’s The RAP Experience. “How we think about our ability to confidently try new things and keep going when they get hard can set us for success or serve as a barrier to success. For many of us, we must work to have a growth mindset while also navigating social structures and systems that send deficit-oriented messages about who we are and the communities we come from. Join this session to learn more about growth mindsets and identify ways to critically assess how the environments we participate in influence our mindsets.” Please see the flyer sent in the iDevelop email for as well as registration link. 
• 2021 Open Education Conference. The 2021 Open Education Conference will be held October 18 through October 22. The annual conference brings together more than a thousand open education advocates across the country and world for a wide range of sessions on OER, open pedagogy, and open education initiatives. This year’s virtual program offers 200+ live and pre-recorded sessions, along with networking and social activities. More information about the conference is available at https://openeducationconference.org/. There is a small registration fee but interested faculty and staff can apply for a NSCC Professional Development Grant to cover the cost to attend.
• 2021 Assessment Institute. The 2021 Assessment Institute, https://assessmentinstitute.iupui.edu/index.html, will be held virtually from October 24th to October 27th. The institute is highly regarded in the field of assessment and offers the opportunity for higher education faculty, staff, and administrators to share knowledge and learn new skills regarding student outcomes assessment. If you are interested in further developing your assessment skills, this is an excellent opportunity! To learn more, please visit the institute’s presentation topics. A sampling of presentation tracks includes: Assessment in Online Courses and Programs; Assessment Methods; Community Colleges; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; STEM Education; and Student Partnership and Engagement in Assessment. Institute registration is complimentary this year, which represents a $370 cost savings. If you would like to attend, please register by October 11th at https://assessmentinstitute.iupui.edu/registration/index.html. 
• Digital Teaching Symposium. On Friday, November 5 from 9:00am to 4:00pm, Blackboard is hosting a free, virtual Digital Teaching Symposium. “Learners’ journeys are no longer linear—and the pathway to successfully teaching individual learners requires flexibility and innovation. The future of education exists in personalized experiences, delivered in methods as unique as the learners themselves. No matter what your technical abilities, learning technologies are designed to facilitate teaching and make your job easier. Let's come together to explore these tools, learn best practices, discover new strategies, and share with colleagues.” (event website) Registration information is available at https://go.blackboard.com/digital-teaching-symposium.

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

Between September 15 and October 15, we celebrate the political, literary, artistic, athletic and other contributions that Hispanic people have accomplished; these contributions have enriched all of our lives. Here are some great resources if you or your students wish to reflect and learn more or if you would like to incorporate this into your classes.

• National Archives: Hispanic Heritage Month, https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/hispanic-heritage-month
• WGBH: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, https://www.wgbh.org/hispanic-heritage-month
• PBS: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2021, https://www.pbs.org/articles/2021/09/celebrate-hispanic-heritage-month-2021/
• National Hispanic Heritage Month, https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/
• Business Insider Reviews: 20 Books to Read for Hispanic Heritage Month, https://www.businessinsider.com/hispanic-heritage-month-books

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

• How to Effectively Use Assessment in Online and Blended Learning to Help Your Students Succeed (Contact North webinar) on Thursday, October 7 from 1:00pm-2:00pm. "There are new opportunities to rethink and reimagine how assessment for learning and assessments of learning takes place in an online and blended learning environment. Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd, Chief Innovation Officer at Contact North | Contact Nord explores five principles for assessment: Authentic Assessment, Accessible Assessment, Automated Assessment, Continuous Assessment, and Secure Assessment." (webinar description) More information and registration link available at https://teachonline.ca/webinar/how-effectively-use-assessment-online-and-blended-learning-help-your-students-succeed-0.

Interesting Articles and Resources

• The Joys of Musical Breakout Rooms, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-student-engagement/the-joys-of-musical-breakout-rooms/
• Attention Is an Achievement: How to Help Students Stay Present and Focused in Class, https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/2021/summer/lang
• Inclusive Teaching Guide, https://ctl.columbia.edu/resources-and-technology/resources/inclusive-teaching-guide/

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