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Learning Center Courses, facilitated by recognized leaders, provide in-depth coverage of current information technology topics. Learning Center Courses are fee-based, three- or six-hour, lab- or nonlab-based sessions that deliver a body of practical knowledge and applications. Learning Center Courses augment the conference program by providing in-depth exposure to specific topics. Selection of faculty for these courses is very competitive and is based on course content and thoroughness of the proposed course design. Lecture-only presentations are not accepted.
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 Learning Center Courses with this icon are held in computer labs.
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Full-Day Learning Center Courses
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
$150 per course
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Chief Information Officer's Summit
Kick off the League’s Conference on Information Technology with this annual gathering of community college Chief Information Officers. Summit participants discuss effective strategies, timely issues, and model information technology and infrastructure programs. The summit’s experienced technology leaders facilitate discussions about effective solutions to hot topics such as sustainability (Green IT), virtualization, e-discovery, cloud computing, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Also included is an open question and answer session about issues of specific concern to session participants. The CIO Summit is designed to help community college technology leaders help their peers improve the information technology systems in our colleges today while creating a vision for tomorrow.
Todd Jorns, Senior Director
Instructional Technology
Illinois Community College Board
Kimberley Conley, CIO
Technology Solutions
Henderson Community College
Kenneth Green, Director
The Campus Computing Project
Darrel Huish, Chief Information Officer
Information Technology Services
Maricopa County Community College District
Kenneth Moore, Senior Vice President and CIO
Information Technology and Business Operations
Sinclair Community College
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Copyright and Digital Media: Clues You Can Use in the Classroom
Participants in the course learn the very important issues surrounding copyright and fair use of images, video, music, and other media downloaded from the internet. Participants learn and apply copyright law in the context of digital media and focus on how to find public-domain and open-access media. Participants leave the course with an increased understanding of copyrighted works and how to find media they and their students can use in coursework.
Barbara Waxer, Instructor
Design and Media Arts
Santa Fe Community College
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Why Do I Need a Second Life?
Second Life (SL) is the rich-media 3D world occupied by millions of resident avatars. Participants in this course visit a variety of places and develop SL skills. Although this session is not overly technical, participants gain hands-on experience creating environments and objects, taking photographs and movies, and exploring applications of SL in teaching and learning. Course sections include the history of virtual worlds; creating and modifying avatars; keeping track of your content in SL; and real-life applications of SL for business, industry, and community colleges.
Lawrence Miller, Chief Academic Officer
Snead State Community College
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Morning Learning Center Courses
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
$100 per course
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Using Office Tools to Enhance Instruction
Do you know that anything on a PowerPoint slide can be animated, thereby adding greatly to the educational impact? Most educators are unaware that Word and PowerPoint share a powerful graphics editor. Course participants practice the basic techniques that make adding graphics to a document or presentation simple and easy and create basic graphics using the tools available in PowerPoint and Word. Using graphics primitives, participants create an object, color it using shaded fills, create a group, and then scale it to an appropriate size. To learn the more complex animation process, course participants arrange and animate graphics primitives and discover how to read the animation time line.
John Thommen, Professor
Center for Teaching Excellence
Lansing Community College
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Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL): An Orientation Workshop
This course introduces instructors and administrators to PBCL and enables them to complete the first event of a professional development plan. Course participants learn what problem-based case learning is, how it works, and why research validates its value in STEM education. Participants identify opportunities to integrate PBCL into current teaching practice and explore resources to support implementation. PBCL concepts are introduced through videos of practitioners and students in action and through online PBCL resources and design tools. Course participants are immersed in a PBCL example to experience the process and power of PBCL as an innovative teaching and learning approach to STEM education. This course not only helps participants learn about PBCL, but it actually provides an experience with PBCL as an innovative practice. As a result, participants can develop their own PBCL experiences based on their local business opportunities. Postconference online support and planning are provided.
Dale Rogers, Coordinator
Visual Communications
Nashville State Community College
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Afternoon Learning Center Courses
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
$100 per course
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A Guide to Building Brief Hybrid Workshops [BHW]
Brief Hybrid Workshops [BHW], an activity of less than 15 minutes that includes internet-accessible media clips, documents, instructions, and guidelines, along with web-based tools, software, and resource collections, are targeted and flexible teaching and learning tools that can be face-to-face, online, or both. Their purpose is to support professional development and the improvement of teaching and learning. BHWs have low incremental cost in time, money, stress, training, and maintenance. During this course, participants learn about BHWs and how to develop these targeted, flexible teaching and learning tools. Course topics include fundamental BHW values, goals, and essential elements; BHW tools; building BHWs; and facilitating a BHW workshop.
Steven Gilbert, President
The TLT Group
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Ensuring Quality in Online Learning: A Primer for Administrators
Quality means very different things to different people when it comes to online learning. Designed for higher education administrators charged with managing e-learning operations, this course provides strategies for ensuring a high level of quality in online learning. During this course, the primary focus is on raising the quality of online course design, measuring the quality of online teaching, and measuring the quality of online learning.
Barry Dahl, Vice President
Lake Superior Connect
Lake Superior College
Hanna Erpestad, Dean
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Lake Superior College
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