This course guides participants through the process of becoming a certified online instructor. Participants learn the mechanics of teaching online, copyright laws, and the pedagogy required for effective online teaching. Participants complete a streamlined version of the Online Instructor Certification and build an online teaching environment using a popular course management system. Upon completion of this course, participants earn certification as an online instructor, issued by San Jacinto College.

James Baker, Dean
Educational Technology Services
San Jacinto College District

Kick-off the League for Innovation’s Conference on Information Technology by attending this summit designed specifically for technology leaders and college administrators. An international gathering of Chief Information Officers, the summit’s discussions highlight effective strategies, address timely issues, and review model information technology and infrastructure programs. The summit’s experienced facilitators share creative approaches to issues facing technology leaders, including current hot topics such as ERP and RFP planning and funding, disaster recovery and business continuity, smart classrooms, and learning management systems. Summit participants also have an opportunity to break into small groups for peer-related topic discussions concerning important issues such as portals and collaborations, campus communications, and IT organizational structure. Join us for this annual event as community college CIOs from around the world strengthen our commitment to improving information technology systems in our colleges today and developing a vision for tomorrow.

Todd Jorns, Senior Director
Instructional Technology
Illinois Community College Board

Facilitated by managers from one of the nation’s largest and most successful distance learning programs, this highly interactive course provides online program administrators with an opportunity to identify, reflect on, and discuss key instructional staffing issues and strategies involved in expanding online programs. In particular, participants examine critical areas such as seeking institutional support for growth; faculty recruitment efforts; building a course development and support model; recruiting, interviewing, and managing online adjunct faculty; designing workable and scaleable instructional quality practices; and building a student services and support model to sustain the online program. The best practices discussed are low-cost, scaleable, and practical solutions that any institution can adopt. Course participants also receive supporting documents, sample resources, and an extensive resource list.

Jeff Kissinger, Director
Virtual College
Florida State College at Jacksonville

The course provides an overview of viable open-source software relevant to higher education, as well as hands-on opportunities to explore various solutions. Topics explored include the growing national open-source movement, recent developments and emerging solutions, as well as hands-on experience with open-source operating systems, browsers, desktop solutions, teaching platforms, and survey instruments. Course participants also learn how to search for, download, and install open-source software.

Fred Lokken, Associate Dean
Webcollege
Truckee Meadows Community College

Cathy House, Professor and Instructional Designer
Computer Technologies
Truckee Meadows Community College

Travis Souza, Coordinator
E-Learning
Truckee Meadows Community College

Recruitment and career planning in the area of information technology presents a major challenge. Learn how your institution can address these challenges. Course participants are introduced to new and innovative approaches to student recruitment, career planning, and student career readiness. Explored is a web-based system that can increase recruitment results by providing individualized career planning for your students. The course includes a demonstration of the tools and exercises designed to provide individualized career guidance for complex and increasingly specialized IT careers. Each course participant has the opportunity to review, design, and implement a customized student assessment and career planning system using assessment tools, student planning templates, and a certification matrix.

John Sands, Professor
Information Technology
Moraine Valley Community College

This course offers participants the opportunity to learn and apply copyright law in the context of digital media. Large group discussion of the law is followed by small group analysis and application of the legal concepts to specific factual situations. Presentation of copyright law from the constitutional basis through statutory and case law is explored. For example, a fair use discussion outlining four critical factors, as well as cases relevant to the analysis of the factors, is followed by an analysis of a scenario involving song sampling and a student’s request to use portions of the song under fair use. Participants leave the course with an understanding of their and their students’ rights and responsibilities regarding copyrighted works and their appropriate use in coursework.

Barbara Waxer, Instructor
Design and Media Arts
Santa Fe Community College

Having problems convincing your faculty that an instructional designer can add value to their online courses? Instructional designers have ways of leading faculty to water and getting them to drink. Playing on the metaphor of instructional designers as horse whisperers, and by using various interactive exercises, participants in this course learn how instructional designers can hitch faculty to the wagons of sound andragogy, clear objectives, and consistent course design. A discussion about faculty resistance to instructional designer involvement in their online courses springboards the participants into a set of exercises that demonstrates and models positive methods for encouraging faculty to embrace good course design.

Leonard Thurman, Activities Director
Center for Learning Technology
Pima County Community College District

Designed specifically for math, science, language arts, and educational technology faculty members, participants in this course explore real-world learning objects (RWLO) that have been developed by faculty from 17 community colleges and learn how to assemble them into blocks of instructional content. The course begins with a short overview of RWLOs, followed by an exercise to demonstrate how they are used to engage students in the learning process. Participants then experience a guided exploration of the RWLO library and select one RWLO to incorporate into a class they are currently teaching. Participants leave the course knowing how to access and use the growing RWLO Library that continues to be developed through Pathways, a USDOE-funded program designed to help community college faculty who teach our nation’s future teachers.

Marie Nock, District Director
College Training and Development
Miami Dade College - Kendall Campus

Rhonda Berger, Director
Technology Training
Miami Dade College - Kendall Campus

This course mirrors the Learning Cycle process that places conversations in the context of our present competitive global environment, analyzes the problem, gains field insights, implements new or modifies existing educational programs that have their origin in the conversation, evaluates them in the context of improving student achievement, and presents the results. Course participants define a problem and proceed in a challenge-based or learning-cycle fashion, identifying resources and collecting and sharing insights (modeling employability skills) that help them develop model solutions for further independent development. Participants leave the course armed with information about relevant processes and tools and the knowledge and skills necessary to implement change at their institutions. Equally important, course participants learn how the selected application of these tools and processes within the context of a larger plan for reform can provide quick wins that are necessary to sustain momentum and commitment to a strategic plan.

Deborah Boisvert, Executive Director
BATEC
University of Massachusetts - Boston

David McNeel, Consultant
Boston-Area Advanced Technological Education Connections
University of Massachusetts - Boston

Peter Saflund, Managing Principal
Tsi
The Saflund Institute