Notable Presentation from FUSION

At D2L’s recent FUSION conference in Boston, Dr. Cable Green gave a powerful presentation, according to David Chatham, one of our conference attendees. You can see the slides here: “OpenEducation, MOOCs, Student Debt, Textbooks and Other Trends”

Dr. Green is Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons.  

Enjoy and as always, commentary is welcome in the CCCOnline Community!

Connecting to Students

This year, CCCOnline is branding its Annual Conference as CONNECT. (Read more about it at our conference webpage.) In anticipation of this exciting event, which will be held at Arapahoe Community College on Oct. 4, we’d like to know how you connect to students in the online classroom.

Please share your thoughts in the CCCOnline Community, and stay tuned for more information about the conference!

Math MOOC Live at CCCOnline

Exciting news for CCCOnline: we’re running a pilot session of a developmental Math MOOC this summer (through Aug. 9), and more than 100 students are participating! The goal of this MOOC is to help students improve their Math skills for free in a friendly environment, possibly to gain enough knowledge to test out of further remediation, but in any case to improve confidence before furthering their Math education in a formal classroom.

The Math MOOC will run again twice in fall, and we’ll report more about the project in the future! If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Math Associate Dean Erica Hastert at Erica.hastert@cccs.edu. 

As always, your comments are welcome in the CCCOnline Community.

Effectiveness in the Classroom

For your reading enjoyment, below are a few recent articles with the general theme of effectiveness in the classroom:

 

“Who Does Screencasting Help the Most?” by Robert Talbert (5/6/13)
From The Chronicle’s “Casting Out Nines” blog:

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2013/05/06/who-does-screencasting-help-the-most/

 

“Charisma Doesn’t Count” by Chris Parr (5/30/13)
From Inside Higher Ed:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/30/study-finds-students-dont-learn-more-charismatic-lecturers

 

“New Research Effort Aims to Examine Effectiveness of MOOCs” by Sara Grossman (6/10/13)
From The Chronicle’s “Wired Campus” blog:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/new-research-effort-aims-to-examine-effectiveness-of-moocs/44217

CCCOnline CONNECT Conference - Save the Date and Call for Proposals

CCCOnline is very pleased to cordially invite you to attend the CCCOnline CONNECT conference on Friday, October 4th, 2013. 

This year we are introducing CCCOnline CONNECT, a new branding of our annual CCCOnline conference. Along with this new brand comes an increased focus on connecting our instructors with new innovation and inspiration in online teaching and learning. CCCOnline CONNECT is a free, one-day event drawing around 300 instructors from CCCOnline and other colleges in the Colorado Community College system.  This annual event is an important opportunity for our online instructors to meet face to face to engage with each other and with new ideas in eLearning innovation. The conference will include presentations on the current state of CCCOnline, headlining presentations by keynote speakers, and breakout sessions by CCCOnline instructors and staff members on teaching and learning strategies, pedagogy, and technology. 

We invite you to be a part of CCCOnline CONNECT to collaborate with your CCCOnline colleagues and gain new ideas and inspiration for your online teaching. Stay tuned for more details on keynote speakers, break-out presentations, and registration information. 

In addition, we invite you to share your experiences and ideas by presenting at CCCOnline CONNECT. Our instructors' experiences in CCCOnline classrooms are an invaluable resource for all of CCCOnline and we are eager to learn from you. You can submit your presentation proposal by filling out the Call for Proposals form, here: http://media.ccconline.org/ccco/ccconline_connect_conference_2013/connect_2013_callforproposals.docx and emailing the completed form to Sean Renner at sean.renner@cccs.edu. 

We look forward to seeing you at CONNECT this year!

Sean

More MOOC Opportunities This Summer

If you’re interested in the Games Based Learning Summer MOOC opportunities, please find more information here (note the Part I course starts June 3):
http://ccconlinefacultynews.blogspot.com/2013/05/summer-games-mooc.html

Speaking of MOOCs, you may be interested in this recent Chronicle article:
“What Professors Can Learn from ‘Hard Core’ MOOC Students” (Jeffrey R. Young, 5/20/13):
http://chronicle.com/article/What-Professors-Can-Learn-From/139367/?cid=wb

Comments, as always, are welcome in the CCCOnline Community!