Week's End Report - July 22nd

Tip of the Week!

We strongly urge all faculty to subscribe to this blog in order to get timely information regarding system information, training opportunities, program changes, etc., however there also lots of other blogs out there that contain great information for educators. 

Here are just a few of the blogs we recommend checking out:

Daily Edventures: http://dailyedventures.com/ 

Duke Center for Instructional Technology: https://cit.duke.edu/blog/ 

TED-Ed Blog: http://blog.ed.ted.com/ 

Google for Education: http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com/ 

Pearson's Higher Education blog: http://www.pearsoned.com/blog/higher-education-2/ 

Inside Higher Ed maintains a collection of education blogs on their website: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs 
 

Online Instructor Certification

The last day to register for IVYC110-IL (part 2 of the three-part online instructor certification process) is Wednesday, July 27th by 5:00 pm. 

Registering prior to this deadline will enroll faculty in the IVYC110-IL section that begins on Monday, August 1st. This is the last IVYC110-IL section that will finish prior to the beginning of the fall semester. 

If a faculty member is not currently online certified and would like to teach an online course in the fall they MUST successfully complete IVYC110-SP and notify the regional Online Technologies Coordinator prior to the end of the work day on July 27th to get registered for IVYC110-IL.

IncludED Program Changes

To learn more about the changes to the IncludED program and the statewide library of courses, view the following video:

https://youtu.be/eGvQAXaQGY0

The video outlines recent changes to online course content and delivery and provides information regarding how online content may be used in traditional and hybrid courses.

OER Content Teams

C4IT is currently looking for Open Educational Resources (OER) developers. Developers will be selecting content from an array of currently available OER for the following courses:

• COMM101
• ECON201
• ENGL206
• MATH136
• MKTG101

If you are credentialed to teach any of the above listed courses and are interested in participating in the project, apply by clicking here. The project is estimated to last 5-6 months and developers will be paid $2,500 per project.

Questions about this project or the OER content teams can be directed to Adam Vorderstrasse at avorderstrasse@ivytech.edu.

Systems Information

Internet access from campus will be intermittently unavailable from 5 - 10 am on Sunday, July 31st.