| The Instructional Technology Council, ITC, provides exceptional leadership and professional development to its network of eLearning experts by advocating, collaborating, researching, and sharing exemplary, innovative practices and potential in learning technologies.
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| The Annual Conference for: Distance Learning Administrators, Distance Learning Faculty, Instructional Designers, Online Media Specialists, Web Course Developers, and Continuing Education Professionals.
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| eLearning 2010 is the friendliest and most comprehensive annual distance learning conference you will find for eLearning practitioners. It is the one place where you will learn who is doing what, what technologies they are using, what works, and what doesn't. Start off the new year with a visit to the friendly, laid-back city of Fort Worth whose tagline, for good reason, is “Cowboys and Culture."
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| eLearning 2010 Home
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Conference Schedule at a Glance
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| Exhibitor and Sponsorship Information
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Final Printed Conference Program
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ITC Submits Comments to FCC on Need for Broadband Access for Community Colleges and Universities
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On Jan. 27, 2010, ITC told the FCC that community colleges and universities need high-speed, high-capacity access to the Internet. The FCC sought public comment for its soon-to-be-released National Broadband Plan "that seeks to ensure that every American has access to broadband capability and establishes clear benchmarks for meeting that goal."
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ITC wrote, "higher education institutions need bandwidth that is far greater than the bandwidth needed by individual households; they need high-speed, high-capacity broadband capabilities to provide robust, quality, instructional programming, in an online environment, to their students who might be located in rural areas, working adults, caregivers, disabled, returning veterans, or simply students who want to earn their educational credentials to expand their job skills, educational and career opportunities." . . .
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See the Full Document
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| Upcoming ITC Professional Development Webinars
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Travel budgets are especially tight this year so ITC has arranged for an amazing group of knowledgeable and experienced eLearning experts to present this fall on a variety of topics to help you administer, design and teach your distance learning courses and program. We keep the cost low as a service to our members - purchase one $35 registration and anyone from your college to access the presentation archive for 60 days after the live event. See the Webinar calendar through March 2010.
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| ITC 2010 Awards for Excellence in eLearning
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| ITC announces the winners for its 2010 Awards for Excellence in eLearning. ITC will recognize these outstanding distance educators at a special luncheon on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 at eLearning 2010 at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Outstanding eLearning Program
University of Maryland University College
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Outstanding Online Course
Captioning and Court Recording: Real Time Theory, Cuyahoga Community College
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Outstanding Blended Course
Math in Society, Clark College
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Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty
Jeff Donovick, Assoc. Professor of Music, St. Petersburg College
Sandra King, Asst. Professor, Communications, Anne Arundel Community College
Melissa Landin, Communications Faculty, Inver Hills Community College
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Outstanding Use of New Technology and/or Delivery System
Classroom Observation via Technology, Robert Raze, St. Petersburg College
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Outstanding Student Services
Bossier Parish Community College
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Outstanding Technical Support and Service
University of Maryland University College
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2010 Distinguished Educators
ITC recognizes the following eLearning faculty members who were nominated by their institutions as exemplary members of their community.
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Steve Dalager, English Faculty, Lake Superior College
Jeff Donovick, Associate Professor of Music, St. Petersburg College
Jeanne Ivy, Provost, Tyler Junior College
Rana Khan, Biotechnology Program, University of Maryland University College
Sandra King, Communications, Anne Arundel Community College
Melissa Landin, Communication Faculty, Inver Hills Community College
Carole Mackewich, Department of Human Development, Clark College
Richard Merryman, Business Division, Jefferson Community College
Sheida Shirvani, Communication Studies, Ohio University-Zanesville
Kelly Showalter, Spanish Instructor, Office of Distance Education, ASMSA
Diana Tuggey, e-Learning Facilitator, e-Read Ohio, The University of Akron
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Upcoming Deadlines for Distance Learning Grant Opportunities
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Broadband Stimulus Funding, NTIA and RUS, Final Round
The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and USDA's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) announced the availability of $4.8 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants and loans to expand broadband access and adoption in America. This is the second funding round aims to help bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, and create jobs.
1. NTIA will make approximately $2.35 billion available for infrastructure projects. Its “comprehensive communities” approach will give top priority to middle mile broadband projects that connect key community anchor institutions –- such as libraries, hospitals, community colleges, universities, and public safety institutions. These projects will leverage resources, promote sustainable community growth, and lay the foundation for reasonably-priced broadband service to consumers and businesses.
2. NTIA plans to award at least $150 million to public computer center projects, which will expand access to broadband service and enhance broadband capacity at public libraries, community colleges, and other institutions that service the general public.
3. NTIA also plans to award at least $100 million for sustainable broadband adoption projects, which include projects to provide broadband education, training, and equipment, particularly to vulnerable population groups where broadband technology has traditionally been underutilized.
NTIA removed the requirement that infrastructure projects connecting community anchor institutions, including community colleges, must be located in unserved or underserved areas, though projects in unserved and underserved areas will receive additional consideration. NTIA also streamlined the online application system to make the process more user-friendly. They reduced the number of attachments to be uploaded with the application, eliminated the proposed funded service area mapping tool, and modified the service area delineations from Census blocks to Census tracts and block groups. The American Library Association has created a helpful Web site.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2010
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Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities; planning and developing prototypes of new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources, including libraries’ and museums’ digital assets; scholarship that examines the philosophical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies; innovative uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and, new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels. Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category. All applicants must propose an innovative approach, method, tool, or idea that has not been used before in the humanities. These grants are modeled, in part, on the “high risk/high reward” paradigm often used by funding agencies in the sciences. NEH is requesting proposals for projects that take some risks in the pursuit of innovation and excellence.
Application Deadline: March 23, 2010
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| For more awards see ITC's Grants and Information Web site
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| $100 Registration Discount to Attend AACC Convention in Seattle, Wash. on April 17-20, 2010
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| Any employee from any ITC-member institution can receive a $100 registration discount to attend the American Association of Community Colleges annual convention in Seattle, Wash. on April 17-20, 2010 -- the base registration fee will be $530 per person, rather than $630. Participants must be institutional members of ITC, but they do not have to be part of the distance learning department to receive this discount. To participate you need to:
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1. Complete the Council Registration Form for each registrant. The base registration does not include meals - purchase tickets to attend these events when you fill out the form.
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| 2. Submit forms and payment directly to AACC, postmarked before Weds., March 17, 2010 -- not to ITC, as you have in the past. AACC will not offer any refunds if you have already submitted your registration or payment to AACC.
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Best Practice Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity in Online Education
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(July 2009) ITC has created this document with WCET and the UT TeleCampus as a resource to our member institutions and the higher education community at large. Thanks go to all of the ITC member institutions that contributed. Please feel free to use this document at your institution - in whole or in part.
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See the Full Document
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2008 Distance Education Survey Results: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges
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| See Full 2008 Distance Education Survey Results
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| • Campuses reported an 11.3 percent increase for distance learning enrollments, while increases in overall campus enrollments averaged less than two percent -- 70 percent of the respondents stated student demand exceeds current distance learning course offerings.
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| • Thirty-one percent of the campuses surveyed are considering switching from Blackboard/WebCT, which had seen a near monopoly in the past. The merger of Blackboard and WebCT has prompted a number of campuses to review their learning management system commitments.
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Fred Lokken, associate dean for the Truckee Meadows Community College WebCollege, authored this study of 139 community colleges. See the 2007 Distance Education Survey Results
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ITC Award for Excellence in eLearning
Outstanding Distance Learning Student
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Elena Larson accepts ITC's 2009 Award for Excellence, Outstanding eLearning Student, at eLearning 2009 in Portland, Oregon on Feb. 23, 2009.
See Video of her Acceptance
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Pamela Himmel accepts ITC's 2008 Award for Excellence, Outstanding eLearning Student, at eLearning 2008 in St. Petersburg, Florida on Feb. 18, 2009.
See Video of her Acceptance
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| "If you’re feeling a little tired and overwhelmed, spend the few minutes watching this video. It represents the best of what we are, and the core of what we’re about. We should all be very proud and humbled." - James Olliver, Provost, Seminole/eCampus, St. Petersburg College
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Celebrate ITC's 30-Year Anniversary
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| ITC was founded in 1977 as a committee of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, the Task Force on the Uses of Mass Media, and later the Instructional Telecommunications Council. This short video documents ITC's first 30 years of growth and progress and includes interviews of four of ITC's 10 charter members: Roger Pool, Dallas County Community College District; Sally Beaty, Intelecom; Jack Pirkey, Tarrant County Community College District; and Leslie Purdy, Coastline Community College. Produced by Blue Ridge Community College.
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| 30-Year Celebration Video
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