| 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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ITC 2010 Leadership Academy
Portland Maine - July 25-27, 2010
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Join us in this three-day summer workshop in order to:
• Understand your organization and create a sound leadership strategy for your environment
• Develop a leadership model that fits your institution
• Identify and acquire key tools for successful leadership in distance learning
• Gain a network of practitioners
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See the Leadership Academy Web site. Contact Danielle Perry (202/293-3132) to get on the conference mailing list for more information.
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| Upcoming ITC Professional Development Webinars
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Handjiving and LiveScribing: Teaching a Hybrid Developmental Math Course
March 23, 2010 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Donna Gaudet, Faculty, Scottsdale Community College
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Using Interactive Video: Connection, Collaboration, and Communication
March 30, 2010 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenters: Natalie Humphreys, Assistant Department Chair, Gabriela Hogue, Marlene Milroy, Kelly Showalter, and Frances vandenHeuvel, the Office of Distance Education, part of the University of Arkansas system
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It’s Pedagogy, Not Technology: LMS Training Can Address Teaching, Learning and Student Engagement
April 13, 2010 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Debbie Kell, Assistant Dean, Director, The Virtual College and Professional Development, Mercer County Community College
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See the Webinar calendar through June 2010.
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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 to receive this discount.
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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 AACC will not offer any refunds if you have already submitted your registration or payment.
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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.
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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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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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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Instructional Technology Council
One Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 360
Washington, D.C. 20036-1143
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