Instructional Technology Council

Limited to 25 participants. Application Deadline: May 31, 2013 

This year’s three-day ITC Leadership Academy will be in beautiful downtown Buffalo, New York at Erie Community College. Planning for the future, and motivating a team to join you along the way, are the hallmarks of a successful leader. Incorporating hands-on and scenario-based experiences under the guidance of nationally-recognized eLearning champions, the ITC 2013 Distance Education Leadership Academy will enable you to identify and enhance your leadership skills. Participants will return to campus with an individual learning and leadership plan.

The agenda for the 2013 Academy is participant-driven and includes readings and online discussion work prior to meeting in Minneapolis.  The face-to-face meetings will include three days filled with discussions with eLearning experts and practitioners, hand's on activities, group work and reflection.  Limited to 25 participants. The application deadline: May 31, 2012.

How to Enhance Meaningful Participation In Discussion Forums
May 21, 2013 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenters: Gregory Travis, Director Graduate Psychology, Mount St. Mary's College, Cynthia Alexander, Distance Education Coordinator & Department Chair, Educational Technology, Cerritos College

Thinking Outside the Box with Your Course Management System
June 4, 2013 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenters: Mary J. McCoy, Library Director, and Dr. Sribhagyam Srinivasan, Instructional Designer, Lamar State College–Orange

An Arsenal of Course Design Tools for an Army of One
June 11, 2013 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenters: Heather Dawson, Instructional Designer, and Nikki Massaro-Kauffman, Interface Designer, Penn State University

Register to attend one or all of these Webinar presentations online.  Read the descriptions or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at 202-293-3132 if you have any questions.

ITC's Summer 2013 Newsletter includes articles about distance education projects and steps faculty, instructors and staff are taking to offer their students exceptional eLearning experiences.

• Tracking the Use of Tablets in Community Colleges by ITC’s New Initiative Committee
• Next Step: State Legislatures Approve State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) by Christine Mullins, Instructional Technology Council
• Providing Library Resources and Services to Online Students by Amy Weinfurter, Instructional Technology Council
• Embedded Librarian: Fostering Research Skills in Online Classes by Julie Cornett and Lisa Fuller, Cerro Coso Community College
• Formatting Information to Maximize Learning by Tom Lombardo, Ed.D., Rock Valley College
• Seven Ways to Create an Engaging Online Science Course by Peter Jeschofnig, Hands on Labs
• School of Open: Free Online Courses about Open Content, Tools, and Practices by Jane Park, Creative Commons
• JITTER - Just in Time Training Education and Resource by Sue Dion and Rebecca Graetz, Inver Hills Community College
• Welcome to ITC's Newest Members - Summer 2013

Please submit a short article for our upcoming Fall 2013 newsletter issue. The deadline is August 2, 2013.  Please include photos or graphics with your article.

Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges
April 2013, Instructional Technology Council

In Focus: The Year in Review 2013: The Great Recession Continues

Recovery from the Great Recession has been slow and elusive. Most campus administrators have survived the worst of the recession, with no further cuts made to their department funding levels, but they have only experienced meager attempts to increase budget allocations. In its recent survey report, the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) noted that, “although enrollment stabilized in 2012, the reduction in state and local support combined with an increase in inflation contributed to a nine percent decrease in state and local support per student in constant dollars from 2011. Per student support in 2012 is $5,896, the lowest level in the 25 years.”

Participants in this ITC survey reported that distance education enrollments grew by 6.52 percent from fall 2011 to fall 2012. This pace was slower than in previous years (fall 2007 to 2008 saw a 22 percent increase), but the increase distance education saw surpassed the overall 2.64 percent decline in student enrollment that the entire student population (including those enrolled in face-to-face classes) at colleges experienced.

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