Welcome to E-learning at EICCD!
There are lots of exciting things going on with e-learning within our District. Every month, we will post information and announcements concerning e-learning initiatives and newsworthy items from the EICCD to keep you informed.
Dr. Jeff Larson
Dean of the EICCD E-learning Enterprise
As part of a new enrollment initiative, EICCD is looking for 15 instructors to convert their face-to-face courses into a hybrid or blended format integrating the best of campus and online coursework. Instructors who are part of this initiative will have their courses listed in the Fall 2009 Tab (deadline: first week of October, 2009) with special marketing and promotion for these hybrid courses taking place during the Summer and Fall 2009 semesters. These courses will begin with the Spring, 2010 semester.
We are especially interested in hybrid alternatives for our top ten high demand courses. These courses include Composition I, Introduction to Psychology, Public Speaking, Introduction to Computers, Basic Math, General Biology IA, Introduction to Sociology, Compostion II, Elementary Algebra and Elementrary Algebra II.
All courses can be considered. We have funding for 15 courses for Spring, 2010 and another 15 courses for Fall, 2010. If you have been thinking about getting involved in e-learning, this is a great opportunity!
The deadline to sign up for this initiative is June 1, 2009.
21 EICCD faculty attended the annual ICCOC 2009 Spring Conference in West Des Moines this past March. Participants included Heidi Hilbert, Steve Holland, Gary Olson, Beth Wood, Ellie Sweet, Doug Kutzli, Pam Bass, Lori Walljasper, Barb Foster, Kay Steffen, RuthAnn Gallagher, Ken Johnson, Kathy Coiner, Jane Campagna, Cindy Hoogheem, Lillian Phillips, Shirley Turnis, Kris Koch, Ron Serpliss, Lori Welter and Jeff Larson.
More than 50 e-learning workshops were offered in two days. Several EICCD faculty presented workshops. Pam Bass led a workshop that looked into the eCollege Gradebook as a powerful communication tool. Steve Holland and Gary Olson facilitated a session that explored the use of “MyLab’s” as an alternative textbook option for online instructors. Jeff Larson conducted a session for Turnitin users. Lori Walljasper and Doug Kutzli dazzled a group of workshop attendees on setting up Vod and Pod casts.
Workshop participants also heard from two prominent keynote speakers: Dr. Mark Milliron, President and CEO of Catalyze Learning International and from Jeff Borden, Senior Director of Teaching and Learning, eCollege. Thanks for the great support from all of the EICCD online facutly who attended!
Doug Kutzli interviews Heidi Hilbert for an upcoming Podcast at the ICCOC Spring Conference:
Shirley Turnis and RuthAnn Gallagher share a moment before the ICCOC Spring Conference Dinner:
Heidi Hilbert shared this with me. In the Summer of 2001, ICCOC offered 19 sections of fully online courses. However, EICCD could only hold 4 seats in each of the courses with the other seats going to the other ICCOC schools.
For the Summer of 2009, ICCOC is offering 482 sections of fully online courses!
Professors Steve Holland (CCC) and Shirley Turnis (MCC) were recently awarded “E-learning Teachers of the Year” for the Iowa Community College Online Consortium. The announcement was made at the ICCOC’s annual Spring Conference held the third week in March, 2009 in West Des Moines.
Steve and Shirley were selected from a select group of e-learning faculty nominated by other faculty for this award. There were only five finalists selected. Steve was nominated for the design of online College Composition I course and Shirley was nominated for the design of her Elementary Algebra II online course. Both courses reflect excellence in online instructional design and delivery.
Congratulations to Steve and Shirley! This is a truly an outstanding award and we are very proud of their work and dedication to e-learning.
The growth of casual gaming has spawned an unprecedented variety, and quality, of free web-based games. And as the development quality gets ever higher, it attracts more talent, bigger budgets, and more ambitious scopes. Here are five terrific games from independent developers you might have missed the first time around. All of these can be played in your browser, with Flash. Go on, it’s Sunday — waste a little time! Dai Pai Dong: Cooking Mama meets the classic Diner Dash — in Hong Kong! Try to keep up with the picky customers’ demands by cooking to order and serving up beers. Warning: playing before lunch may make you hungry for sauteed crab. 
The Information Age is the age of the knowledge worker. The Connected Age is the age of the web worker. Knowledge workers create and manage information, massaging it into intangible knowledge goods. Web workers create and manage relationships across knowledge goods, hardware, and people. The table, taken from Web Worker Daily’s upcoming book “Connect! Web Worker Daily’s Guide to a New Way of Working” contrasts knowledge work and web work. Of course, in practice individual workers may take a hybrid approach, combining aspects of both.Very interesting! Read more here:
http://gigaom.com/2007/10/06/from-the-information-age-to-the-connected-age/
This article appeared in the April 5th, 2009 Des Moines Register. It was an article about the state of online learning in the community colleges in Iowa. EICCD was part of the article and the reporter spent several hours with Jeff Larson discussing online learning.
"Record enrollment in online courses at Iowa's 15 community colleges is generating tuition revenue and creating opportunities to save money at a time when the schools are facing drastic budget cuts, officials said.More than 75,000 seats were filled in online courses at the state's community colleges in 2007-08. Online enrollment at Iowa's major community colleges over the past three years was up 45 percent, according to analysis by The Des Moines Register."
Another recent report worth looking at is the annual Horizon Report, an ongoing research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within education around the globe. This volume, the Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition, is the second in a new series of regional and sector-based reports, and examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative expression within the environment of pre-college education.
Each edition of the Horizon Report introduces six emerging technologies or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use in the educational community within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years.
Taken as a set, our research indicates that all six of these technologies will significantly impact the choices of learning-focused organizations within the next five years:
1. Mobiles, 2. Cloud Computing, 3. Geo-Everything, 4. The Personal Web, 5. Semantic-Aware Applications, and 6. Smart Objects.
In an annual educational technology survey, students say they want more access to mobile devices and online courses. More than 280,000 K-12 students, 28,000 teachers, 21,000 parents, and 3,000 administrators responded to the online Speak Up survey between October and December 2008.
The report focuses on five areas where schools can better incorporate technology: increasing the use of mobile devices, creating different types of spaces for learning, incorporating Web 2.0 tools into daily instruction, expanding access to digital resources in the classroom, and getting beyond the classroom walls to explore careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Students say there should be more use of mobile devices in their learning. Students' access to mobile electronic devices--including cell phones, laptops, MP3 players, and smart phones--has increased dramatically in the past year, and these students are discovering the "computers in their pockets" can play a significant role in all aspects of learning, the report said.
You can read the report here: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=57889
As part of a new enrollment initiative, EICCD is looking for 15 instructors to convert their face-to-face courses into a hybrid or blended format integrating the best of campus and online coursework. Instructors who are part of this initiative will have their courses listed in the Fall 2009 Tab (deadline: first week of October, 2009) with special marketing and promotion for these hybrid courses taking place during the Summer and Fall 2009 semesters. These courses will begin with the Spring, 2010 semester.
We are especially interested in hybrid alternatives for our top ten high demand courses. These courses include Composition I, Introduction to Psychology, Public Speaking, Introduction to Computers, Basic Math, General Biology IA, Introduction to Sociology, Compostion II, Elementary Algebra and Elementrary Algebra II.
All courses can be considered. We have funding for 15 courses for Spring, 2010 and another 15 courses for Fall, 2010. If you have been thinking about getting involved in e-learning, this is a great opportunity! The deadline to sign up for this initiative is May 1, 2009.
As part of a new enrollment initiative, EICCD is looking for 15 instructors to convert their face-to-face courses into a hybrid or blended format integrating the best of campus and online coursework. Instructors who are part of this initiative will have their courses listed in the Fall 2009 Tab (deadline: first week of October, 2009) with special marketing and promotion for these hybrid courses taking place during the Summer and Fall 2009 semesters. These courses will begin with the Spring, 2010 semester.
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