HCC's online tutoring program addresses the goals of increased access and student success through a self-staffed tutoring service that uses technology. The program launched in 2006 and has since served over 29,000 students through nearly 35,000 hours of tutoring and over 63,000 tutoring sessions. Research found that increased tutoring usage correlated with higher GPAs and that users had higher GPAs than non-users. The program aims to continue improving services and measuring impacts on retention and completion through expanded outreach and tracking of demographic groups and subject areas.
Lessons we are learning through pivoting quickly to fully online learning; Bu...Charles Darwin University
For those institutions who have been specialising in distance education for some time, although they may have had to make some changes, the last few months have not been overly problematic. But for the remaining majority of institutions, there has been a monumental upheaval in how they are now required to conduct business, both for staff and students. Those who have fared better seem to be those who have reasonably mature frameworks in place to mediate their technology-enabled learning (TEL) offerings. That is, they have well established processes that define how they translate what they have in policy, procedures and planning into practice. Such a framework can be found within the COL TEL Benchmarks, that can provide an institution with clear guidelines as to what things need to be in place to ensure a robust and consistent approach to teaching with technology. This presentation will first highlight many of the lessons currently being learned across the higher education sector, it will also ask you to share what you have learned and then we will look at how some of these issues are contained within the COL TEL Benchmarks. Lastly it will make a case for investigating more fully how to use this tool to help your institution ready itself for success in the future.
Opening up practice and resources: Are we nearly there? presented by Allison Littlejohn (Glasgow Caledonian University), Jonathan Worth and Shaun Hides (Coventry University). This session was facilitated by Chris Pegler (Open University).
Jisc conference 2012.
A semi-synchronous approach to critical thinkingJisc
Speakers:
Ninna Makrinov, skills programme coordinator, University of Warwick
Susan Vollmer, learning and digital content officer, University of Warwick
This session will look at the results of a pilot online critical thinking Moodle course offered to students at the University of Warwick. The university adopted an innovative approach to online learning which included the use of H5P interactive presentations and semi-synchronous delivery. Students interacted with the course for around 20 minutes each day over five days and received daily feedback on their reflections.
This session will reflect upon student and practitioner feedback and outline further developments.
Organisational transformation and curriculum change: turning things Jisc
Organisational transformation and curriculum change: Turning things around presented by Professor Mark Stubbs (Manchester Metropolitan University) and facilitated by Pam Parker (City University).
Jisc conference 2012
Speaker: Dale Munday, digital learning facilitator, University of Lancaster.
Enhancing the idea of the VLE to provide an engaging experience is is key for sustaining progression with education technology. Creating rich, persistent conversations makes learning more visible and accessible to the entire class. Teachers can engage students in project-based learning with text, video, and voice using integrations. Harnessing student social interactions allows educators to enhance the learning and provide an engaging space to assess and feedback.
This session will demonstrate opportunities to empower students while helping them develop the skills they'll need to be successful in the future.
Delivering RARPA: a college-wide digital approachJisc
Speakers:
Matthew Bowler, service leader technology, Wiltshire College
Michelle Capes, online learning development officer, Wiltshire College
Simon Bowler, learning technologies and resources manager, Wiltshire College
Clive Carey, learning and skills development coach, Wiltshire College
Supporting all learners to progress and achieve is at the heart of what Wiltshire College do, and for those who support learners on non-accredited programmes with Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement (RARPA), ensuring this is evidenced and monitored accurately is all the more important.
Tasked with developing a digital solution that learners could own, that was intuitive for support staff to manage and provided managers with instant access to insightful data, the Wiltshire College learning technologies team settled on an open source solution which is already delivering positive results since being been introduced across the college.
This session will demonstrate the Wiltshire College RARPA system from the perspective of each group of users; the students managing their own progress, the staff using the system to support their learners and the managers now with a college-wide visibility of progress. In addition the developers will also explain how all of this was achieved, and their ideas for the future.
Lessons we are learning through pivoting quickly to fully online learning; Bu...Charles Darwin University
For those institutions who have been specialising in distance education for some time, although they may have had to make some changes, the last few months have not been overly problematic. But for the remaining majority of institutions, there has been a monumental upheaval in how they are now required to conduct business, both for staff and students. Those who have fared better seem to be those who have reasonably mature frameworks in place to mediate their technology-enabled learning (TEL) offerings. That is, they have well established processes that define how they translate what they have in policy, procedures and planning into practice. Such a framework can be found within the COL TEL Benchmarks, that can provide an institution with clear guidelines as to what things need to be in place to ensure a robust and consistent approach to teaching with technology. This presentation will first highlight many of the lessons currently being learned across the higher education sector, it will also ask you to share what you have learned and then we will look at how some of these issues are contained within the COL TEL Benchmarks. Lastly it will make a case for investigating more fully how to use this tool to help your institution ready itself for success in the future.
Opening up practice and resources: Are we nearly there? presented by Allison Littlejohn (Glasgow Caledonian University), Jonathan Worth and Shaun Hides (Coventry University). This session was facilitated by Chris Pegler (Open University).
Jisc conference 2012.
A semi-synchronous approach to critical thinkingJisc
Speakers:
Ninna Makrinov, skills programme coordinator, University of Warwick
Susan Vollmer, learning and digital content officer, University of Warwick
This session will look at the results of a pilot online critical thinking Moodle course offered to students at the University of Warwick. The university adopted an innovative approach to online learning which included the use of H5P interactive presentations and semi-synchronous delivery. Students interacted with the course for around 20 minutes each day over five days and received daily feedback on their reflections.
This session will reflect upon student and practitioner feedback and outline further developments.
Organisational transformation and curriculum change: turning things Jisc
Organisational transformation and curriculum change: Turning things around presented by Professor Mark Stubbs (Manchester Metropolitan University) and facilitated by Pam Parker (City University).
Jisc conference 2012
Speaker: Dale Munday, digital learning facilitator, University of Lancaster.
Enhancing the idea of the VLE to provide an engaging experience is is key for sustaining progression with education technology. Creating rich, persistent conversations makes learning more visible and accessible to the entire class. Teachers can engage students in project-based learning with text, video, and voice using integrations. Harnessing student social interactions allows educators to enhance the learning and provide an engaging space to assess and feedback.
This session will demonstrate opportunities to empower students while helping them develop the skills they'll need to be successful in the future.
Delivering RARPA: a college-wide digital approachJisc
Speakers:
Matthew Bowler, service leader technology, Wiltshire College
Michelle Capes, online learning development officer, Wiltshire College
Simon Bowler, learning technologies and resources manager, Wiltshire College
Clive Carey, learning and skills development coach, Wiltshire College
Supporting all learners to progress and achieve is at the heart of what Wiltshire College do, and for those who support learners on non-accredited programmes with Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement (RARPA), ensuring this is evidenced and monitored accurately is all the more important.
Tasked with developing a digital solution that learners could own, that was intuitive for support staff to manage and provided managers with instant access to insightful data, the Wiltshire College learning technologies team settled on an open source solution which is already delivering positive results since being been introduced across the college.
This session will demonstrate the Wiltshire College RARPA system from the perspective of each group of users; the students managing their own progress, the staff using the system to support their learners and the managers now with a college-wide visibility of progress. In addition the developers will also explain how all of this was achieved, and their ideas for the future.
Learning Models Evolve with Blended Learning on the RiseBlackboard
K-12 schools and districts understand that a personalized education experience increases student achievement and success, therefore many institutions are harnessing online learning technology to create blended learning programs to help meet diverse student needs. Although blended learning models differ drastically among K-12 institutions and are a product of the unique goals and challenges of the school, the importance of quality and accountability pertains to all. Join us for this webinar featuring Susan Patrick, President and CEO of iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning) and K-12 school district leaders for a discussion about how K-12 institutions across the globe are successfully implementing diverse blended learning models that maintain quality and accountability and enable student success.
Susan Patrick, President and CEO, International Association for K-12 Online Learning; Amy Hance, Instructional Technology Specialist, Collier County Public Schools
Bringing together internal and external students on Blackboard - Brett Fyfiel...Blackboard APAC
With the recent redevelopment of postgraduate courses in project management for the School of Civil Engineering and the Built Environment, new challenges were faced to make units more inclusive of a variety of enrolment preferences. The short term ambitions for the courses included developing units that are delivered both facetoface, and entirely online and have the potential to be scaled to meet the growing demand for continuing professional education. To ensure that students could join either facetoface or online offerings of the same units, the implementation team brought internal and external cohorts together on the same unit sites on Blackboard. The units are currently under evaluation but some early learnings may provide insight into new approaches to blended learning, and how these approaches have facilitated new ways of teaching and learning through tentative academic culture change.
Delivered at Innovate and Educate: Teaching and Learning Conference by Blackboard. 24 -27 August 2015 in Adelaide, Australia.
Carol McQuiggan and Larry Ragan's Faculty Development: Learning and Growing!Alexandra M. Pickett
SLN SOLsummit 2009 presentation - by Carol McQuiggan and Larry Ragan
http://slnsolsummit2009.edublogs.org
This session will highlight the faculty development design and approach in order to serve the needs of the faculty participating in course delivery via the Penn State World Campus.
Adoption of Blackboard in the ELICOS system: Innovating and Augmenting Qualit...Blackboard APAC
In 2016 the Centre for English Teaching (CET) launched Blackboard for its university pathway courses (DEC) as part of an initiative to innovate and transform them into high quality blended Academic English language programs that would support students in developing both academic skills and awareness of the technology and systems required to excel during the first semester at university. While LMS use is standard practice in higher education, for the English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) sector the integration of an online platform is still new territory and there is great potential for innovation within teaching and learning practices. Moreover, the unique context allows for a fresh perspective on how Blackboard, at its core, is a dynamic and flexible platform in teaching and learning practices that fosters communities of practice and consolidates traditional educational practices.
The implementation of Blackboard across university pathways courses at CET faced two major hurdles. To begin with, international students were less familiar with the culture and expectations surrounding LMS use at tertiary level and the nature of independent learning. Secondly, teaching staff had varying degrees of proficiency and experience in using technology in the classroom. Dealing with the challenge of educating, immersing and empowering both teachers and students simultaneously in their use of Blackboard as an integrated and powerful tool in teaching and learning raised numerous questions and helped gain valuable insights into adoption and adaption of technology and the opportunity for creative disruption. Grounding innovations in solid pedagogy, integrating technology and independent learning with in-class interaction and making learning objectives clear to both students and teachers enabled the successful uptake of Blackboard and allowed for greater support and autonomy for both teachers and students.
A ceLTIc project webinar. The ceLTIc project shows how to enable LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) connectors to build a flexible infrastructure.This session will discuss how the JISC-funded ceLTIc:sharing project is evaluating the use of LTI to provide a shared service for institutions interested in evaluating WebPA. It will include a demonstration of linking to the tool from Blackboard Learn 9 and Moodle, as well as how the outcomes service along with the unofficial memberships and setting extensions are being used to enhance this integration in a VLE-independent way.
Jisc conference 2012
Clive Young and Nataša Perovic
Digital Education, UCL - University College London
Presentation given to the Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile on 17 and 18 November 2016
Designing Active Learning in Moodle – a preview of the Learning Designer tools Eileen Kennedy, D. N. Dimakopoulos, Diana Laurillard
Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014
www.moodlemoot.ie
The critical role of teachers in optimizing technologies for open learningalanwylie
Keynote presentation by Diana Laurillard, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, for the DEHub/ODLAA Education 2011 to 2021- Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning the (14 to 18 February 2011).
The IC Who "Lived" Me, Transitioning from implementing D2L to operationsD2L Barry
2019 D2L Connection: Dublin Edition
4th annual European D2L Connection; a professional learning opportunity for educators, corporate training professionals, and D2L employees.
Wednesday-Thursday, October 9-10, 2019 at O’Reilly Hall, University College Dublin (UCD)
Track 2 (User Enablement): The IC who lived me, Jon Krochmalnek, Senior Manager Implementation Services, D2L
Speaker: Gordon Duffy-McGhie, director - teaching, learning and student development, Middlesbrough College.
This session will explore how digital stories can be used to create dynamic learning, teaching and assessment resources that can more actively engage students in learning through increased participation.
You will get to examine some practical examples of ‘the seven elements of digital storytelling’, and evaluate the role digital stories can play in creating ubiquitous learning experiences.
D2L as a Training Platform for Faculty: Lessons LearnedD2L Barry
Webinar:
Date:Apr 7, 2020
Time:3:00 PM ET
Duration:1 hour
Presenters:
Archie L. Williams, Ph.D., Sharee’ Lawrence, Denise Sutton, Dr. Tamara Payne; all of Fort Valley State University
Be part of the ongoing dialogue on the higher education opportunities in our community.
Houston Community College plays a vital role in providing access to quality education and in significantly impacting our region’s economy. HCC leadership will present its Long-Range Facilities and Finance Plan to enhance programs and services.
We welcome your input on the plan for our community as we work together to fulfill our vision for the future.
Learning Models Evolve with Blended Learning on the RiseBlackboard
K-12 schools and districts understand that a personalized education experience increases student achievement and success, therefore many institutions are harnessing online learning technology to create blended learning programs to help meet diverse student needs. Although blended learning models differ drastically among K-12 institutions and are a product of the unique goals and challenges of the school, the importance of quality and accountability pertains to all. Join us for this webinar featuring Susan Patrick, President and CEO of iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning) and K-12 school district leaders for a discussion about how K-12 institutions across the globe are successfully implementing diverse blended learning models that maintain quality and accountability and enable student success.
Susan Patrick, President and CEO, International Association for K-12 Online Learning; Amy Hance, Instructional Technology Specialist, Collier County Public Schools
Bringing together internal and external students on Blackboard - Brett Fyfiel...Blackboard APAC
With the recent redevelopment of postgraduate courses in project management for the School of Civil Engineering and the Built Environment, new challenges were faced to make units more inclusive of a variety of enrolment preferences. The short term ambitions for the courses included developing units that are delivered both facetoface, and entirely online and have the potential to be scaled to meet the growing demand for continuing professional education. To ensure that students could join either facetoface or online offerings of the same units, the implementation team brought internal and external cohorts together on the same unit sites on Blackboard. The units are currently under evaluation but some early learnings may provide insight into new approaches to blended learning, and how these approaches have facilitated new ways of teaching and learning through tentative academic culture change.
Delivered at Innovate and Educate: Teaching and Learning Conference by Blackboard. 24 -27 August 2015 in Adelaide, Australia.
Carol McQuiggan and Larry Ragan's Faculty Development: Learning and Growing!Alexandra M. Pickett
SLN SOLsummit 2009 presentation - by Carol McQuiggan and Larry Ragan
http://slnsolsummit2009.edublogs.org
This session will highlight the faculty development design and approach in order to serve the needs of the faculty participating in course delivery via the Penn State World Campus.
Adoption of Blackboard in the ELICOS system: Innovating and Augmenting Qualit...Blackboard APAC
In 2016 the Centre for English Teaching (CET) launched Blackboard for its university pathway courses (DEC) as part of an initiative to innovate and transform them into high quality blended Academic English language programs that would support students in developing both academic skills and awareness of the technology and systems required to excel during the first semester at university. While LMS use is standard practice in higher education, for the English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) sector the integration of an online platform is still new territory and there is great potential for innovation within teaching and learning practices. Moreover, the unique context allows for a fresh perspective on how Blackboard, at its core, is a dynamic and flexible platform in teaching and learning practices that fosters communities of practice and consolidates traditional educational practices.
The implementation of Blackboard across university pathways courses at CET faced two major hurdles. To begin with, international students were less familiar with the culture and expectations surrounding LMS use at tertiary level and the nature of independent learning. Secondly, teaching staff had varying degrees of proficiency and experience in using technology in the classroom. Dealing with the challenge of educating, immersing and empowering both teachers and students simultaneously in their use of Blackboard as an integrated and powerful tool in teaching and learning raised numerous questions and helped gain valuable insights into adoption and adaption of technology and the opportunity for creative disruption. Grounding innovations in solid pedagogy, integrating technology and independent learning with in-class interaction and making learning objectives clear to both students and teachers enabled the successful uptake of Blackboard and allowed for greater support and autonomy for both teachers and students.
A ceLTIc project webinar. The ceLTIc project shows how to enable LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) connectors to build a flexible infrastructure.This session will discuss how the JISC-funded ceLTIc:sharing project is evaluating the use of LTI to provide a shared service for institutions interested in evaluating WebPA. It will include a demonstration of linking to the tool from Blackboard Learn 9 and Moodle, as well as how the outcomes service along with the unofficial memberships and setting extensions are being used to enhance this integration in a VLE-independent way.
Jisc conference 2012
Clive Young and Nataša Perovic
Digital Education, UCL - University College London
Presentation given to the Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile on 17 and 18 November 2016
Designing Active Learning in Moodle – a preview of the Learning Designer tools Eileen Kennedy, D. N. Dimakopoulos, Diana Laurillard
Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014
www.moodlemoot.ie
The critical role of teachers in optimizing technologies for open learningalanwylie
Keynote presentation by Diana Laurillard, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, for the DEHub/ODLAA Education 2011 to 2021- Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning the (14 to 18 February 2011).
The IC Who "Lived" Me, Transitioning from implementing D2L to operationsD2L Barry
2019 D2L Connection: Dublin Edition
4th annual European D2L Connection; a professional learning opportunity for educators, corporate training professionals, and D2L employees.
Wednesday-Thursday, October 9-10, 2019 at O’Reilly Hall, University College Dublin (UCD)
Track 2 (User Enablement): The IC who lived me, Jon Krochmalnek, Senior Manager Implementation Services, D2L
Speaker: Gordon Duffy-McGhie, director - teaching, learning and student development, Middlesbrough College.
This session will explore how digital stories can be used to create dynamic learning, teaching and assessment resources that can more actively engage students in learning through increased participation.
You will get to examine some practical examples of ‘the seven elements of digital storytelling’, and evaluate the role digital stories can play in creating ubiquitous learning experiences.
D2L as a Training Platform for Faculty: Lessons LearnedD2L Barry
Webinar:
Date:Apr 7, 2020
Time:3:00 PM ET
Duration:1 hour
Presenters:
Archie L. Williams, Ph.D., Sharee’ Lawrence, Denise Sutton, Dr. Tamara Payne; all of Fort Valley State University
Be part of the ongoing dialogue on the higher education opportunities in our community.
Houston Community College plays a vital role in providing access to quality education and in significantly impacting our region’s economy. HCC leadership will present its Long-Range Facilities and Finance Plan to enhance programs and services.
We welcome your input on the plan for our community as we work together to fulfill our vision for the future.
HCC will be a leader in providing high quality, innovative education leading to student success and completion of workforce and academic programs. We will be responsive to community needs and drive economic development in the communities we serve.
Skills for Prosperity: Using OER to support nationwide change in KenyaBeck Pitt
This presentation on the FCDO funded Skills for Prosperity Kenya (SFPK) project was presented at OER23 in Inverness, Scotland on 5 April 2023 by Fereshte Goshtasbpour and Beck Pitt.
Find out more about SFPK: https://iet.open.ac.uk/projects/skills-for-prosperity-kenya#overview
Skills for Prosperity: Using OER to support nationwide change in KenyaFereshte Goshtasbpour
As a key pathway to improving access to higher education in Kenya, the development and enhancement of online education has been prioritised by the country’s government and is reflected in the country’s strategic plans, including the National Education Sector’s Strategic Plan 2018-22. To facilitate this development and enhancement, studies have suggested capacity building for university staff and development of their digital competencies.
To this end, a nationwide capacity development programme (Digital Education for Universities) was designed and delivered to 254 selected educators, managers and support staff in Kenyan universities as a part of the Skills for Prosperity Kenya programme. The initiative ran across 37 public universities and was based on an existing openly licensed course “Take Your Teaching Online”, which was reused, repurposed and localised to offer accessible online professional development.
This presentation presents findings from a mixed-methods evaluative study of the initiative, informed by data from a post-training survey (n=120), semi-structured interviews with 30 participants and focus groups with four university teams 15-18 months after the training. The study identified impacts of this OER on the digital competencies and practices of three groups of staff – educators, managers and support staff. It also identified areas in which substantial change has already emerged as a result of the course.
When forced into a corner we do have options: I suggest we choose to be activ...Charles Darwin University
A presentation to the English Australia Ed Tech Symposium - Plenary Address.
Abstract: Those institutions that have pivoted rapidly from teaching face-to face to teaching fully online have learned many lessons over the last 18 months, both good and bad. But for some, this has been nothing new, instead it’s simply been business as usual. We have seen that those who fared better have well established frameworks in place to mediate their technology-enhanced learning offerings. That is, they have recognised processes that define how they translate what they have in policy, procedures and planning into practice. Such a framework can be found within a number of quality tools, that are designed to provide institutions with clear guidelines as to what need to be in place to facilitate a robust and consistent approach to teaching with technology. Once present, it makes it easier to undertake online teaching that does more than just mimic face-to-face practice, providing a robust platform to allow innovative pedagogies to thrive. Typically, this means the online learning has, or can become far more, active, collaborative and authentic. This presentation with share some of the things that have been observed across the higher education sector over the last 18 moths that we can all learn from.
DREAM 2017 | Faculty as Drivers of College Reform EffortsAchieving the Dream
Three of Achieving the Dream’s funded learning initiatives – the Open Education Resources Degree Initiative, Engaging Adjunct Faculty Initiative, and InSpark Network-- are creating faculty led teams to drive curriculum and pedagogy reform and to engage a wider swath of faculty – both full and part time, in institution wide reform efforts.
During this workshop, participants:
* Learned about strategies these colleges are using to give faculty greater ownership of the completion agenda.
* Completed a readiness survey to assess their college’s current policies and practices for engaging faculty in institution-wide reform work
* Developed a draft plan for engaging more faculty in reform efforts at their campuses
Co-designing a global pd program for 120 Navitas collegesLearningandTeaching
Transforming the student learning experience relies on the capabilities of our exceptional teachers. Learning and Teaching Services has launched Teaching Excellence at Navitas (TEN) - a strategic and innovative approach to the delivery and management of professional development at Navitas.
In these slides, Pauline Farrell and Christina Del Medico outline the co-design process of TEN.
JISC project AWC Students for Webinar Employability Skills - BETT 2013 V2Ellen Lessner
This is a brief presentation which was given at the BETT exhibition 2013 about our JISC Advance project on teaching students how to run a webinar to increase their employability skills. 4 JISC Advance FE and Skills projects presented information at a workshop.
This webinar looked at some free tools that providers can use to support learners in the workplace.
These tools were for:
sharing resources with learners
communicating with learners
encouraging collaboration
assessment and tracking
supporting a blended approach to learning
and included overviews of Edmodo, Course Sites, Canvas, Livebinders, Wordpress.
Aimed especially at Work based learning providers that may not have access to a learning platform such as Moodle
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
2. About Houston Community College . . .
• Educates more than 75,000 students per semester
• 1st for international student enrollment among U.S. community
colleges
• Highly diverse student population:
% Student Demographics by Ethnicity
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Afr-Amer Hispanic Asian White Other
1
3. What Were We Looking to Do?
Use Online Tutoring
to Increase:
Access Success
2
4. Use Technology. Don’t Let it Use You!
“While technology is not a
panacea, it must be an
integral part of any
redesign focused on
increased completion.”
Nodine, T., Venezia, A., and
Bracco, K. (2011) Changing Course:
A Guide to Increasing Student
Completion in Community Colleges
3
5. Operational Procedures Loop
Develop a plan to implement
service and measure the impact of
online tutoring on student success.
Implement service Implement
and conduct improvements,
quantitative conduct additional
research. research.
Assess results of
the program.
4
6. Research Findings
• 937 tutoring sessions (units)
observed
• For every one-unit increase in
tutoring usage per
semester, student GPA increased
by approximately .05 points.
• Among all students observed:
GPA
Service Users 2.915
Non-Users 2.685
5
7. Future Recommendations
for Research
Track
Increased
Demographic
Outreach
Groups
Future
Research
Study Effect on
Track Subject
Retention and
Areas
Completion
6
8. Summary
Online Tutoring:
• Addresses two of the primary commitments/tenets of the
community college – increased access and student success
• Addresses a large, diverse student population
• Uses technology instead of letting technology use us
• Implements the HCC institutional effectiveness model
• Uses research to validate effectiveness of the service and
plan for the future
7
9. And so it began …
• 2003 - Northwest College and Distance
Ed began using an external online
tutoring service.
• April, 2006 - The Academic
Dean, Southwest College, asked
English tutoring supervisor to
investigate doing the same.
• April, 2006 – Meeting held with Tutors
“R” Us sales rep and several English
teachers. Problems with oversight
uncovered. “Why can’t we do it
ourselves?”
• Sept. 11, 2006 – We went live.
8
10. Understanding HCC
To understand the complexity we had to
overcome in order to develop our online
tutoring program,
it is necessary to visualize the organizational
structure of the institution.
9
11. Basic Numbers
In September 2006, it took us 11 days to receive 100 papers.
Today, we average about 100 submissions per day.
Since September 11, 2006 …
• 29,448 students have registered and used the system.
• Tutors have worked 34,865 hours.
• Tutors have responded to 63,226 student submissions.
10
12. Challenges
1. Money
2. Territoriality
3. Supervision
4. 14 different schedules at 14 tutoring centers
5. 5 different organizational modes
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13. Challenges (continued)
6. Varying skill sets from tutors
7. Varying levels of supervision and oversight
8. No coordination among programs
9. Minimal record keeping
10. To get started, we had to get the support of…
Five academic deans,
Five workforce deans,
Five student service deans,
Five presidents,
Five English department chairs, and
Five English tutoring supervisors.
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14. Our Pre-Launch Goals
• Make English tutoring available
all the time to everyone.
• Increase student’s skills and
comfort levels.
• Save overhead and increase
efficiency, thus making more
money available for tutor
salaries.
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15. Critical Decisions
Technology
We choose to work with
Askonline.net, a company that only
provides tutoring support technology. It
offers a variety of
formats, archiving, reporting and tech
support. We look at Askonline as a
partner, not just a vendor.
Content (Tutors)
We choose to hire current and recent ex-
HCC faculty as tutors.
Marketing
We choose to market ourselves very
aggressively among all our constituent
groups. 14
16. Our Constituents
Students
Faculty
HCC in General
The Online Tutoring Profession
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17. Money Matters
When all the costs are added up…
Self-staffed online tutoring costs
less than externally-staffed for-hire
companies, and the non-monetary
rewards are so much greater.
As a result of our increasing
efficiency and knowledge…
Our per-contact costs have fallen
from $12.65 / contact in fiscal
2008/2009 to $10.23 today.
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18. Find-a-Tutor
The Chancellor’s Innovation Fund
provided a small grant so we could develop
a searchable database of all tutoring at HCC.
(Screenshots of Find-a-Tutor can be found in your packets.)
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19. The Tutoring Toolbar
We developed a toolbar that allows for consistency and
speed in commenting on papers.
We share this toolbar with faculty at HCC and schools
around the country that use self-staffed online tutoring.
(The toolbar and an explanation of the buttons can be found in your packet.)
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20. Summary
Managed appropriately, online tutoring is an
economical, efficient, personal and professional answer to
student needs,
and it works!
Online tutoring is the future! 19
Editor's Notes
Use asynchronous tutoring. Maintain a reasonable, stated turn-around time.Hire tutors with a variety of areas of expertise (ESL and developmental English through literature).Destigmatize tutoring through anonymity.Increase technological skills through computer usage, consistent protocols, and in-person and on-line orientations.Encourage time management through the use of asynchronous tutoring.Free up campus “real estate” for revenue -generating classes since online tutors work from home. Pay online tutors only for the time they work, so there is no “down time.”Add and delete tutors and subjects as needed.
Insource or outsource?Synchronous, asynchronous, or both? Platform / communication types?Tech support - internal or externaInsource or outsource? Peer, faculty, other?If insourced, internal or external?Training?Hiring tutors in unknown areas?Supervising unfamiliar subjects? Getting help!Where does the new program fit on the octopus? Reporting?