MITE is Proud to Announce the Official Launch of HippoCampus - www.hippocampus.org
On September 13, 2007, MITE officially launched HippoCampus, a free interactive homework help site designed for students and teachers. Teachers will have the ability to create their own customized pages with just the content they want their students to view. They can also add bookmarks and custom announcements. Over the next several months, MITE will continue to add features that will make the site more useful for teachers and students. Click here to view the press release.
Conversations from the Field: part II
In the second of this continuing series by Bob Threlkeld, this paper addresses the faculty point of view of online learning and course development. Bob also presents two case studies from schools with different approaches to course development.
NROC Network Advisory Panel Summit a Huge Success!
On October 3 - 6, 2006, NROC held its annual Advisory Panel Summit at the offices of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park. The Advisory Panel includes leaders in the online education community from institutions across the country. After two days of insightful discussions, the Advisory Panel members left with a new understanding of the NROC Network and the importance of their role, and the NROC staff came away with outstanding recommendations for advancing the mission of NROC.
Launch of the NROC Network - www.nrocnetwork.org
On August 1, the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education will launch its new member community at www.nrocnetwork.org. This collaborative site will provide NROC members a central location to go to find technical support, interact with colleagues, attend webinars, find articles and tech tips, as well as a variety of other resources.
Social Authoring Collaborations
In August, the NROC Network is launching its social authoring project with two teams of faculty who will work on collaboratively authoring online courses for use in online and hybrid introductory psychology and anatomy and physiology courses. The teams will be using online collaboration tools through nrocnetwork.org and opencourse.org to contribute, review and organize course objects.
NROC's Charter Member/Advisory Summit
On October 4-6, the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) will be having its annual Member/Advisory Summit in Palo Alto, California. Held at the offices of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the summit will bring together leaders from around the nation to discuss the direction of online learning. This year’s participants will include Charter Members of the NROC Network, the online community recently launched by MITE. Topics will include implementing NROC on campus, social authoring projects, membership opportunities, expanding the NROC Network and more.
22nd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning
August 2-4, 2006
Madison, Wisconsin
Robert Threlkeld, author of the Conversation from the Field series, will be presenting his latest research findings.
Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University
September 27-29, 2006
Ruth Rominger and Paul Stacey of BC campus will be discussing OER and social authoring models.
Conversations from the Field
In the first feature: "Conversations from the Field," the former Dean of Distance Learning at Cal State Fresno, Bob Threlkeld, shares insights and reports from interviews with over 50 administrators, thought leaders and distance learning directors about the state of online education. Bob will publish topical reports and write a monthly column based on his conversations and research. Read Bob's first report, "Online Education in Community Colleges," at www.nrocnetwork.org
Introducing Quality Course Guidelines
The Monterey Institute has developed two sets of guidelines for quality online course evaluation and development. The Online Course Evaluation Project (www.edutools.info) is a set of guidelines that expert reviewer teams use to evaluate existing courses submitted for review. Reviews may be privately commissioned for independent assessment and feedback, or made publicly available to other institutions searching for sources of online courses to adopt.
The National Repository of Online Course Guidelines shape the development and redevelopment of courses that make up the NROC library. These guidelines, based on learning theory and best practices in online education, cover ten essential domains and describe how to create effective high-quality online learning experiences. In August, members of the NROC Network will be participating in online discussions and training session about using the guidelines in their institutions.
Collaborating for Quality
Ruth Rominger, Director of Learning Design at Monterey Institute for Technology and Education presented with Judy Lowe, Director of the Center for Distributed Education at Chattanooga State Technical College, on the topic of "Collaborating for Quality: One Road to Successful Online Course Development” at the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development hosted by the University of Texas, Austin on May 27-31, 2006. Judy Lowe is collaborating with MITE on the National Repository of Online Courses, producing courses at CSTCC for inclusion in the repository of courses. CSTCC's first course contribution is Religions of the World.
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