NEW JERSEY education officials are working on an ambitious redesign of the state’s public high schools that is intended to better prepare students for college and the work force in the 21st century.
The redesign had called for every student — not just those who are college bound — to study Algebra II, laboratory sciences [...]
Schools Won’t Require Online Class. Yet.
Connecting the Cyber Dots—A New Gathering Place in Cyberspace
By Marsha Haynes
Increasing Interactivity for Greater Community Engagement among Online LearnersAdvances in technology are amazing. More convenient and faster ways of staying connected are developed each year. However, as more institutions adopt new online technology as a means of reaching increasing numbers of students and providing efficient low cost cyber-classrooms, educators and course designers must [...]
About Us
This website is maintained by the California Virtual Campus Professional Development Center. The site was originally developed by Tony Sotos and Joe Georges at El Camino College and was created under the auspices of the Chancellor’s Office for the California Community Colleges. It was later moved to Butte College and redesigned by David Hammond. The [...]
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Notice: There have recently been some changes that are not yet documented here. We will have the new instructions available shortly.
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Developing Successful Online Team Projects: Creating team tasks for depth of learning and not despair
Lynn Wocell
California State University, East Bay
July 29, 2007
The Despair
I know that this email should have come sooner being that the team project is due on Tuesday. I have been paired up to work with [name omitted] on the project. For the past week or so I have been finding it very hard to [...]
Community Colleges Consider Libraries of the Future, Courting the ‘Millennials’
It’s a familiar lament among community-college librarians: When students have access to Google and Wikipedia (and, at this point, most do), they tend to start acting as if their campus libraries don’t even exist.
But a library designed with an eye on the future and a foot in the past can still be a campus focal [...]
The Community College ‘Library of the Future’
It’s a familiar lament among community-college librarians: When students have access to Google and Wikipedia (and, at this point, most do), they tend to start acting as if their campus libraries don’t even exist. …
In a presentation at the League on Innovation’s Conference on Information Technology, Sinclair administrators heralded their own library which recently [...]
Facilitation: the Anti-Lecture
Raise your hand if you have memories of falling asleep in your college level World History 101 class. The sensation of rousing from a peaceful slumber atop your mini-desk/lecture seat because you thought you heard the person next to you snore is not something many of us are likely to soon forget. By wearing your [...]
Online course development: What does it cost?
"Does it cost less to design and develop online teaching and learning today than it did a few years ago? Are the categories of cost different today from the past and from what the costs might be in the future? The costs of developing online programs are significant, yet there are few resources to help [...]
101 redefined
“If some educators have their way… the lecture course will soon occupy the same dustbin of history as the chariot race. ‘I don’t think the solely lecture-based course will survive,’ says Carol A. Twigg, director of the Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. ”And,” she adds, ‘it shouldn’t.’
The freshman [...]