Back by Popular Demand: College Coupon Codes for PD!

Our team is geared up for spring! Our Spring 2021 courses are now open for enrollment and our team is working on meeting your needs in the year ahead!

To help support the growing need for professional development across the CCC system, we are bringing back the option for colleges to purchase bulk enrollments (in the form of coupon codes) for faculty and staff to participate in the award-winning online professional development courses offered by @ONE.

REQUESTING COUPON CODES

To order 10 (minimum) or more coupon codes for faculty to enroll in courses, you will need to complete a request form. To complete the form, you’ll need to have the following information:

The number of coupon codes (approximately) your college is interested in purchasing.
The course(s) you think faculty will apply the coupons toward. (The enrollment fee for the 12-week Online Teaching and Design course is $255; all other four-week courses are $85).
Whether the college will pay by credit card or invoice. (In the case of invoicing, you will need to provide a W-9 from your college when completing the form.)
A contact in your college’s business services office who can actively assist in the payment process.

PURCHASING AND PAYMENTS

Prior to completing the form, we recommend that you contact your campus business services office to discuss how payment will be processed and obtain written confirmation about the payment process from the campus purchasing office, business services office, dean, or VP. A tracking sheet will be shared between your college and CVC/@ONE to track coupon use for enrollments. Colleges will be invoiced monthly as the promotional codes are used, with payments due to Foothill-DeAnza (FHDA) within 60 days.

DISTRIBUTING CODES AND TRACKING

It is the college's responsibility to manage the promotional codes. When giving out coupon codes, please inform your colleagues that: :

The coupon code is intended for one-time use and should not be shared with others. Doing so can result in extra charges to the college which could be charged back to the individual.
For tracking purposes, participants must enroll in the course using his/her college email address

Faculty who enroll but later decide that they need to drop will need to complete the drop process PRIOR to the first day of class or the college will be charged the enrollment fee; please make sure your faculty know, if their plans change and they no longer are planning to remain in the course they need to drop immediately.

SUMMARY

Coupon codes are a great way for colleges to support faculty and staff participation in professional development. If you have any questions about this service, please contact Stacey Carrasco, Senior Program Coordinator, at support@cvc.edu.

The Learning Never Stops: Preparing to Teach in an Emergency

The Learning Never Stops: Preparing to Teach in an Emergency

Emergency power shut-offs. Fire evacuations. Pandemic quarantines.

The list of emergencies that could require you to temporarily move your course online seems to be growing every day. CVC-OEI provides a robust set of instructional resources for Canvas and online course design that can aid faculty, administrators, and instructional support staff with the transition of on-campus courses into the distance education modality.

Don't wait for disaster to strike - check out these resources and prepare now.

CVC-OEI Emergency Preparedness Resources: Planning for uninterrupted instruction and student support in the event on-campus courses need to temporarily move online.

Course Design Rubric: The CVC-OEI Course Design Rubric can be used as a checklist for instructors who are moving instruction from the classroom to the Canvas common course management system. The Rubric guides instructors on setting up a course with clear navigation, regular effective contact, effective assessments, and accessibility compliance.

Canvas Support Portal: This one-stop resource includes links to the CCC Canvas Home Base, a Canvas Community where users can access text and video user guides and post questions to the Canvas Community.

Byte Sized Canvas Videos: These short, desktop video tutorials provide pedagogical and technological tips on the use of Canvas.

Student to Student Interactions This Pocket PD Guide shows instructors how to meet the student-student interaction requirement that is now part of the Title 5 Education Code for California Community College Distance Education courses (Instructor Contact, Section 55204).

Adoptable Courses: Colleges needing to quickly prepare faculty to teach online in the case of an emergency can download courses from CVC-OEI/@ONE and adapt them to use locally. Fourteen “CVC-OEI Adoptable” courses can be found in Canvas Commons, including Introduction to Online Teaching & Learning, Introduction to Course Design, and Introduction to Designing for Accessibility.

Digital Learning Day 2020 Update

The CVC-OEI will not be coordinating a centralized CCC Digital Learning Day program in February 2020. However, there are many ways your college can still be part of this national event. Here are a few ideas:

Use the @ONE Teaching with Adobe Spark Pocket PD Guide to coordinate a group viewing of the archive, Making Creativity SPARKle in Teaching and Learning, view examples of Spark videos, and challenge faculty to create a 2-3 minute video clarifying a sticky concept from their course.
Use the @ONE Student-to-Student Interactions Pocket PD Guide to present an overview of the value of social learning online and design creative ice breakers with faculty using the samples shared in the guide.
Use the @ONE Teaching with Google Maps Pocket PD Guide to coordinate a group viewing of the archive, Mapping Content and Contexts with My Maps and Tour Builder by Google, and then challenge faculty to contribute to your own collaborative map or design a personalized tour of a location that is relevant to their course content.
Keep your eyes on the national Digital Learning Day map and attend a nearby event.

If you have any questions, please send an email to support@cvc.edu.

Winners of OLC Award For Excellence In Faculty Development For Online Teaching

This week, at the Online Learning Consortium Accelerate conference, the Professional Development Team of the California Virtual Campus-Online Education Initiative is being honored with the 2019 OLC Award For Excellence In Faculty Development For Online Teaching.

This award recognizes an OLC member institution that has developed and delivered an outstanding, comprehensive program for faculty professional development in online teaching. Please join me in congratulating the @ONE team, who support student success in the California Community Colleges (CCC) every day through the development of strong, effective online teachers:

Stacey Carrasco, Senior Program Coordinator
Karen Oeh, Program Coordinator
Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty Mentor for Online Teaching & Learning
Helen Graves, Instructional Designer
Cheryl Chapman, Instructional Designer
Shawn Valcárcel, Instructional Designer

We also want to recognize the “A-Team” - the accessibility specialists who have been working with us since 2016 to make hundreds of online courses from across the system more equitable for students with disabilities:

Marisa McKnees
Shawn Jordison
Mark Mintz

The talented team above could not serve 60,000 CCC educators across 72 districts without a real online network of educators bringing their expertise, passion, and dedication to the services we provide. Our course facilitators and our Course Design Academy reviewers all work in our system - as full-time and part-time instructors, counselors, instructional designers, Distance Education Coordinators, administrators, and Canvas admins - and all bring their understanding of our students and our mission to their work. Whether you are an experienced CCC online instructor or hoping to be, you can’t find better partners to guide and mentor you as you refine your online teaching practice than the folks who contribute to @ONE:

Aloha Sargent Cabrillo Kim PippaTonnesen Columbia College

Amy Evangelista Coastline Kristin Smith City College of San Francisco

Angela Drumm Mt. San Jacinto Larry Green Lake Tahoe Community College

Arnita Porter West Los Angeles Leslie Easton San Diego City College

Audrey Blumeneau Cabrillo Leslie Reeves American River College

Belen Torres-Gil Rio Hondo Lisa Sayles College of the Redwoods

Brianna Kuhn San Diego CCD Margaret Phelps Ventura College

Carly Zeller College of the Siskiyous Maria Fernandez College of the Siskiyous

Carolyn Fiori San Mateo Maria Mendoza-Escobedo Coastline

Catherine Hillman Cuesta Maritez Apigo Contra Costa College

Catherine McKee Mt. San Antonio Matt Vasques Cuesta College

Chelsea Cohen Laney Matthew Mooney Santa Barbara City College

Christi Blauwkamp Copper Mountain Mayra Gomez Mt. San Jacinto

Christine Dobrowolski Redwoods Meg Phelps Ventura College

Colleen Harmon Cuesta Michele Alaniz City College of San Francisco

Cynthia Wilshusen Cuesta Michelle Macfarlane Sierra College

Damaris (DJ) Hawkins Riverside CCD Mike Smedshammer Modesto Junior College

Dennis Cambara Chaffey Monica Z. Eastridge Mt. San Jacinto College

Dipali Buch Folsom Lake Nadia Sayeh San Diego City College

Donna Eyestone City College of San Francisco Pat James MSJC, OEI (ret.)

Dyan Pease Sacramento City Paul Burwick Shasta College

Elizabeth Morgan College of the Desert Sandra C. Haynes Pasadena City College

Fabiola Torres Glendale Scott McAfee College of the Canyons

Francisco Corchado Hartnell Steven Rodriguez Pasadena City College

Gregory Beyrer Cosumnes Suzanne Wakim Butte College

James Glapa-Grossklag College of the Canyons Sylvia Amitoelau Coastline Community College

Jennifer Kattman Sierra College Teresa Borden Columbia College

Jennifer Pakula Saddleback College Tracy Schaelen Southwestern College

Joanna Miller Contra Costa CCD Tracy Stuntz Clovis College

Kathy Arnold West Valley College Vanessa Chavez Rio Hondo

Katie Conklin West Hills Vernon Martin Sierra College

Katie Palacios San Diego Mesa Veronica Van Ry Taft College

Ken Cooper Los Rios CCD

Finally, we owe a debt of gratitude for the support of our Executive Director, Jory Hadsell (CVC-OEI); our Executive Sponsor, Joe Moreau (Vice Chancellor of Technology for the Foothill-De Anza Community College District); and the leadership of the California Community College Chancellor’s Office.

If you want to learn more about the work of the entire @ONE team, you can view this brief (4 min) overview video, visit our website, or follow @CVCOEI and @ONEforTraining on Twitter!

Thank you to everyone who has supported online teaching and learning in the California Community College system through @ONE and CVC-OEI!

Sincerely,
Autumn Bell
Director of Professional Development, CVC-OEI/@ONE
abell@cvc.edu

What's New with @ONE - the Online Network of Educators?

Happy New Year!!

Yes, that is what I meant to write. I know it’s July, but we operate on a July-June fiscal year, so this is the time the @ONE (Online Network of Educators) team reflects on last year’s work and gets ready to tackle a new set of goals. And we couldn’t be happier that we are entering the new year with two new instructional designers - Liz du Plessis and Shawn Valcárcel!

Liz du Plessis was the instructional designer at Santa Rosa Junior College for three years before more recently working for the fully online college (“CalBright”). Liz has been active with @ONE as a facilitator and presenter and is also an adjunct history instructor. Shawn Valcárcel comes to us from Mt. San Jacinto College, where he worked as an instructional designer. He is also a part-time online music instructor and has worked with @ONE in the past. Shawn and Liz join our current Instructional Designers, Helen Graves and Cheryl Chapman. You can see profiles and contact info for all of our team on our website.

Highlights from Last Year

Thanks to the hard work of our entire PD team and the CCC educators who facilitate our courses, contribute to Pocket PD articles, and serve as course reviewers, we were able to bring you the following in 2018-2019:

An additional 21 online PD courses compared to 2017-2018, including additional courses on Equity & Culturally Responsive Teaching and Humanizing Online Teaching & Learning.
A 20% increase in people taking and completing @ONE courses over the previous year.
2 free, online conferences, Can•Innovate and Digital Learning Day, lead by Michelle Pacansky-Brock, that reached more people than the past 3 years of monthly desktop webinars combined.
5 new self-paced courses on accessibility available through @ONE as a result of our partnership with the CCC Accessibility Center.
An additional 103 courses aligned to the CVC-OEI Course Design Rubric through Course Design Academy, bringing the total so far to 232 courses!

A Look Ahead

And those are just some of the things our team has been working on! Here are two more:

Adoptable @ONE Courses are now in the Canvas Commons

Many of you have asked for copies of our courses so that you can use them as part of your local professional development programs. Helen Graves has been hard at work to respond to this need. Thanks to Helen, you can now find nearly a dozen CVC-OEI/@ONE adoptable courses in the Canvas Commons, including some of our most requested four-week courses, courses to support peer online course review and use of the rubric, and the self-paced accessibility courses brought to us by the CCC Accessibility Center. To find these adopable courses:

Log into your college’s instance of Canvas
In the global navigation menu, select Commons*
In the search box at the top, enter “CVC-OEI Adoptable”

Please note: Our adoptable courses are licensed with CC-BY license, which means you're free to adapt them provided you attribute CVC-OEI.

*If you do not see a link to the “Commons” in your Canvas menu, contact your campus Canvas Admin to request that this feature be enabled.

New Names for Our Certificates

@ONE has gone through changes over the last three years, and so have our certificate programs. Several years ago, we replaced the original Online Teaching Certification with the Course Design Fundamentals Certificate. In 2017, we also introduced a second certificate in Online Teaching Principles. Since then, we have heard from many folks that it’s no longer clear which certificate is the right one to use for “certifying” faculty to teach online, or which one DE Coordinators should recommend to new faculty.

We hope these small changes we’ve made to the names will help clear up any confusion:

Certificate in Online Teaching & Design

Formerly: Certificate in Course Design Fundamentals

We recommend this program for preparing/certifying faculty to teach online and to prepare staff and instructional designers who support online teaching. The certificate prepares participants to develop and teach effective, interactive, and accessible courses that promote student retention and success.

Cheryl Chapman is leading a project this summer to redesign the 12-week Online Teaching and Design (OTD) course. It will continue to be one option for participants to earn the certificate, although Online Teaching and Design course may have a new name after the redesign! Look for a launch of the updated “OTD” in the fall.

Learn more about the Certificate in Online Teaching & Design.

Advanced Certificate in Online Teaching Principles

We’ve added “Advanced” to the title of this certificate to reflect that we recommend this certificate for experienced online teachers, DE support staff, and instructional designers who are ready to explore how their humanized presence in the course along with culturally responsive and dynamic teaching practices can positively impact students.

Learn more about the Advanced Certificate in Online Teaching Principles.

Join Us!

While you are learning more about our certificate program, we invite you to put in your proposal for Can•Innovate 2019 and mark your calendars for October 25! Also, see what your CCC colleagues are talking about on Twitter using the hashtag #CCCLearn.

There are so many great things happening in our system right now and we want you to be a part of the conversation!

Welcome to Our New Website!

Please stay awhile. Click around, explore, and discover. We are so excited about the design of our website and all of the fantastic opportunities our new design holds for you to connect, learn, and grow.

Get to Know @ONE (the Online Network of Educators)

You can begin your exploration of our site by connecting with us! Check out Our Team. These are the dedicated faculty mentors, instructional designers, accessibility experts, and coordinators who work hard each and every day to support faculty and staff like you from across the state.

Sign up now for a free, one-hour webinar, A New Year, A New One, on December 13th at 1pm. Our Faculty Mentors, Lené Whitley-Putz and Michelle Pacansky-Brock will give you a tour of our new website and orient you to our new, exciting offerings and spring events.

Learn and Grow

One of the things we’ve been working hard to do is provide you with a greater variety of courses and programs to help you grow and develop in your teaching, course design, and use of digital tools to enhance student learning and success. Our new certificate programs give you greater flexibility in meeting your professional development goals by allowing you to choose from a variety of topics and formats that meet your needs and interests.

Connect With Your Peers

We also want to help you connect with other faculty, staff, and administrators from across our 114 colleges. Learn from your peers through their blog posts - and maybe contribute one of your own. Participate in the Reflective Writing Club that begins January 26th and don’t forget to mark your calendars for the free, online Digital Learning Day Conference on February 22. Visit the Connect tab on our home page to join in and grow your own professional learning network!

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Let us know what you think of our site and what we can do to support you in your incredibly vital work of teaching and supporting students. You have an open invitation to become part of our dynamic and dedicated Online Network of Educators!