Events

What barriers to success do students face? Join Suzanne Wakim in this instructional webinar. Cost is one barrier and Open Educational Resources (OER) help remove that barrier. OER also help equitize our classes by allowing faculty to personalize their teaching resources based on their students’ backgrounds, skills, and demographics. Open Educational Practices (OEP) takes this one step further by inviting students to become contributors to academia rather than just passive recipients. Open Pedagogy is based on the best practices of Universal Design and helps connect students who may feel excluded from the educational system. This webinar will begin with an overview of the current research on how OER and OEP improve student success. Then, we will focus on strategies for incorporating OER and OEP into our classes.

NetTutor is a FERPA compliant, accessible online tutoring platform available to all California Community Colleges from the Online Education Initiative (OEI). This webinar will illuminate just how simple it is to use NetTutor in your online course and provide a more equitable online learning environment for your students. Kevin Howell from Imperial Valley College will discuss how he uses NetTutor in his online Freshman Composition course to provide scaffolded writing support for students who need it. A representative from LSI/NetTutor, will also be available to demonstrate the platform and answer your questions.

In this Student Support Services webinar, Facilitators Mike Bills and Heather Lund from ConexED, will explore how technology can improve equitable outcomes for students of all ethnic backgrounds, gender and socioeconomic status, by increasing access to online student support services.

In this webinar you will learn what Sacramento City has done to deliver the program fully from within the Canvas environment. You will also learn how Fresno City is using Badgr. Students at Fresno City can earn “Student Readiness” and “College Readiness” badges. Equally important Fresno is using Badger Analytics to quantify Quest usage and more. As a bonus, the “Leveraging the Quest Program” for DE Coordinators, Readiness Leads, Teaching and Counseling Faculty self-paced, on demand short course will be previewed.