Professional Development

Work Group Leader: Jo Munroe

Work Group Secretary: Renee Carney

SBCTC Staffer: Scott Dennis

Group Members: Van Aguirre, Jackie Staley, Jo Munroe, Renee Carney, Greg Marshal, Rick McKinnon, Tim Fuhrman, Sue Gallaway, Lin Zhou, Kathy Brooks, Mike Arnold.

Goals:

• eLearning Innovation Award

  • Review the nominations and make a recommendation for the award.

  • Complete- The winner is Nicky Bly, for her work as Program Coordinator of the hybrid Polysomnographic Technology program at Highline.  The award presentation was made at the ATL.

• Provide training on topics of interest to the Council, such as Google tools for education, sustainability, and WGU, at each quarterly meeting. (Discuss possible Linda Maier "community building" session for fall meeting.) Action plan:

  • Complete- Summer- Google Tools

  • Complete- Fall- Linda Maier, community building

  • Complete- Winter- Quality Matters- in two tracks (work with Ed to organize this)

    • • Programmatic Track

  • Complete- Spring - Customer Service

  • Summer- LMS

• • • Professional Development on the new Learning Management System.

• • Suggestions for the 2012-2013 year

• • • how does eLearning fit into the new accreditation process?

• Increase professional development for faculty and staff and sharing of best practices in the use of existing system-wide teaching and learning technologies with an emphasis on the efficacy of teaching and learning using technology

  • 2012 WA eLearning Community Schedule

  • Work in Progress Mike Arnold is taking the lead to assist Scott Dennis in organizing the blog and coordinating professional development sessions.

• Provide topics/videos of discussion for the eLearning Council- bringing new concepts, theories, or strategies.

  • Complete- This has actually turned into the "how do you" blocks of our meetings. Learning from one another.