Distance Learning - North's e-Learning Support Center (NeLSC)

New Technologies on the Horizon to Educate Students

In September, NSCC joined in the District’s 2012 e-Learning Summer Institute to provide about 30 faculty with a jump-start on emerging technologies, quality standards and strategies driving e-education in the coming year.  NSCC’s learning management system training (in ANGEL and soon Canvas) for faculty is now designed to be modular, self-paced and stream-lined to expedite effective use across the entire curriculum.  Concurrently, strong efforts have been initiated to increase students’ learning access and success by reducing the costs of text materials in all courses (data are being compiled) through use of open educational resources and by working with publishers to customize textbooks.  Again in coordination with colleges across our District, NSCC is instituting a system and policy to put mobile devices (like iPads), “LiveScribe” smartpens, SoftChalk assessment builders and other “disruptive classroom technologies” in the hands of faculty to encourage new avenues of exploration and utilization to reach more students in our community.

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