Mindful Course Design for Student Success How did you develop a heart for the mission of community colleges? With a focus on student-centered online engagement strategies, this webinar describes course designs that enable students to succeed. By exploring the rewards associated with the Bartlett Model for Engaging the Online Learner, webinar attendees develop [...]

Alternative Avenues for Non-Traditional Students: Finding Value in Prior Learning Assessment as a Faculty Member Prior learning assessment (PLA) is a powerful tool for engaging non-traditional students. The task of evaluating requests for prior learning credit often falls to faculty members in community college settings. Some faculty doubt PLA because it removes students from seats [...]

Supporting Faculty Across Higher Education with Best Practices for Teaching Online Is your institution struggling to support faculty as they transition to online modalities? Now more than ever, being prepared to teach online is a critical mission for every higher education institution. Best Practices for Teaching Online (BPTO) is a professional development program [...]

Ensuring Equity and Success in Community Colleges: Using iClicker for Active Learning Active learning transforms classrooms, giving every student a voice and helping improve course outcomes. Join Dr. Brandon Tenn, veteran student engagement expert and instructor at Merced College, to learn how implementing active learning techniques with iClicker can change your classroom dynamics [...]

Writing the World This webinar explores how a student-managed daily writing practice, within and beyond the classroom, transforms teaching and learning in composition and literature classes. Learn how daily writing can help students write across disciplines, polish critical and creative thinking, become empowered, and live with more intention. Learning Outcomes: Learn the value [...]

Dante Meets Einstein at Café Paradiso: Renewing the Vows Between Humanities and Science Dante’s narrative poem The Divine Comedy and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity were both inspired by the octagonal mosaic ceiling of the Baptistry of Saint John in Florence, Italy. Gazing upward, both Einstein and Dante realized the same beauty in two different [...]

White Privilege: What is It Really? How Can It Be Used to Help Others Who Lack That Privilege? In this webinar, Dr. Fuller explains the term “white privilege”—who has it and why. Anthropologists use the term “enculturation” to describe how we learn what family, community, and society look like. The norms we enculturate [...]

At the Heart of Retention Programs and Practices: Creating an Environment of Mattering and Validation for Community College Students This webinar presents the connection between community college student persistence and the important roles mattering and validation play in student success. Based upon Schlossberg's (1989) Mattering Theory and Rendon's (1994) Validation Theory, the webinar demonstrates practical [...]

60 Free Software Tools in 60 Minutes During this webinar, discover free, but little-known, technology tools available for faculty, staff, administrators, and students to use for improving student engagement in the classroom, as well the workflow of everyday tasks. Participants leave with at least one tool they can immediately put to use. A total [...]