Wayne Community College - Distance Education

WCC Distance Education Helpdesk 919-739-7023 or 919-739-7029 wccde@waynecc.edu
Fall and Spring Hours: Mon-Thu 7:45 AM- 5:30 PM Fri 8 AM-1 PM
Summer: Mon-Thu 7 AM-6 PM

Distance Ed - Training Calendar

Listed below are various DE and Educational Technology professional development opportunities.

Open Moodle Help Sessions, Spruce 102- These are open sessions that will continue through the entire semester. If the times are not suitable please contact EST to schedule a session. Note: Canceled Open Moodle Dates: Wed Feb 1; Wed, Feb 15 - due conflict with room.

Tuesdays	3:00-5:00 pm	Randall Shearon
Wednesdays	9:30-10:30 am	Jennifer Johnson
Wednesdays	1:30-2:30 pm	Jennifer Johnson
Thursdays	9:00-11:00 am	Randall Shearon

VLC Development Center

What is the Professional Development Center (PDC)?

The VLC Professional Development Center is one of three centers that support the NCCCS Virtual Learning Community (VLC). Each year, the PDC provides training and support to faculty across the NCCCS through learning objects in the NCLOR and training sessions at conferences and webinars.

Click HERE to view upcoming training and events. Note: WCC is hosting many sessions here on campus.

NC-NET

NC-NET Academy -An Online Professional Development Program for Community and Technical College Faculty. The NC-NET Academy courses offer six-week facilitator-led online courses that weave together readings, activities, and discussions for participants to construct new understandings in the context of their own situations. Follow the link to view details and course offerings.

Regional Center for Classroom Technologies and Online Instruction Sessionsdevelops resources in the areas of classroom technology and online teaching. Activities of the center will include workshops, webinars, and resources such as self-paced courses, tutorials, and videos to support faculty in their use of technology for instruction. Follow the link to view the upcoming sessions, registration information, and access to archived sessions.

WCC DE Workshop Calendar: (descriptions are below table): Training sessions are open. Sign in sheets will be available and participants will be asked to evaluate sessions. All session resources, materials, and possibly recordings will be posted in the WCC DE Professional Development course in Moodle.

Thursday, Jan 19	3:00pm- 6:00pm	Auditorium	The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, of DE - Kelly Kirk, 911eLearning - Archive posted
Friday, Jan 20	9:00am-12noon	Auditorium	The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, of DE - Kelly Kirk, 911eLearning - Archive posted
Wednesday, Jan 25	3:00pm-4:00pm	Spruce 102	Turn It In, Anti Plagiarism - Randall Shearon
Thursday, Jan 26	3:00pm-4:00pm	Spruce 102	Turn It In, Anti Plagiarism - Randall Shearon
Thursday, Feb 2	3:00pm-4:30pm	Webinar, Spruce 102	Fundamentals of Accessibility - Jennifer Jones, VLC & Wake Tech
Friday, Feb 3	10:00am-12noon	Spruce 102	Turn It In, Anti Plagiarism - Randall Shearon
Wednesday, Feb 8	3:00pm-4:00pm	Spruce 102	Turn It In, Anti Plagiarism - Randall Shearon
Thursday, Feb 9	3:00pm-4:00pm	Spruce 102	Turn It In, Anti Plagiarism - Randall Shearon
Friday, Feb 10	3:00pm-4:00pm	Webinar	Writing Measurable Student Learning Outcomes, NC-NET, click HERE for pre-registration info. Note: Session will be recorded and available at a later date.
Thursday, Feb 23	2:00pm-4:00pm	Walnut 101	SACS & Quality Matters - Dr. David Smith, VLC & Faye Tech
Thursday, Mar 1	3:00pm-5:00pm	Walnut 101	NCLOR Resources - Jennifer Jones, VLC & Wake Tech
Wednesday, Mar 14	2:30pm-4:00pm	Webinar, Spruce 102	Using Rubrics to Promote Student Learning - Jennifer Jones, VLC & Wake Tech
Wednesday, Mar 21	2:30pm-4:00pm	Webinar, Spruce 102	Captioning in Camtasia - Jennifer Jones, VLC & Wake Tech
Thursday, Mar 22	3:00pm-4:30pm	Webinar, Spruce 102	Copyright and Fair Use in the Online Course - Jennifer Jones, VLC & Wake Tech
Tuesday, Mar 27	2:30pm-3:30pm	Spruce 102	Advising WCC Students for Online/Hybrid Courses - WCC in house training
Wednesday, Mar 28	10:30am-11:30am	Spruce 102	Advising WCC Students for Online/Hybrid Courses - WCC in house training
Thursday, Mar 29	11:00am- 12 noon	Spruce 102	Advising WCC Students for Online/Hybrid Courses - WCC in house training
Friday, Mar 30	12noon - 1:00 pm	Spruce 102	Advising WCC Students for Online/Hybrid Courses - WCC in house training
Wednesday, April 4	3:30-pm-4:30pm	WAL 101	Advising WCC Students for Online/Hybrid Courses - WCC in house training
Rescheduled - Monday, April 23 Thursday, May 10	9:30am-11:00am Both Sessions	Webinar	Mobile Apps to Enhance Instructor Productivity, register
Tuesday, April 24	2:00pm-5:00pm	Auditorium	Universal Course Design for Online/Hybrid Courses Workshop
Wednesday, April 25	2:30pm-5:30pm	Auditorium	Universal Course Design for Online/Hybrid Courses Workshop
Thursday, April 26	3:00pm-4:30pm	Webinar, Spruce 102	Free Tools for Online Learning Course - Jennifer Jones, VLC & Wake Tech
Monday, April 30	2:30pm-3:30pm	WLC 161	Moodle: McGraw HIll Connect Campus Workshop -McGraw Hill Representative
Tuesday, May 1	2:00pm-3:30pm	Auditorium	WCC Online/Hybrid Standards, Guidelines & Checklist Workshop
Wednesday, May 2	3:00pm-4:30pm	Auditorium	WCC Online/Hybrid Standards, Guidelines & Checklist Workshop
Friday, May 4	2:00pm-3:15pm	Webinar	7 Principles for Good Practice and Online Teaching, NC-NET, To register, contact Marissa Weymouth at weymoutm@faytechcc.edu. Note: Session will be recorded and available at a later date.
TBA	TBA	Webinar	Using VLC Resources to Enhance an Online Course
TBA	TBA	Webinar	Engaging Virtual classrooms: Adobe Connect
			More to come!

Workshop Descriptions:

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly of Distance Education
Thursday, January 19 & Friday, Jan 20, Moffatt Auditorium

The session is lead by a guest speaker. Mr. Kirk is an e-Learning Specialist/Instructional Designer/Consultant and former Director of Distance Learning at Randolph Community College. This interactive session will cover critical topics such as: best practices of teaching and learning in an online environment, accreditation issues and concerns, quality course design, instructor issues, effective technology usage, and advisement issues. After completing this workshop, participants will:
1- Have a greater understanding of quality course design principles
2- Have a greater understanding of effective use of technology in online learning environments
3- Have a greater understanding of best practices in online learning environments
4- Gain insight into effectively assessing student preparedness for online environments
5- Have a greater understanding of the Online Class Quality Pyramid
3 hour workshop.

Turn It In - Anti Plagiarism
WCC- Various session times offered in Spruce 102

The college has adopted Turn It In for anti plagiarism. The session will show faculty how to use the tool both in and out of the Moodle environment. 1 hour workshop.

DE Advisor & Student Assessment Training
WCC - Various session times offered in Spruce 102

This session will discuss the advising process and the considerations when advising students who are interested in registering for online and hybrid courses. The focus will be the revised WCC Distance Education Students Assessment Check Sheet and advising processes for online/hybrid students. 1.5 hour workshop.

WCC Best Practices, WCC Standards, SACS, & Course Review Training
WCC-Various session times offered in Spruce 102

WCC has revised and/or developed Best Practices, Standards & Course Review process to accommodate SACS. The session will review best practices in distance education and and introduce the college's online/hybrid course standards & course evaluation processes. 2 hour workshop

Fundamentals of Accessibility
Thursday, February 2, 3:00-4:30, Webinar - Spruce 102

This session is lead by a NCCCS VLC representative. Are you developing or teaching an online course? If so, you’ll want to ensure that your content is accessible to all students. Creating accessible content is not only a good teaching practice, but it is also the law. This workshop defines and demonstrates current NC accessibility guidelines for online course content. Come and explore various accessibility testing tools and discover how compliance with accessibility mandates can benefit all students and make you a better instructor. This workshop will look at how to create accessible documents, presentations, and multimedia. In addition, we will look at examples of common online content accessibility problems and easy to implement solutions. Participants will be provided with resources to help make their online content accessible for all. This session is offered as a Webinar through the NCCCS VLC. Session will be recorded and available at a later date. 1.5 hour workshop.

SACS and Quality Matters
Thursday, February 23, 2:00-4:00pm, Wal 101

This session is lead by a NCCCS VLC representative. The VLC Quality Assessment Center conducted research concerning the SACs requirements for online courses. Comparisons were made using the VLC Course Development Template against SACs requirements, Quality Matters Standards and accessibility issues as related to developing online course content. This session is a face-to-face session offered through the NCCCS VLC. 1.5 hour workshop.

NCLOR Resources
Thursday, March 1, 3:00-5:00pm, Wal 101

The North Carolina Learning Object Repository (NCLOR) empowers faculty across North Carolina by providing them with a central location to manage, collect, contribute, and share digital learning resources for use in traditional or distance learning environments. The NCLOR is designed to increase the efficiency and productivity of K-20 teachers across the state by providing quality resources and by reducing duplication of effort associated with course development. NCLOR participants include the 58 colleges from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS), University of North Carolina (UNC ) System, North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (36 private institutions), the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI), and North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS). This is a face-to-face session offered through the NCCCS VLC. 1.5 hour workshop.

Using Rubrics to Promote Student Learning
Wednesday, March 14, 2:30-4:00pm, Webinar - Spruce 102

This webinar will explore using rubrics as a tool to promote students learning by encouraging critical thinking, developing meaningful feedback and reaching students with varying learning styles and abilities. Writing an effective rubric that measures what students should learn in an objective way for a subjective assignment can be challenging. This session provides North Carolina Community College instructors with a series of rubric templates to assist them in creating a grading rubric. Please note that rubric templates offered in this project consist of commonly-used criteria from numerous rubrics found in existing NCCCS courses and through Rubistar, an online rubric database and creation tool sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. 1.5 hour workshop.

Captioning in Camtasia
Wednesday, March 21, 2:30-4:00pm, Webinar - Spruce 101

Create accessible videos for your online course by using the captioning tools in Camtasia 7. This webinar will demonstrate how to create and caption a video using Camtasia 7. This session is offered as a webinar through the NCCCS VLC for community college instructors. 1.5 hour workshop.

Confused about copyright issues and fair use? This webinar will provide a crash-course in copyrights and fair use. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions about copyright concerns and issues. Copyright and Fair Use in the Online Course. This session is offered as a Webinar through the NCCCS VLC. Session will be recorded and available at a later date. 1.5 hour workshop.

Advising WCC Students for Online/Hybrid Courses
Tuesday, March 27, 2:30pm-3:30pm
Wednesday, March 28, 10:30am-11:30am
Thursday, March 29, 11am-12 noon
Friday, March 30, 12 noon-1:00pm
Wednesday, April 4, 3:30-4-30pm

WCC advising procedures for students who may register for online/hybrid courses has changed. Attend one of the workshops to the get details, review the new documents, and see the new procedures for the PERC screen in Datatel. 1 hour workshop.

Mobile Apps to Enhance Instructor Productivity
Rescheduled - Monday April 23 &Thursday May 10, 9:30am-11:00am both sessions, Webinar

This session will introduce you to some of the features most commonly used to create and verify accessible documents and presentations. Topics will include the Accessibility Checker, appropriate use of alternative text, creating custom style sets, and verifying structure and hierarchy for accessible navigation. This workshop will provide participants with information on the resources and services offered by the NCCCS Virtual Learning Community (VLC) Support Centers to help increase student engagement and interaction in your course(s). This session is offered as a Webinar through the NCCCS VLC. Session will be recorded and available at a later date. 1.5 hour workshop.

Universal Course Design for Online/Hybrid Courses Workshop
Tuesday. April 24, 2:00-5:00pm & Wednesday, April 25, 2:30-5:30pm, Auditorium (repeated sessions) VLC Workshop, Jennifer Jones, VLC & Wake Tech

The concept of Universal Design for Learning was introduced by the Center for Applies Special Technology (CAST). Just as Universal Design attempts to remove the barriers of everyday products and structures, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) attempts to remove the barriers to learning. The CAST website defines UDL as, "UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs." 3 hour workshop.

Free Tools for Online Teaching
Thursday, April 26, 3:00-4:40, Webinar - Spruce 102

There are many free tools that can be used to enhance online courses. This workshop will explore a variety of free tool that can be used by instructors and students to promote learning and keep students engaged in online courses. This session is offered as a webinar through the NCCCS VLC for community college instructors. 1.5 hour workshop.

Moodle: McGraw HIll Connect Campus Workshop -McGraw Hill Representative
Monday, April 30, 2:30-3:30, On Campus session with McGraw HIll Representative, WLC 161

MH CAMPUS Find out about this new tool available to you right now, in MOODLE, to use with your classes. Learn how to access ebooks, supplements, videos, animations, powerpoints, and much more. No adoption required! All faculty and students can access these assets. In addition, come see how McGraw-Hill assets already integrate into Moodle. McGraw-Hill will show you how to use Connect, a tool which provides a variety of study and assessment tools in an interactive and media-rich environment. www.mcgrawhillconnect.com For adopters. Join us for to learn more about the hottest new technologies in higher education!

WCC Online/Hybrid Standards, Guidelines & Checklist Workshop
Tuesday, May 1, 2:00-3:30pm, and Wednesday, May 2, 3:00-4:30pm, Auditorium (repeated Sessions), In house training

To continue to provide high quality online/ hybrid courses, WCC has adopted Online/Hybrid Standards,Guidelines, and Check Sheets. The standards include major areas with essential standards for quality online courses based on the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric, SACS, SREB, NCCCS VLC and practices adopted from Cape Fear Community College. This session introduces the information and documents that will support instructors with online/hybrid course development, revision, and assessment. 2 hour workshop.

Using VLC Resources to Enhance an Online Course
TBA

Need help developing your course? Want to make your course more interactive and engaging? Whether you are new to teaching online or an experienced instructor, the VLC has something for everyone. This webinar will provide participants with information on the resources and services offered by the NCCCS Virtual Learning Community (VLC) Support Centers to help increase student engagement and interaction in your course(s).
This session is offered as a Webinar through the NCCCS VLC. Session will be recorded and available at a later date. 1.5 hour workshop.

Engaging Virtual Classrooms: Adobe Connect
TBA

Want to make your course more engaging? Learn how to use Adobe Connect to increase interaction, engagement, and knowledge retention in online courses. This webinar will offer tips and tricks on using the tools in Adobe Connect to create an engaging virtual classroom. 1.5 hour workshop.

Additional sessions will be forthcoming based on initiatives, demand and/or feedback:
NCLOR Resources, Moodle, Gradebook, Mimio, MediaSite- Lecture Capture, etc.

For more information about these sessions or would like additional sessions offered, please contact EST at shell@waynecc.edu