According to a recent report published by Michigan Colleges Online (MCO), Community Colleges in Michigan saved students more than $1.5 million dollars in the Fall of 2016 by using Open Educational Resources (OER). OERs are freely available educational materials...
Earlier this term we held two face-to-face training sessions and two online Zoom meetings to show off several new plugins that offer some incredible functions and usable features for the online portion of your courses. Watch a recorded version of the training and read...
On February 3rd, we will have our first Faculty Council in the new configuration. From now on all issues related to the Faculty Professional Association (Union) will be handled by the Association. This would include the Salary Plan, Grievances and Evaluations. ...
The annual Liberal Arts Network for Development Conference (LAND) for Michigan community college faculty and staff will take place in Muskegon Feb. 15-17. As well as being the most affordable conference in world history, LAND offers attendees an opportunity to learn...
Accessible content doesn’t just benefit those with disabilities. For example, in the case of web video, captioned content benefits ESL students and those who prefer to learn by both reading and hearing new terminology. In a sound-sensitive environment like a library,...
Many of you attended the Professional Development day session in October and heard from some of our veterans about their experiences in the military and adapting to college life. Building on that knowledge I wanted to bring awareness to another battle they may be...
Welcome to spring semester 2017. I thought it would be a good time to share a Fact-Sheet on Disability Etiquette We spend a lot of time trying to make our materials and facilities accessible to our stakeholder with disabilities. Let’s not forget to engage with the...
We've recently installed several new Moodle plugins that offer some incredible functions and usable features for the online portion of your courses. We've added tools that help you: boost student engagement get notifications when assignments are ready to be graded...
There is a new feature in Ensemble that allows you to quickly create your own thumbnail image for your video. This is the image that shows when you see the video in your library or pull it up to preview or play it. No more thumbnails of you caught with a funny face!...