Full-time faculty need to complete our annual goals by Sept. 13 and CIE can help! We are funding two PD opportunities that can fulfill at least one of your goals. Attend the Lilly Conference: Advancing Teaching & Learning in Traverse City on Oct. 9-11. We...
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The Teaching Professor Conference 2024
Nicole Speelman and Janet Lively recently attended The Teaching Professor Conference in New Orleans. Here's what they had to say about the event: When and where did the event take place? June 7-9, 2024, New Orleans Please share details from a memorable...
AFIT Summer Institute 2024 Summary
The Alliance for Innovation & Transformation (AFIT) is an association of innovative higher education CEOs who are committed to transforming their organizations in the face of unprecedented challenges and change. NMC has been a participating member of this...
Be An AI Prepper! Resources to Help Us Survive and Thrive in an AI World
SPECIAL AI EDITION Be An AI Prepper! Resources to Help Us Survive and Thrive in an AI World Dear Colleagues: As we prep for the semester, most of us are excited, concerned, or perplexed -- or all of the above -- about how generative AI will affect...
Fall Moodle Dates for 2024
With a (small) Canvas pilot set to begin this fall, and widespread Canvas adoption planned for 2025, it's a little sad to type in this space that this will be the final fall MOODLE important dates update. Alas, all things must pass (thank you, George Harrison)....
2023 – 2024 Year in Review: Teaching Solutions, New Course Development & Course Reviews
It's that time year again where we in the Educational Technology department count up all the tally marks to figure out how many faculty completed Teaching Solutions, who completed a new course development project, who completed the Course Review Cohort, and whose...
Video: Canvas is Coming
We want to announce that Canvas will be NMC's new LMS in the way we do it best... with a video! The details of the pilot program in the fall and making Canvas fully available for all instructors for the spring of '25 are still being worked out. We will continue...
CIE’s Tom Gordon Surfs Off Into The Sunset
Tom Gordon has served on the CIE board longer than history. But that is apparently long enough. Tom is retiring from service as of May 10 to devote more time to surfing/skateboarding, playing with the amphibians in his backyard pond, roasting his own coffee beans,...
New PD Request Form and More!
Phew! Just a few more days and we’ll be seeing this academic year in the rearview mirror. Enjoy that for a minute. Done? Good! Here’s what’s up ahead from CIE! PD request form for FY 25 Here’s the link to the new PD form. If you’re eligible, use it to put in...










