MCO OER Faculty Conversations
The OER Faculty Conversation series provides an opportunity for faculty from two and four-year institutions to hear how their peers are using OER in their classrooms. The final session of the year will feature NMC's Lisa Blackford discussing her Social Work course....
HLC Faculty Forum
The HLC peer reviewers will be on-campus Monday and Tuesday, March 11-12. There is a Faculty Forum scheduled for Monday from 1:30 to 2:30 pm in the Scholars Hall Auditorium. Two peer reviewers will want a chance to talk with you and to ask questions. Only faculty...
2019 Winter Conference: Dr. Randy Bass
Winter Conference was led this year by Georgetown University's Dr. Randy Bass. Dr. Bass gave a talk in the morning entitled "Higher Education and the Future of Human Learning." In his talk, he spoke of what education needs to look like as we move into the future,...
Experiential Education Academy Certifies NMC Staff & Faculty
At last Monday’s Winter Conference guest speaker Dr. Randy Bass of Georgetown University facilitated discussion around high-impact experiential learning practice and the future of human learning in higher education. Over the next three days twenty NMC faculty and...
A Preview: Mandatory Online Learning Orientation
Beginning with registration for fall 2019, all students taking an online class for the first time at NMC will be required to complete an Online Learning Orientation (OLO). In addition, any student who has not been successful (2.0 or better) in a previous NMC online...
Exciting New Moodle Text Editor Feature!
Coming to all faculty and students in 2019 is an exciting new feature we've recently installed on Moodle. It's called MathType (coupled with ChemType) and it's located within your text editor interface. MathType allows users to create math and chemistry formulas...
General Education Outcomes
The phrase “General Education” refers to the educational foundation of skills, knowledge, habits of mind, and values that prepare students for success in their majors and in their personal and professional lives upon transferring or graduating. At Northwestern...
Exciting New Ensemble Feature!
The newest version of Ensemble (installed in November 2018) contains several new features, but the most exciting is that videos now allow instructors to embed quizzes and have those quiz scores automatically transfer to their Moodle gradebook! The feature is fairly...
Don’t Grade Alone!
Instead, THIS THURSDAY, you can join your colleagues for a night of pizza, salad, motivational prizes, and good company as you dig into those final tests and essays. Join CIE, EMT and the Osterlin Library for The Long Night of Grading (or as Tom Gordon likes to call...
Important Upcoming Moodle Dates
As we close down 2018 and finalize NMC's Fall semester, be aware of these important Moodle dates: Friday, December 27th – Fall 2018 (1901) courses turned off. We routinely turn courses off after the course ends. If you need a course left open, please submit a ticket....