Interactive Lectures – Friday Connect
Interactive Lectures: Are assignments/quizzes/tests the only way of gauging student understanding? The answer is no! Join us this Friday to discuss interactive lectures and the use of classroom polling. Maritime faculty and CIE Board member Scott Powell won the...
Faculty stipends available for Open Educational Resource (OER) adoption
With the generous support of an Innovation Grant from the NMC Foundation, the OER Team is opening a call for applications for faculty interested in adapting a course they teach to use free and/or openly available course materials in lieu of texts from traditional...
Another Successful October Conference
A team building committee, a deep dive into the Comp sequence, new OER textbooks, a design your life course, a chart of suggestions for an autism-friendly Testing Center, schedules for new co-requisite math classes, new online chemistry lab procedures . . . and so...
Experiential Learning Institute Welcomes New Office Manager!
My name is Tracy Welch and I have recently been hired as the Experiential Learning Institute (ELI) Office Manager. I’m very excited to be in this newly created position at NMC. I am hoping to bring my various work experiences as a teacher, outreach...
Learn the Basics or Learn Video with Quick Bytes Classes
Check out these great classes to up your skills for the classroom and for your office. Just an hour-long, these classes are packed with lots of information on new technology. Gmail: Advanced - Advanced Tips & Tricks to make you more organized & productive...
Exciting Quick Bytes Courses for Fall 2021
Join Alison Thornton for these one-hour Quick Bytes training sessions to up your skills on technology! All courses are offered via Zoom. The Zoom link will appear as a calendar appointment after you enroll. Google Forms - Google Forms can be applied in a myriad of...
Register for the FREE Virtual ETOM Conference
via GIPHY The ETOM Executive Board is inviting NMC faculty to attend the free November 5th virtual conference. Bonni Stachowiak, the Dean of Teaching and Learning at Vanguard University of Southern California, is the keynote this year and she is doing a...
Fall 2022 New Online/Hybrid Course Development Timeline
Interested in developing a new online or hybrid course for the Fall of 2022? If so, please download and complete the Online/Hybrid Course Request Form and submit it to your academic area chair for approval. Forms must be submitted by November 1st! Once your chair...
October Conference: The Best of Both Worlds
This year's October Conference takes the best of last year's FedEx day--the opportunity to focus all day on one project--and combines it with our previous way of doing October Conference--having a variety of sessions to choose from. We are excited about this...
Can Your Students Hear You? Here Are Some Tips To Be Sure They Can
Ryan Corey, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow and engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has quantified what we have all been experiencing since donning masks at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Face covering materials such as masks give all...