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Winter Meltdowns – 10 Minute PD
Earlier this semester, the Educational Technology department started a new series called Winter Meltdowns. Each Meltdown episode is approximately 10 minutes long and features instructors using technology to help their teaching. We have held three meltdowns so...
Spring 2018 Transfer Fair is March 13!
Over 20 university representatives will be on NMC’s campus on Tuesday, March 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to talk with students, staff and faculty about their programs and the transfer process. The university representatives will be Located in: Health/Science...
Developing Metacognition by Modeling with Contextual Frameworks
Metacognition means, simply, thinking about one’s thinking and realizing if you are comprehending what you are thinking. Modeling thinking is one metacognitive approach to instruction that Buehl (2014) found increases student’s abilities to transfer or adapt their...
Affordable Cost for Course Materials
A survey of Washington state's community and technical colleges was completed at the end of 2017 regarding what college students believe is a reasonable cost for course materials. The data collected led to 6 findings recently published by the SBCTC and WACTCSA....