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Seven essential e-learning skills for every educator at North Seattle CC

  • Basic web-building and file-management skills
    • Ability to create a biographical or “home” web page using a web editor
    • Ability to make course materials such as syllabus and assignments available online -- formatted and organized for easy access https://frontpage.northseattle.edu/distance/
  • Ability to effectively employ interactive e-learning tools whether to enhance face-to-face instruction or to complement online or blended instruction
    • Skillful pedagogical understanding of how to facilitate learning with e-tools especially online discussion rooms and assessment features.
    • Technological capability to use the basic features of a course management system (such as WebCT) including discussion rooms, assignment drop-boxes, grade books and assessment tools. Tutorials: https://frontpage.northseattle.edu/distance/
  • Familiarity with the pedagogical and technological skills associated with using newWeb 2.0 (social networking) applications in face-to-face and virtual classrooms, including the use of blogs, wikis, IM and (eventually) virtual spaces like Second Life.
  • Familiarity with technical operation and use of multimedia tools to create effective learning -- tools such as digital cameras, audio recording and podcasting, video recording of classroom activities, videoconferencing and videostreaming (perhaps making use of the “classroom of the future” as a faculty training facility as well as working with SCCtv). Faculty Development http://faculty.seattlecolleges.com/jkent/workshops/

In addition to seven specific e-learning related skills, other technology skills apply as well
as listed in the “20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have” (http://thejournal.com/articles/17325_1).

Proposed activities and workshops:
  • Introduction of seven skills during the orientation of new faculty cohorts.
  • Quarterly workshops in each of these skills. http://webshare.northseattle.edu/tlc/calendar.shtm
  • Completion of an e-teaching preparation class prior to teaching distance learning classes.
  • Use of stipended “faculty collaborators” to help other faculty in their division gain practical knowledge associated with these skills.
  • One-on-one training sessions in North’s e-Learning Support Center (NeLSC) and TLC.


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