Training
We offer various scheduled trainings and workshops each term, as well as trainings by appointment or drop-on at the Tech Hub. This includes:
- Individual training for online learning, multimedia production, and other instructional technology.
- Individual or group training in using eLearn, Chemeketa’s Learning Management System (Blackboard 9.1).
- DPR – Difference Power and Responsibility Training
- Customized trainings for small groups or departments.
- Short workshops: A regular schedule of workshops on instructional technology and pedagogy offered by the Tech Hub.
- Intensive courses: The Hybrid Workshop and eLearn Institute offer comprehensive training over several weeks.
Upcoming Trainings
Ongoing Trainings
Invisable
eLearn Tool Training
This self-paced training provides an overview of Blackboard (a.k.a., eLearn), and introduces the interface, layout, settings, and tools within.
Learner-Centered Outcomes
- Setting up the course homepage
- Creating & organizing course content
- Working with assessments, assignments, discussions, and rubrics
- Use the Grade Center
- Set release criteria and facilitate communication
This module is offered entirely online and is self-paced. Expect to spend 2 – 4 hours to work on the content. Because of the format for this workshop, registration will be open anytime through the end-date of each term.
eLearn Institute
Ready yourself for teaching online
New to online teaching? This workshop will help you prepare! Learn how to design, facilitate and assess online instruction to provide a quality learning experience for online students.
This online workshop focuses on the pedagogy of online learning and prepares instructors to develop and shape instruction for an online course at Chemeketa. It addresses online course design, development, and related issues. The activities support course development that is aligned with established best practices as exemplified by the Chemeketa Quality Online Instruction initiative (QOI) and Quality Matters standards.
Learner-Centered Outcomes
Workshop activities will allow you to develop and demonstrate the skills necessary to:
- Design and structure course materials, instructional activities, and assessments to meet Quality Online Instruction (QOI) guidelines and the adopted course outcomes.
- Shape, manage and sustain student interaction and engagement.
- Employ a variety of strategies to assess learning and support achievement.
- Explore emerging technology and various types of media to support instruction.
- Engage in personal reflection and evaluation
NOTE: Completion of this course is required of faculty accepting an assignment to teach an online course at Chemeketa Community College. This course needs to be taken the term prior to delivery of the online course. This workshop is entirely online with no required on-campus participation.
Hybrid Course Development Training
Prepare yourself for teaching blended and hybrid courses
DPR - Difference, Power and Responsibility
A Difference, Power, and Responsibility (DPR) course provides a framework within which students develop a critical consciousness of issues of difference and power in the United States in order to participate responsibly within a democratic society. General education credit courses with this designation fulfill the cultural literacy requirement of the Associate Arts Transfer (AAOT) degree. However, all programs and college degrees are enriched through the embedding of DPR in the curricula leading to the fulfillment of the college’s strategic intent.
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Inclusion and Accessibility webinar
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Podcast: Hub Talk
Hub Talk is a Ed Tech podcast hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation at Chemeketa Community College. Conversations touch on accessibility, emerging technology, pedagogy, and other topics relevant to teaching and learning.