Reducing Costs of Textbooks and Open Source Textbooks

The new state-wide Strategic Technology Plan and web page http://www.sbctc.edu/docs/strategicplan/strategic_technology_plan.pdf and
http://techplan.sbctc.edu are now online.  Announced by Charles Earl, Executive Director, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.  The Strategic Technology Plan is the product of an 18-month analysis conducted by the Technology Transformation Task Force for the purpose of creating a roadmap for how our system needs to leverage 21^st Century technologies to support student achievement.

New Faculty Survival Guide  Created by AFTSeattle

Working with Non-Native Speakers of English

www.Lynda.com   Lynda.com is a library of on-line training tutorials that you can access from here, home, or anywhere on the internet.  There are numerous topics: MSOffice 07 apps, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Premiere, Blogging, iMovie, Ruby on Rails video and much more.  See your TLC coordinator to request a login.

Ohio Learning Network resources:   http://www.oln.org/ILT/supporting_faculty.php

Service-Learning is an educational approach that combines community involvement with academic instruction. Learn how four SCCC faculty from various disciplines have integrated service-learning into their curriculum and how they help students connect their community experience with classroom teaching.

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, a concise list of principles and practices to consider as guidelines for improving teaching and learning, and student success.

Professional Development the UDL Way from Renton Technical College

Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever

MERLOT Pedagogy Portal:  designed to help you learn about the variety of instructional strategies and issues that could help you become a better teacher. The resources you’ll find in the Pedagogy Portal should apply to teaching a variety of disciplines.

The Carnegie Mellon Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence has created an online tool that provides practical strategies to address teaching problems across the disciplines. These strategies are firmly grounded in educational research and learning principles. http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/solveproblem/index.html

The New Rules of Copyright
By Judy Salpeter
T&L contributing editor Judy Salpeter talks with Ahrash Bissell, Executive Director of Creative Commons' ccLearn division, about how schools can use online information the right way. Plus: Creative Commons at a glance and copyright Do's and Don'ts.

“Access to Learning” is a website and a CD designed to introduce the concept of online learning to public opinion leaders, potential students, and others who are unfamiliar with this instructional medium. “Access to Learning” includes interviews with higher education leaders explaining the value of and advances in online learning.

Current openings at all of the community and technical colleges in the Washington State system.

Tuition Waivers

Universal Design

ATL Digest - Assessment, Teaching and Learning Community listserv - from

Noreen Light,
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Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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Faculty Development at other Academic Institutions 

National and International Faculty Development

Diversity in Higher Education Sites