Updates from the CVC

REGISTER NOW! OUR SUMMER CLASS SCHEDULE IS OPEN

The CVC’s summer course schedule is open for registration! Several courses are being offered, including:

• Creating Accessible Course Content
• Humanizing Online Teaching & Learning
• Introduction to Asynchronous Online Teaching & Learning
• Introduction to Course Design
• Online Teaching & Design
• Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching

To register, visit the Online Network of Educator’s catalog. Course registration fees vary and many are eligible for continuing education credits by dual-enrolling in TEC 1821 at Fresno Pacific University. 

The CVC recently made released adoptable versions of two courses – Intro to Live Online Teaching & Learning and Equity & Culturally Responsive Teaching.  Adoptable courses allow colleges to adopt or adapt them for use in a local professional development program. 

Several of the CVC-OEI/@ONE’s courses are available via  Canvas Commons, To find these adoptable courses:

• Go the the Canvas Commons
• In the search box at the top, enter “CVC-OEI Adoptable”

Before the pandemic, one in four community college students sought academic support from a tutoring center, and less than 15% of those tutoring sessions happened online. In the past 14 months, we have all put our tutoring programs online and trained our tutors to collaborate effectively and compassionately with online students. Most programs have experienced significantly higher volume of students seeking help online simply because there were no in-person options available to them. When campuses reopen, will students continue to seek online tutoring support now that they have more experience with it? Have they become accustomed to the convenience and comfortable with the technology? Join our tutor and student panel to hear what they say about the differences between online tutoring and in-person tutoring and how they feel about continued support of online tutoring.

Video can be a powerful medium for creating engagement and connection with your students. It can also backfire with the opposite effect when done poorly. (Hint: Just presenting content won’t do the trick.) Come learn five dynamic—and actually quite simple—tips for creating effective educational videos.

• The pandemic has caused many faculty members to question if traditional exams are a valid measure of student knowledge and whether or not they actually help develop the skills necessary to be successful beyond the classroom. Biology instructor Holly Schiefelbein chronicled her journey from traditional exams to authentic assessment in the CVC/@ONE article Time for a Change: Authentic Assessment in STEM.

• In spring 2018, Long Beach City College (LBCC) was ranked 113th out of 114 California Community Colleges for course-level student success. Students of color experienced the greatest obligation gaps in terms of course-level success, retention, and transfer; these gaps were exacerbated in our online classes. Clearly a change was in order. Learn more from Michael Robertson in his CVC/@ONE article, Conducting an Online Course Cultural Curriculum Audit: Steps Toward Student Equity and Success.