A few of the great things going on in EET . . .

Project planning started on development of Digital Learning Objects for Trades (Welding and Electrician)

Tablet Project (Ed Tech Innovation Committee): 14 instructors have iPads or Android tablets in their hands.  

Orientation activities for new instructors - significant amount of work done for August / Sept;  currently debriefing.  We’re also talking to HR and to the Registrar’s Office about collaborating on an online resource (one-stop-shop) for primarily new instructors.

College-wide outcomes - Implementation:  We’ll be broadening the team involved with this project to include instructional designers and other College resources.

30-60-120:  This is the conversion from credits to units of learning that Karen O’Dwyer explained in a email about a week ago.   This impacts EET in a number of ways:  Potential curriculum redesigns, which could impact online course development projects, instructional practices, BYOD etc. etc.

Completion of Classroom Technology Upgrades - 57 Smartboards and teaching stations installed over the summer!

DL Strategy Implementation:  Complete the final documentation of the third and last year of the DL Strategy implementation.  This includes sending out surveys to both students and instructors, documenting Angel logins, charting trends of enrolment in online courses, etc.   The biggest challenge will be to really understand the level to which instructors are incorporating blended learning into their teaching.

Fitness Challenge and Poker:  Thanks to Jackie for getting this fitness challenge going.   Who knew we would be playing poker once a month in EET as part of a fitness challenge?   I had to leave the game early but somehow still won the pot (I think thanks to Christie and her amazing poker face :).   The pot this month will be donated to food for one of our functions.  I’d encourage everyone to get involved in this challenge through the fall and into the winter.

Refresh Conference Committee - starting to plan for May 2013 Conference

Flexible Learning - launch of new website that allows students to search for specific instructional methods and locations.  For example, only online courses . . .

and we’ll keep adding to this list!