The Storm Report, a newsletter produced by Nathanael Gough, Phil Tietjen and Dori Lloyd
December 2, 2021 | Issue 12
Table of Contents:

  • Center for Teaching and Learning

  • Quick Takes from Learning Design

  • Share Your Thoughts

  • Effective Teaching Online Course

  • Do You Have a Story to Share?

  • Teaching, Learning, and Global Engagement Program Offerings
Center for Teaching and Learning
Greetings, Colleagues!

Here are some updates and reminders from the CTL.

  • The CTL and Learning Design are teaming up to facilitate a faculty learning community built around learning to write and use SLOs that support student learning. If you are interested in joining an SLO Faculty Learning Community during Spring 2022, please complete the interest form by December 10th.  

  • The CTL would also like to remind everyone that we have funding to distribute for individual and small group professional learning. The submission deadline for applications is December 3rd. 



  • DDCC faculty have the opportunity to join a free trial of Nearpod, an active learning application. For more information about Nearpod, please watch this introductory video. If you would like to join the trial group, please contact Debra Ford.

  • Finally, the CTL will be hosting an Adjunct Faculty Spring Institute on Culturally Responsive Teaching. The institute will be limited to 8 adjunct faculty. Participants will receive a $500 stipend.  The application deadline is Friday, December 10th.

Happy teaching and learning,

Gloria.
2021-2022 CTL Advisory Board

At Large: Michael Liu (FT), Arts, Science, Business, and Technology: Grant Jolliff (FT), and Aaron Prillaman (PT), Davie: Dee Edwards (FT), and Katrena Wells (PT), Health Sciences: Datra Delk-Patrick (FT), Teaching, Learning, and Global Engagement: Nathanael Gough (FT), Faculty Chair: Gloria Johnson (FT)
Quick Takes from Learning Design!
  • Community-Powered Learning! Let us know what areas of instructional technology and/or design you’d like to learn more about via this 1-question form

  • Do you teach in the area of Anatomy or Physiology? Good news! There’s a new addition to the “STATRef” database in openNCCC titled, “Primal Pictures.” It is a set of 20 interactive modules focused on anatomy and physiology. Access to Primal Pictures material (Note: you first need to login to openNCCC)

  • Want to chat with other educators about Distance Learning? openNCCC has a Distance Learning group where you can meet, ask questions and share resources with other NC Community College educators
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Share Your Thoughts!
Did you know that Learning Design has a web page of Moodle video tutorials?
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Effective Teaching Online Course
The Effective Teaching Online course is an asynchronous, six week course designed for instructors who are teaching online or hybrid courses at DDCC. Instructors who teach in person and use Moodle to support their pedagogy will also find the course to be beneficial. The spring section runs from January 24 to March 6, facilitated by Amy Holmes.

Course Description
This course is designed to help instructors design and deliver effective online instruction using evidence-based practices.

Student Learning Outcomes
After completing this course, you should be able to:
  • Design a course introduction that includes core components for teaching online
  • Demonstrate social presence by collaborating with peers
  • Design active learning assignments that promote higher order thinking
  • Apply Community of Inquiry principles to promote teaching, social, and cognitive presence in an online course
  • Create alignment among objectives, assessments, and course materials
  • Design an accessible course page in Moodle
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From the Editors: Do You Have a Story to Share?
We are looking for faculty stories! We want to keep the focus of your newsletter on you, the faculty. Would you please help us find those stories? Here are the kinds of things we are looking for:

  1. Faculty who have globalized their courses.
  2. Faculty who are doing something creative in class
  3. Faculty who have received awards
  4. Faculty reporting out on what they got from their professional development (could be written, video, podcast, etc.)
  5. Faculty who have received a new degree
  6. Faculty who are retiring
  7. Faculty Division Chair / Program Director Bios
  8. Faculty sharing their experiences of teaching in an active learning classroom
  9. Faculty Senate initiatives
  10. Faculty who have led overseas trips with students

Please contact one of the editors (Nathanael Gough, Phil Tietjen or Dori Lloyd) if you have ideas or referrals for stories.
Teaching, Learning, and Global Engagement Program Offerings
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