Kickstart Your School Year With NISOD Virtual Learning!

As August begins and a new school year approaches, it's the perfect time to plan your professional development opportunities for the year ahead. At NISOD, we're here to support you with a wide range of resources designed to enhance your teaching and dedication to excellence. Explore our Virtual Workshops, Webinars, and Virtual Conference to discover innovative strategies, gain fresh insights, and ignite your passion for education. Let's light the fire and ignite inspiration for a successful and impactful year ahead!

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

How to Engage All Learners

Thursday, August 8, 2024 | 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Central

Join two educators with 40+ years of combined teaching experience to learn easy-to-implement strategies and techniques to promote student engagement in the classroom and online. This workshop highlights new instructional techniques, relationship-building, personalized learning, and tools for technology integration. Leave with numerous tools to add to your student-engagement toolkit that you can implement immediately. This session is applicable to professors/instructors at all levels and in all content areas.

Early Registration: NISOD Members: $100 | Non-Members: $150

Early Registration rates end on August 1, 2024 - Sign Up Now!

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WEBINARS

Beyond Conversation: An Action-Centered Approach to Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom

Thursday, August 29, 2024 | 1:00-2:00 p.m. Central

How can educators ensure that activities centered on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the classroom are meaningful for students? It's important that these activities don't just check a box. Students should be provided with meaningful experiences to help them develop into thoughtful citizens. This webinar highlights Madisonville Community College’s approach to DEI in the classroom, blended with a Student Learning Outcome process and action research. Through this process, instructors from a wide range of disciplines (i.e., general education, technical programs, health programs) have incorporated DEI into the classroom in meaningful and measurable ways.

NISOD Members: Free | Non-Members: $49 | Sign Up

ChatGPT Is Coming for Us All (or Not?): The Ethics and Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Thursday, September 26, 2024 | 1:00-2:00 p.m. Central

With the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) writing programs, such as ChatGPT, educators, students, and administrators face both opportunities and challenges. While these tools offer enhanced writing capabilities and learning experiences, they also pose potential risks when misused. This webinar offers a comprehensive look into the capabilities of AI writing tools, their projected trajectory in education, and recommendations for drafting rules and policies to regulate their use effectively.

NISOD Members: Free | Non-Members: $49 | Sign Up

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NISOD Virtual Conference October 16-18 2024

“If you have a desire to continue learning from your peers and to share your insights into techniques and processes that work for you and your institution, you must attend this conference! The variety of presentation topics is unmatched, and you are only limited by your own imagination!”

NISOD's Fall Virtual Conference offers 16 hours of live professional development as well as access to all the recorded sessions for continued professional development after the live event.

Session Tracks

Equitable Opportunities and Outcomes
Online, Face-to-Face, and Hybrid Teaching and Learning
Student Services, Support, and Success

Registration Options

Institutional Registration - Early Bird pricing through September 13, 2024

An Institutional Registration allows every employee to attend the live event or view the recorded sessions after the event at no additional cost.

Individual Registration - Opens September 13, 2024

An Individual Registration provides access to the live conference as well as the recorded sessions for three months following the event.

Interested in Presenting?

Do you have an innovative practice or cutting-edge research you want to share with your colleagues from around the world at NISOD's 2024 Fall Virtual Conference? You are invited to submit a presentation proposal by September 6. Presenters receive a free conference registration!

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IN THE HEADLINES

Community Colleges: Making the Most of Philanthropic Dollars to Bring Equity to Higher Education

Only a fraction of higher education funding goes to community colleges. Donors can get a lot more impact from their support by giving two-year institutions another look.

Opinion: Why corporate America has much at stake - and much to learn - from community colleges

Enrollment at the nation's public two-year colleges surged this fall by a healthy 4.4%, according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That's good news for employers who are scrambling to recruit new employees.

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