Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges

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eLearning Activities


SBCTC Trainings

Washington eLearning Trainings Schedule - If you have a CTC EL training that you would like posted, please contact Kayeri Akweks at kakweks@sbctc.edu.


Fall Quarter ELC Orientation is usually held the day before the fall DLC meeting. ELC Orientation Notebook is given out.

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SBCTC eLearning Trainings

WashingtonOnline provides training for both Instructors and Student Services staff. Our four-week, completely online courses are available to instructors and staff in Washington State at no charge. Use the links at left to learn more.

The contents of these training courses were developed under a grant from the Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships (LAAP), a program of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education.

Interested groups are invited to contact the course instructors for information on how to register for the course(s). We also invite inquiries from those wishing to collaborate to create similar courses in their own state or distance learning consortium.

"Teaching Online: Planning for Success"
Instructor: Jane McCarville
jmccarville@sbctc.edu / 509-434-5157

"Online Student Services: Strategies for Success"
(four modules taken one week per quarter)
Contact: Kayeri Akweks
kakweks@sbctc.edu / 360-704-4319

"Additional Blackboard Training: Assignment Course, Blackboard Short Course, Weighted Grades Course"
Instructor: Jane McCarville
jmccarville@sbctc.edu / 509-434-5157


National Training Events

Conference List 2007 | Conference Calendar 2007

September 2 - 4: Sixth International Internet Education Conference and Exhibition

September 12 - 14: Designs on eLearning Conference 2007

September 23 - 25: 6th Annual Rural Community College Alliance Conference

October 1 - 5: College Teaching & Learning (TLC) Conference

October 3 - 7: 7th Annual Lilly Teaching and Learning Conference

October 3 - 4: One Course Source - Open Source Conference (2007)

October 15 - 19: E-Learn 2007 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education

October 19 - 21: ASCD Conference on Teaching and Learning 2007

November 7 - 9: 13th Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks

ED-MEDIA--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications

Are you ready for an e-learning conference that emphasizes more than just theories and concepts? One that focuses on e-Learning development tools, best practices, and techniques? Are you ready for a conference that isn't going to empty your wallet? If you are, you're ready for e-Learning DevCon 2007!

E-Learn--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education

The Conference Database of the Distance Education Clearinghouse identifies worldwide conferences, seminars, workshops, and other events of interest to distance education and related fields. Events may be on site or online, but in all cases, the topic must always relate to distance education.

National Distance Learning Activities (as supplied by the USDLA).

Instructional Technology Council e-Learning is the Annual Conference for Distance Learning administrators, faculty, instructional designers, Web course developers, video producers, and continuing education professionals.

Academic Impressions is proud to offer focused, themed events on a variety of current topics in higher education.

The Horizon Wimba Desktop Lecture Series is a free, online presentation series that brings experts from the education and technology industries LIVE to the desktops of people throughout the world. Learn about topics such as instructional design, new technologies, e-learning pedagogy, and policy.

Use-It Conference – Web Site Usability Information.

Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
This premier event takes place every August in Madison, Wisconsin. The Conference maintains a year-round Web site, which features a searchable online Resource Library containing past papers and presentations. Every year, over 150 information sessions, workshops and keynotes are given by presenters at the conference.

23rd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
Monona Terrace Convention Center
Madison, Wisconsin
August 8-10, 2007

Governor's Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference (GWETC) GWETC brings together faculty, staff, and administrators from PK-16 schools, technical colleges, public and private higher education, state agencies and libraries, as well as training directors from business and industry.

SITE--Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference

Come and participate in the Learning in the 21st Century conference.  This event is geared toward providing solutions and new ideas to challenges that companies face with training in the 21st century. 

TelePresence World - A landmark summit on the emerging technologies of Telepresence, Presence, and Unified Communications. Over the next decade, virtually every Global 5000 company will adopt a technology allowing them to interact with people, no matter how far away, as if they were in the same room. The technology is called telepresence, and a variety of Fortune 1000 organizations already use it, reporting both satisfaction and a strong return on their investment.

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