eLearning Services
SBCTC eLearning will deploy new, system-wide teaching and learning tools only when we can:
- Determine new tools and services with ELC, IC and WACTC.
- Run RFPs with diverse system groups.
- Fund the new tool / service centrally – so all colleges, students, and faculty have access.
- Provide faculty and staff professional development on the new tool or service.
- Integrate the tool or service with existing WAOL-provided tools or services.
- Allow for local college branding and limited administrative control.
(WAOL) ANGEL (LMS, ePortfolio, learning object repository)
WAOL hosts colleges’ online, hybrid and web-enhanced courses on the ANGEL learning management system, with 24/7 help-desk assistance for students and faculty and rich professional development for college faculty. Since colleges pay incrementally by student, colleges have no long-term, up-front investment for software, servers, technical or help desk staff.
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SBCTC eLearning funds 24/7 user and administrator support for colleges using WAOL ANGEL.
SBCTC eLearning funds a media server for hosting large files for colleges using WAOL ANGEL.
- Colleges with extra seats in online courses can make those spaces available to students at other colleges.
- Colleges expand the breadth of online courses available to their students by adopting and offering classes taught by other colleges in their quarterly schedule.
- Colleges have developed almost 300 online courses that they have offered to other colleges.
- Benefits: Students get the courses they need; the teaching college runs a fully enrolled course; the enrolling college collects FTE and tuition money; the enrolling college pays teaching college an instructional fee to offset teaching costs.
- Participating colleges choose which courses to list in their own schedules.
- Showcase your college’s online degree and certificate programs.
- Advertise completely online courses or programs with free rotating ads.
Tegrity is a cloud-based lecture capture service that Washington community and technical colleges can use to automatically capture every class – non- and off-campus – for later review by every student, anytime, anywhere. The SBCTC contract allows unlimited use of Tegrity by anyone associated with our colleges.
For free professional development, support, and tutorials, please visit Tegrity Training Series page.
SBCTC eLearning funds unlimited use of Elluminate webinar Plan, Live and Publish tools.
SBCTC eLearning funds all system colleges who participate in this multi-state eTutoring consortium.
SBCTC eLearning partners with the Washington State Library to fund all system college libraries who participate in this global reference-librarian consortium.
SBCTC eLearning funds four Second Life islands for experimentation and real courses. Build your avatar and try your hand at immersive learning spaces.
Telecourses
- Since the mid-80s, telecourse distributors gave our college system a reduced licensing rate, due to the volume created through system collaboration.
- Licensing is coordinated through the SBCTC. Contact Jackie Eppler-Clark, 360-704-4351.
- SBCTC discontinued financial subsidy of telecourses as part of its 2009 budget cuts.
- Use of telecourses has declined over the years as online and hybrid enrollments have grown significantly.
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