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Volume 3 Issue 11December 1999

@ONE Rolls Out New Courses for Spring 2000

Wendy Baker
@ONE Project, Communications & Outreach

Beginning in 2000, the @ONE Project, which is the statewide technology training initiative for faculty and staff of the California Community Colleges, will make available three new courses to campuses for use by faculty development trainers.

If your faculty has been seeking help with using Internet research for teaching and learning, or using simulations or multimedia presentations in teaching, these courses will be available for you to deliver in the Spring. The courses will be available at no cost to each campus.

According to Kenneth C. Green’s 1999 national Campus Computing Project data, "assisting faculty efforts to integrate technology into instruction remains the single most important information technology challenge confronting American colleges and universities." @ONE’s courses are in direct response to this need.

Kenneth Green’s data concludes that "what’s ahead for most faculty and most students is some kind of hybrid learning experience in which technology supplements, not supplants, both the content and the discourse that have been part of the traditional experience of going to college."

@ONE has purposefully avoided "technology for technology’s sake" in developing courseware. @ONE courses are designed to help faculty plan the process of thoughtfully integrating technology into the classroom, addressing learning goals and projected student outcomes.

Coming from a pedagogical standpoint, @ONE courses focus on benefits and challenges to using technology in the classroom, and take advantage of best practices of other community college faculty.

The @ONE Project is currently scheduling a series of Train-the-Trainer sessions at campuses that volunteer to host a session. The host requirements are minimal since the sessions are discussion style, and don’t require a computer lab. The purpose of the Train-the-Trainer sessions is to distribute course materials (CD–ROMs, course guides, etc.); describe the support that is available to Trainers; provide an overview of course content, such as tips to help Trainers focus on pedagogy; help Trainers adapt materials for their local campus environment; and discuss best practices for local delivery.

To host a session at your campus or for more details, contact Wendy Baker at WBaker@onemail.fhda.edu or visit our Web site http://one.fhda.edu. You may also call the @ONE office at 408-864-8250.

A Description of the New @ONE Courses
The multimedia and simulations courses are traditional classroom instructor led courses. The Internet research course will be accessible online as a self-paced tutorial or can also be delivered as a traditional classroom course led by an instructor. Course length typical runs approximately six hours. Following are descriptions of these courses.

Internet Research for the Classroom
In this training course, faculty will learn how and why to incorporate Internet research assignments into their courses. Participants will engage in hands-on activities, demonstrations, and discussions related to effective search strategies, evaluation of content, appropriate online research tools, online source citation, and instructional design issues. After completing this course, faculty should be well-prepared to assign Internet research tasks in their courses and expect positive student outcomes.

Using Simulations in Teaching and Learning
This course provides an introduction to simulations. It introduces the fundamental concepts that define simulations, exposes the participants to excellent examples of simulations, and invites the participants to discover the potential benefits of simulations in their own classrooms. Faculty will identify their students’ needs and teaching goals, learn to identify different categories of simulations, and learn how to search repositories, Web, and other resources for appropriate simulations.

Multimedia Presentations
This training course is under development, and will model good practices, give participants hands-on training in technical skills, and include the development of a project that can be used in the participant’s classroom. A major emphasis of the course will be the pedagogical reasons for and benefits of incorporating multimedia into classroom instruction.

To aid faculty of the California Community Colleges to keep pace, all campuses are invited to take advantage of these new training courses, to customize and adapt them as needed for local use, and use all of the related services @ONE has to offer.