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Excellence in ONLINE Teaching Award (EOTA) 2021/22

We are excited to see the nominations for the 2021/22 VCAA Excellence in Online Teaching Award (EOTA) coming in. Thank you so much for nominating so many deserving individuals.

We know it has been a tough year for all of us, and teaching & learning online can be very challenging. So if you had the chance to take an online class at KapCC with a teacher that made online learning engaging and fun, providing you with valuable resources and the support you need to succeed, then consider nominating this individual for the EOTA. This award recognizes outstanding educators who teach online courses at Kapi‘olani Community College.

You may nominate any faculty member who has taught at least one online class at Kapi‘olani CC in the previous or current year and exhibits an extraordinary level of online teaching effectiveness, exceptional course design and creativity, and regular and substantive interaction that benefits students.

Please submit your nominations via this Google Form! Individuals must receive at least three independent nominations from a current Kapi‘olani CC student, colleague, or community member to be considered for the award. Nominations will close on Sunday, December 5, 2021. Thank you for your nominations.

Submit a Proposal to Present at TCC Worldwide Online Conference 2021

Aloha Kapi‘olani CC Ohana:

We know that you’ve all been working extra hard and rising up to the challenge of teaching online/hybrid during these unusual times. What have you done, what have you learned, and how have your students responded? Please share your experience(s) and insights at the TCC Worldwide Online Conference in April 2021! The conference will be entirely online so you can safely enjoy the fellowship with colleagues from around the world without leaving your home or office. Below is a call for proposals from the conference coordinators.

26th Annual TCC Worldwide Online Conference

THEME: Building Our Future & Movin’ On!

WHEN: April 13-15, 2021

Proposal Submission Deadline: December 21, 2020

Submissions: http://bit.ly/tcchawaii21

TCC Homepage: tcchawaii.org

Hashtag: #tcchawaii21

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Responding to the challenges of the global pandemic created opportunities and a need to innovate learning. What have we learned? What’s in our future for virtual learning? How do we support learners and educators?

TCC Hawaii invites faculty, support professionals, librarians, counselors, student affairs professionals, graduate students, administrators, and consultants interested in emerging learning technologies and practices to submit proposals for online presentations.

Conference theme

The TCC 2021 Online Conference invites proposals for presentations and papers relevant to emerging technologies, transforming learning, and virtual learning.

Conference coordinators are interested in examples of appropriate, innovative, and sustainable instructional delivery that have evolved out of the coronavirus pandemic; what we’ve learned, and what lies ahead to innovate learning.

The coordinators are also interested in building our community of colleagues. We encourage other interactive formats such as panel presentations and discussion, interactive workshops, educational technology tool demos, and forming special interest groups.

Suggested topics & full details

https://tcchawaii.org/tcc-2021-call-for-proposals/

Venue

Participation in this event is entirely online. All sessions are streamed in real-time. Sessions recorded for later viewing. For your info, recordings from our previous TCC 2020@25 may be viewed (without signing in):

https://2020.tcconlineconference.org/program/

Need More Info? Contact:

Bert Kimura <bert@hawaii.edu> or Curtis Ho <curtis@hawaii.edu>

TCC Hawaii, LearningTimes, & the Learning Design and Technology Department, College of Education, UH-Manoa collaborate to produce this event. Numerous volunteer faculty and staff worldwide provide additional support.

Fri 10/27 SPOTLIGHT Online Teaching: Student-Student Interaction

Join us on Friday 10/27/17 at 1:00 – 2:00 pm in Naio 203 to discuss how we can create opportunities for our students to engage with each other in online classes.

ACCJC’s new mandates for Distance Education (DE) include “regular and substantive interaction” between students, so this SPOTLIGHT session will feature DE teachers Nadine Wolff, Jim Shimabukuro, and Jaclyn Lindo, who will share the assignments, strategies, and/or tools they use to promote high levels of interaction between students in their online classes. Participants, too, will be encouraged to share.

Snacks will be provided. You can sign up here, or you can just show up and sign in at the session.

SPOTLIGHT Online Teaching sessions highlight the interesting work of DE teachers around specific topics or areas. Save these dates for the SPOTLIGHTs scheduled for Fall 2017:

Friday 9/22/17, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Naio 203: Faculty-Student Interaction (emails, feedback, individual encouragement, student conferences, etc.)

Friday 10/27/17, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Naio 203: Student-Student Interaction (discussion forums, group work, collaborative assignments, etc.)

Friday 11/17/17, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, Webinar: Gamification (leaderboards, reward systems, role play, etc.)

SPOTLIGHT Online Teaching: Student-Student Interaction