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Overall Goals:

To facilitate partnerships that create efficiencies, enhance effectiveness, or hold great promise for creating new discoveries that demonstrate effective, innovative, network-enabled approaches to teaching and learning.

To identify effective online teaching and learning methods and to promote best practices.

To provide all faculty/teachers and students across the state with access to a thin layer of technology services (such as access to learning management systems), technical support, and professional development opportunities required to actively participate in online teaching/learning.

Objectives:

Communities of Practice -- Teaching Online:

1. To ensure that online instructors are adequately trained.
2. To provide a mechanism for ongoing collaboration among online teachers so that teachers can continuously improve their teaching methods and stay abreast of new technologies.
3. To enhance student learning.

Communities of Practice -- Subject-Specific:

1. To provide a mechanism for ongoing collaboration among educators involved in a common program and/or subject area so that educators can continuously improve their teaching methods, stay abreast of research findings, share resources, etc.
2. To enhance student learning.

Timeline for Completion:

Communities of Practice -- Teaching Online:
K-20 Conference: Summer 2008

Online presence: January 2009

Communities of Practice -- Subject-Specific:
Online presence: January 2009

Communities of Practice Committee:

Pat James, Co-Chair • @ One, Mt. San Jacinto College

Bill Doherty, Co-Chair • @ One, Evergreen Valley College

Todd Finnell • K12 High Speed Network, Imperial COE

Teri Sanders • K12 High Speed Network, Imperial COE

Links:

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