California Virtual Campus

While with any new technology there is a period of nervousness for teachers (more than students) in terms of training, course preparation, and implementation, if the nervous state of use quickly becomes habit, then the use of technology can become rote and meaningless for the student. Just as we all became so obsessed with […]

Every teacher wants to be the cool guy, the Robin-Williams-in-Dead-Poet’s-Society friend to students, but a court case from Connecticut offers a lesson to teachers-in-training: be careful when you buddy up to students online. While sites like MySpace make it easy to engage in casual contact with students, they also make it easy for the contact […]

We will be doing three sessions of GRAPE Camp this fall. GRAPE stands for “Getting Reviewers Accustomed to the Process of Evaluation,” and is a three week training webinar (one hour each week) for people to become Peer Reviewers. Once an individual “graduates” from GRAPE Camp, he/she will be assigned to an Editorial […]

New Teachers: Alone in the Classroom, Together in the Chatroom
Flint Christensen teaches math at a middle school in Oakland, CA. He is also a candidate for a MS in Education, Option in Online Teaching & Learning from California State University, East Bay.
Introduction
New teachers enter their profession with wild-eyed optimism and equipped with an abundant […]

Can you hear me now? Using online tools to connect with adjunct faculty.
by
Ann E. Shelley
Ann has been working as a California Community College adjunct instructor teaching English as a Second Language since August 2003. She is currently shuttling between Gavilan College in Gilroy and Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is also pursuing a Master’s Degree […]

The Foundation for California Community Colleges signed a five-year blanket purchase agreement with Regent Education to provide the 109 institutions consisting of more than 2.6 million students a way to implement Regent Enterprise. This financial aid management system, delivered as a Web-based service, supports multiple Pell IDs and multiple campuses from a single database, enabling […]

Mark Brazaitis worries that his university may sabotage the literary careers of his students.
As director of the creative-writing program at West Virginia University, Mr. Brazaitis oversees the training of about 30 graduate students, who hope to become published authors. At the end of their three years in the program, they hand in their magnum opuses, […]

By Herb Centeno
Introduction
As I began thinking about the importance of interactivity in on-line learning, the memory of a green plastic screen and a conversation I had with “Clarabelle” came back to me. The green screen was my first experience with an interactive medium for learning, and it obviously had quite an impact on me. In […]

Leadership Training and Online Learning; are these the equivalent to oil and water?
Online training or “e-learning” is here to stay. With higher costs of production and lost time to attend a face-to-face (F2F) or Instructor Lead Training (ILT) classes, organizations are learning to adapt and cope to the high cost of running a business […]

Debbie Wilson
California State University, East Bay
February 8, 2008
My finger hovered just above the “enter” key on my computer keyboard, then moved away, hovered again, and finally pressed the key that added my name to the roster for EDUI 7801, Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning. My reluctance to seal the deal gave me pause […]