Mid-Pacific ICT Center Quarterly Newsletter

 

2011

Quarter 4

Volume 13

2012 Winter ICT Educator Conference in San Francisco

For the 4th year in a row, MPICT and the National ICT Center NSF Advanced Technological Education Centers are partnering to create a Winter ICT Educator Conference, January 5-6, 2012, in San Francisco.

It is co-hosted by the new California Community College (CCC) ICT Collaborative, created by the CCC State Chancellor’s office with Perkins 1B funds to coordinate and improve ICT education at all 112 of California’s Community Colleges, and the BATEC and CSSIA NSF ATE National Centers.

The conference features an outstanding agenda of more than 50 presentations from ICT industry and ICT education representatives.

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MPICT Collaborating with BATEC National Center


MPICT has collaborated for several years with the Boston-area Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC) Center, an NSF ATE Regional Center, like MPICT, in Massachusetts.

 


BATEC is now a national NSF ATE Center, and MPICT is a sub-awarded partner with the new Center. We are expanding our collaboration to replicate and scale certain BATEC successes for impact in our region over the next few years.
 

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Inside This Issue:
Spring 2012 ICT Synchronous Online Courses

 

MPICT has been championing the use of online collaboration tools, like Blackboard Collaborate, Cisco Webex and Adobe Connect to improve community college ICT education.

These tools can be used in a wide variety of ways to positively impact student, instructor and department performance.

Among those is delivering instruction via these platforms. MPICT is currently promoting 19 courses offered in this manner in Spring 2012.
 

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