Mountwest grant

WEST VIRGINIA

Mountwest Community and Technical College
Total Award Amount: $5,000,000

Mountwest seeks to provide a beacon for students seeking certificates and degrees by providing them with navigational guides and tools as well as faculty and staff with professional development and information-sharing systems. The navigational guides include: (1) peer coaches, professional counselors and faculty mentors who will work in cross-functional teams to ensure student progress; (2) student learning communities, which will be fostered using cohort-based education and collaborative learning models; and (3) employers who will be engaged through regional industry sector partnerships to provide cooperative education, internships and on-the-job training opportunities for students.

Ten States Receive Complete College America Challenge Grants

Sep 9, 2011 by Mary Fulton

In February, 2011, Complete College America (CCA) challenged all states – in particular, their governors – to a competition: Submit proposals to win a $1 million grant to increase college completion and close attainments gaps. Thirty-three states applied by the May deadline. The ten winners emerged by the end of August.

Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia will receive a cash infusion to increase attainment rates as part of the Completion Innovation Challenge. But CCA and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided funding for the initiative, expect the states to step up their performance by providing data and showing progress on common college completion metrics.

Online quality matters

Important links:

• SREB:  Standards for Online Professional Development
• SREB:  Standards for Quality Online Courses
• Journal for Interactive Online Learning
• Distance Teaching & Learning

NCAT: Developmental Mathematics Redesign

from Change Magazine by Carol Twigg

Course redesign is not about putting courses online. It is about rethinking the way we deliver instruction, especially large-enrollment core courses, in light of the possibilities that technology offers.

Redesigns in mathematics at NCAT partner institutions have:

• increased the percentage of students successfully completing a developmental math course by 51 percent on average (ranging from 10 to 135 percent) while reducing the cost of instruction by 30 percent on average (from 12 to 52 percent), and
• increased the percentage of students successfully completing a college-level math course by 25 percent on average (from 7 to 63 percent) while reducing the cost of instruction by 37 percent on average (from 15 to 77 percent).

Summer 2011 Activities

• Academic Council: CAP Program, Associate Dean Search
• Redesign Presentation at New River CTC Faculty Academy May 17th (Lewisburg, WV)
• WV Developmental Task Force Meeting, May 26th (Charleston, WV)
• Advanced Technologies Centers Meeting, May 31th (South Charleston, WV)
• NCAT Grant Meeting, June 2-4th (Dallas, TX)
• Blackboard Learn Training, June 9-10 (Fairmont, WV)
•  The Learning Summit, June 13-16 (Phoenix, AZ)
• Accuplacer National Conference, June 22-25 (Denver, CO)

Other stuff on Summer Agenda:

• Search Committee for Communications faculty
• Summer Orientation
• Math Bootcamp
• New faculty orientation

MAT 145 Fall 2011

Pearson MyMathLab course ID: mccomas60514

Can be purchased online at MyMathLab

Summer Academic Skills Center hours

May 16 – June 16 M-R 8:00 – 4:00

June 20 – July 21 M-R 8:00 – 1:00

Spring 2011 McComas MyMathLab

Spring 2011 McComas MyMathLab Course ID’s:

• MAT 096 (3:00pm)   mccomas90437
• MAT 145 (9:30 am)   mccomas84535
• MAT 145 (2:00 pm)  mccomas58958
• MAT 096 (Online)    mccomas32156

Intro to MCTC Library Services

Introduction to Library Services at MCTC

Using MCTC’s Blackboard

A guided presentation on using MCTC Blackboard….