SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Springfield Technical Community College had a long-term plan to ramp up online and digital learning. But then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced instructional designers working as part of STCC’s Center for Online and Digital Learning to move faster than they ever imagined. To maintain the safety of students, faculty and staff, STCC moved classes […]

When students log in virtually on the first day of the new fall semester, they will begin an online learning experience that Springfield Technical Community College educators have been fine tuning all summer. Online learning offers flexibility and quality Mary Wiseman and Kyle Kraus, instructional designers at STCC, worked one-on-one with faculty to help them […]

STCC Around learn about online learning. June 16, 2020 radio interview.

Hello, The title of my EDU7244 curriculum poster is: Meet Them Where They Are! My essential question is: How can online faculty design their course curricular and pedagogical approaches to engage Hispanic students? The first version has bold-face-font on the authors. I thought that helped define and break up the body copy.  

Excerpt from the Finding My Way article Letters to a Young Education Reformer (2017) by Hess.  Jobs aren’t forever: step in, do some good, learn, grow and meet people Value in working from the inside and the outside. Opportunities as arrayed along a continuum that spans from inside to outside the halls of power. Insiders are […]

August 16, 2020 my classmate Brandee Idleman and I reviewed the text College (Un) Bound by Jeffery J. Selingo. This text is a bit dated [2013] however, its ideas ring true now in 2020. Listen to our thoughts.

Brene Brown shows us all how to create empathy. Be brave and learn how to create a genuine empathic connection to really get in touch with our own fragilities.

Dave Eggers Video I knew of McSweeney’s however, I didn’t know that Dave Eggers was affiliated. I’m sad the Dave Eggers video was presented the last week of this course -as an optional exercise -this was one of the best things that was offered in this particular course and it’s a bit sad that it […]

I was glad the text touched on ‘not giving up on students’.  So many times I hear faculty say,, ‘Oh, you know they try to get away with doing so as little as they can.’  OR ‘Well, so many are just low achievers.’ My blood boils when our faculty speak poorly of our students. They […]