INTRODUCTION
About Madison College and The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Madison College is a two-year, urban technical college located in Madison, Wisconsin. The College offers over 140 associate degree, certificates and transfer programs and a multitude of non-credit classes. There are eight locations in Madison and four additional locations in nearby communities, serving a total of twelve Wisconsin counties. The College serves over 44,000 students each year.
Madison College's top 3 priorities 2011 – 2014 are:
1. Meet the access, learning and workforce needs of our students and community.
2. Retain students to completion
3. Improve facilities, systems and processes while meeting fiscal challenges.
Strategic Vision:
Transforming lives, one at a time
Strategic Mission:
Madison College provides accessible, high quality learning experiences that serve the community.
Madison College's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) provides training and support to the College's 400 full-time and 1100 part-time faculty through classes, workshops, webinars and consultations.
The Mission Statement of CETL is:
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will foster systematic growth and development of the Madison College Community members by:
The faculty members in CETL are responsible for teaching these seven classes.
Offering Certification Classes Online
Many of our part-time faculty work in their areas of expertise during the day. It is difficult for them to come to campus after a busy day at work and participate in a 3-4 hour evening class. By faculty request, we are offering some sections of all of our certification classes in an online format. Online learning is new to many of our part-time faculty and it is important they are introduced to it in a non-threatening, collegial manner. To better understand their experience with online learning as we begin a course, the faculty are asked to take a pre-course survey. This helps me to tailor the class to their needs.
Madison College's top 3 priorities 2011 – 2014 are:
1. Meet the access, learning and workforce needs of our students and community.
2. Retain students to completion
3. Improve facilities, systems and processes while meeting fiscal challenges.
Strategic Vision:
Transforming lives, one at a time
Strategic Mission:
Madison College provides accessible, high quality learning experiences that serve the community.
Madison College's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) provides training and support to the College's 400 full-time and 1100 part-time faculty through classes, workshops, webinars and consultations.
The Mission Statement of CETL is:
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will foster systematic growth and development of the Madison College Community members by:
- Ensuring shared best practices in learning and teaching.
- Offering dynamic, service oriented, integrated support to all employees for the improvement of learning.
- Facilitating change processes that provide dynamic, integrated support for the continuous improvement of learner Centered education.
- Facilitating scholarship, research and evidence in alignment with institutional planning and growth.
- Acting as a catalyst for cultural change within the Madison College Community.
- Providing resources through physical and virtual means.
- 50 – Curriculum and Course Construction
- 51 – Philosophy of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education
- 52 – Teaching Methods
- 53 – Educational Psychology
- 54 – Educational Evaluation
- 55 – Guidance and Counseling
- 69 – Educational Diversity
The faculty members in CETL are responsible for teaching these seven classes.
Offering Certification Classes Online
Many of our part-time faculty work in their areas of expertise during the day. It is difficult for them to come to campus after a busy day at work and participate in a 3-4 hour evening class. By faculty request, we are offering some sections of all of our certification classes in an online format. Online learning is new to many of our part-time faculty and it is important they are introduced to it in a non-threatening, collegial manner. To better understand their experience with online learning as we begin a course, the faculty are asked to take a pre-course survey. This helps me to tailor the class to their needs.
One of the classes I teach is Course #53 Educational Psychology.
Course Description: Participants use principles of educational psychology to develop their personal philosophy learning. Focusing on the importance of a learner-centered educational environment, they apply what is known about how people learn to the process of planning, evaluating, and improving the quality of teaching.(Educational Psychology Course Competencies).
This project is dedicated to improving that class with the information I learned in my University of Wisconsin-Stout class, Assessment in E-Learning.
Course Description: Participants use principles of educational psychology to develop their personal philosophy learning. Focusing on the importance of a learner-centered educational environment, they apply what is known about how people learn to the process of planning, evaluating, and improving the quality of teaching.(Educational Psychology Course Competencies).
This project is dedicated to improving that class with the information I learned in my University of Wisconsin-Stout class, Assessment in E-Learning.