1. iStream and NROC: Bringing Innovative Tools to your Desktop Wendy Neil, iStream Membership Director The League for Innovation Terri Rowenhorst, NROC Membership Director Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

2. Supporting the League Mission: Catalyzing the Community College Movement iStream supports this mission by providing: easy access to professional development opportunities quick links to innovative books, monographs and special reports thought-provoking learning guides to promote discussion searchable database of best practices and innovations

3. A repository of high-quality undergraduate, high school, and Advanced Placement course foundations to be distributed at little or no cost to students and teachers worldwide. Through this project, NROC achieves other important outcomes: increasing access to high-quality content designed for online learners helping establish content and technical guidelines for online courses fostering collaboration among content developers and users promoting the scholarship of teaching addressing the needs of underserved students supporting the Open Educational Resource movement

4. A Powerful Partnership to Serve Community Colleges  Support for Innovation  Professional Development Opportunities  Tools for Collaboration  Shared Resources and Research

5. Support for Innovation: Administrators  Focus on League Projects  10 Questions  Tools for Evaluating Quality  Support of the Open Educational Resources Movement Investigate Best Practices!

6. Support for Innovation: Faculty, Staff and Students Multimedia iPod objects to support instruction Use iStream digital publications resources to support campus discussions and events Launch a Discussio n

7. Support for Innovation: Students  Offer students iPod downloads  Link to free online homework help from your student services or tutoring site

8. Professional Development: Administrators  Leadership Development Resources  Conference Keynotes  Leadership Abstracts  Special Sessions Bring a League Conference to your campus!

9. Professional Development: Faculty & Staff Tools to support Quality Teaching and Learning  Webinars on new technologies delivered to the desktop  Participate in Social Authoring  Discounted TLT Membership  LENS modules Create an E-learning Adjunct Module!

10. Professional Development: Students Focused Learning Activities Support for Student Leadership Academy Anytime/anyplace access Research support for graduate students and future teachers Assign Learning Abstracts or Publications!

11. Resources and Research: Administrator CEO Surveys Connect with other Leaders!

12. Resources and Research: Faculty & Staff  Publications  Learning Abstracts  League Books  Thematic monthly updates  Discounted NROC Membership for online course development resources Enrich your Digital Newsletter!

13. Collaborative Tools and Community Building  Share comments on resources  Follow project developments  Learning guides and discussions  Social Authoring & more at the NROC Network Challenge staff to participate

14. Social Authoring Editorial Design Engineering Delivery Collaborative Team Social Authoring In Development: Introductory Psychology Non-majors Biology Developmental Studies (Reading, Writing, ELL, Math)

15. Top Reasons to Maximize iAdvantage  Support for Innovation  Professional Development Opportunities  Shared Resources and Research  Tools for Collaboration and Community Building  Bring conference highlights to your campus  Powerful Partnerships like NROC  webinars to support teaching with technology  iPod content resources  discounted OCEP Course Evaluations  discounted membership opportunities Something for Everyone on Campus!

16. Step up the Value: Join NROC at a discount  Right to host all content locally  Liberal rights-of-use and distribution  Additional course resources  Technical support and services  Downloadable PodCasts and MP3 files  Professional development resources at the Network  Support of OER as a tool for educators worldwide

17. Open Educational Resources www.hippocampus.org montereyinstitute.org/nroc/nrocdemos.html Available from NROC for individual use

18. What is an NROC course? 2006-07 Course List

19. Contextualized Learning Object Interactive Exercise Documents Newsreel Documentary Video Text Graphics

20. Instructor Presentation Advanced or Remedial Study Lower-Level Course Reassembling by Purpose

21. NROCNetwork.org provides… Additional Content, Updates, Support (FLORA) Professional Development: Webinars, Articles, Discussions Connection to ideas and content from other NROC Members Collaborative Workspace

22. Maximize iAdvantage: Become a Supporting NROC Member Regular Institutional Membership Fee: Two-Years Unlimited Use: $25,000 Discounted Rates to iStream Members (Annual) FTE Less than 3,000 $3,000 FTE 3,000-4,999 $4,000 FTE 5,000-9,999 $5,000 FTE 10,000-14,999 $6,000 FTE 15,000-19,999 $7,000 FTE: 20,000 plus $8,000

23. Access this presentation at the NROC Network Commons: http://www.nrocnetwork.org/nroc_commons?go=z1093014 http://www.nrocnetwork.org/nroc_commons?go=z1093014 Contact us with questions: Wendy Neil, iStream Membership Director neil@league.org Terri Rowenhorst, NROC Membership Director trowenhorst@montereyinstitute.org

24. Continuous Improvement The Evaluation Team Project Director Academic Evaluator Instructional Design Evaluator Technology Evaluator OCEP Evaluation Categories Scope and Scholarship User Interface Course Features and Production Values Assessments and Test Items Instructor and Learner Communication Technology Distribution Model http://edutools.info