Archive for November, 2011
WAOL Fall 11 Shared Course Instruction Ends Today
WAOL fall grades for ALL shared courses are due next Monday, December 5th, and need to be submitted no later than midnight or they do not get recorded and sent off to the students’ enrolling colleges.
Student access to their ANGEL fall classrooms will be turned off on Wednesday, December 7th. If there are any grade changes that need to be made after December 5th they will need to be emailed directly to our office. We will then make the change in the WAOL Fall 11 database and send them off to the appropriate college.
Click here for instructions on Web Grading and here for assigning an Incomplete Grade in a WAOL course.
Any grade changes made after December 5th, 2011 must be sent to: Monique Kovalenko (mkovalenko@sbctc.edu) and Brook Bane (bbane@sbctc.edu)
ANGEL Hosting Maintenance: Friday, November 11th
Notice from Blackboard Hosting:
On Friday, November 11th, 2011 we will be applying ANGEL 7.4 SP15 to your Hosted ANGEL environment. The maintenance window will occur between 2 AM and 5 AM of your local time. Please keep in mind that your site may be unavailable during this time period. We will also be applying any outstanding Windows updates during this time.
If you have any questions or concerns as it relates to this update, please let us know by e-mail, phone, or via a ticket in the Support Portal.
Press From Open Course Library Launch
Hot off the press…
Seattle Times: Low-cost textbooks for college students make debut
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016659112_opencourses01m.html
Plus a few others:
- Inside Higher Ed (Nov. 1, 2011)
- 97.3 KIRO FM (Oct. 31, 2011)
- opensource.com (Oct. 31, 2011)
- CBSPhilly.com (Oct. 31, 2011)
Open Course Library Launched
The highly anticipated Open Course Library was launched this morning during a telephone press conference.
During the call, reporters — from the Associated Press, Washington Post, USA Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Seattle Times, to name just a few — got in-depth information including new estimates of textbook savings to students and families, from our expert panel:
- Shaunta Hyde, State Board member, Director of Global Aviation Policy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Tom Caswell, SBCTC, project lead and Open Education policy associate
- Reuven Carlyle, Washington State Representative, 36th District (D-Seattle), early champion of Open Education Resources in the state
- Nicole Allen, Student Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) textbook advocate, and a nationally recognized expert on textbook costs
- Michael Kenyon, Green River Community College mathematics instructor
- Lindsey Cassels, Clover Park Technical College esthetics sciences student
More details:
Read news release Open Course Library launch marks the beginning of the end of $200 textbooks
Listen to telephone press conference
Visit the Open Course Library
The Student PIRGs conducted an informal study to evaluate the Open Course Library’s impact on textbook costs. Read the report: Affordable Textbooks For Washington’s Students: A Cost Analysis of the Open Course Library
