Posts filed under ‘Announcements’
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
WAOL Downtime Saturday: 6am – 6:30am
FYI: WAOL.org will be down Saturday morning between 6am and 6:30am. This means that along with WAOL.org, all of our custom services will be offline for that time: ANGEL Secure Logon, Faculty WAOL Nugget, and College Portal ANGEL SSO.
ANGEL Patch “Access Denied” Problem Fixed
ANGEL applied a fix for “Access Denied” problem this morning, Wednesday, October 19th and everything looks to be fixed. Secure log-on has also been re-enabled.
Please check it out, and report any “Access Denied” problems to the ANGEL support ticket.
Case #896256 – Getting Access Denied when logging on as a user via Admin Account
ANGEL Login Issues
Who: Faculty, Students and Administrators
What: Some faculty and students have had problems logging into ANGEL, seeing an Access Denied message and having to repeat the login several times. This problem was fixed, as of 10/11/2011 5pm PDT by changing our Logon nugget to use the standard mode of logging into ANGEL. Administrators may still encounter this problem when using the Logon As feature within the ANGEL Account Manager.
Next Steps: Bb Support is looking at the “Account Manager Logon As” problem and hoping to quickly have a fix for our ANGEL installation, but we don’t have an estimate as to when this might be.
More Info: ANGEL Service Pack 14 seems to have caused a problem with the Logon As and authentication pass-through features within ANGEL. This problem seems to be isolated to ANGEL installations, like ours, with multiple domains.
The ANGEL Logon is currently operating in ‘normal’ mode and so users should be cautioned against logging into ANGEL while using an unsecured (open) Wi-Fi connection.
Your Country Needs You! Register and Vote!
Oct. 10 is the online voter registration deadline prior to the November 8 General Election. (Oct. 31 is the in-person voter registration deadline.)
Open Course Library Wins OCW’s People’s Choice Award
Audience: All Users
News: The State Board’s Open Course Library (OCL) wins OpenCourseWare’s (OCW) People’s Choice Award for Most Accessible. In addition to the award it was also mentioned that voters liked that the OCL’s focus is targeted on lowering costs of textbooks for students.
To read more review the winner profile.
Fall ITT Deadline – WAOL Shared Courses ONLY
Audience: eLearning coordinators and faculty teaching WAOL ***shared*** courses
Notice: The deadline for approved Intent to Teach forms for faculty who plan on teaching any WAOL system-owned shared course Fall quarter is Monday, August 29th.
A few points:
- We will start assigning the WAOL shared course sections based on seniority and approved ITT forms on Tuesday, August 30th.
- If we do not get the ITT’s for WAOL system-owned shared courses submitted and approved by the deadline then those instructors will go to the bottom of the list of instructors teaching spring quarter.
Instructions on how to submit Intent to Teach forms here: http://waol.org/instructor-intent-to-teach-form
Blackboard Mobile Presentation Today & Tuesday, August 9th
Audience: Anyone
When: Today, Tuesday, August 2nd and next week, Tuesday, August 9th, 1 – 2 pm.
What: Opportunities to see a Blackboard Mobile demonstration. The presentation will include examples of other successful implementations centered on value added to enriching the student experience with anywhere, anytime learning.
Where: Blackboard Collaborate Session, audio bridge also available, dial 866-290-9533, PIN #996 911 98034
Cancelled Summer Shared Courses (Update)
Audience: ELC, faculty & registrars
Here is an updated list of Summer SHARED courses that have been canceled due to low/no enrollments.
Cancelled WAOL Summer Courses:
#5101 – WAOL Human Relations
#6003 – WAOL Managerial Accounting
#6102 – WAOL Financial Accounting I
#6104 – WAOL Governmental Accounting
Cancelled WAOL System-Owned Shared Summer 11 Course:
#2002 – WAOL Understanding Diversity
#7001 – WAOL Medical Terminology I
#7002 – WAOL Medical Terminology II
