Presentation about the educational technology landscape to new VCCS faculty at the annual New Faculty Seminar.

1. Teaching the Future
Workforce
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The ABCs of VCCS
Educational Technologies

3. • https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=1hoTOkgIf1k

4. A is for ART

5. http://www.lifebeforethedinosaurs.com/

6. I chose to do this posting to pat on the back an
eight year old named Art who has a terrific blog.
If you like dinosaurs, this is the blog to check out.
In today's blog update I have included a few
examples of his postings just to wet your
appetite. I have also paraphrased some of the
information researched and written by Art.
Given the quality of the blog produced by
someone so young, I think that Art has an
extremely bright future. If you want to learn
more about Life Before Dinosaurs please check
out Art's blog at

12. is for

13. is for
Badges

14. is for
Blackboard

15. • LEARN
• COLLABORATE
• MOBILE
• STUDENT SERVICES

17. is for Creativity,
Collaboration, Critical
thinking, and
Communication (4Cs)

18. Joe Lencioni, http://shiftingpixel.com
collaboration,
knowledge construction,
skilled communication,
global awareness,
self-regulation,
real world problem solving,
use of technology for
learning

19. 21ST CENTURY SKILLS AND
THE WORKPLACE
A 2013 MICROSOFT PARTNERS IN
LEARNING AND PEARSON FOUNDATION

21. Why digital skills are
essential for providing
critical workplace
preparation?

22. Real world problem solving is the significant
driver of higher work quality.

24. “The research from this study
shows the connectedness and
positive correlation between
development of 21st century skills
in the last year of school, student
aspiration and engagement in
school, and higher quality of work
later in life.”

25. “Of the constructs assessed in
this study, real world problem
solving and good student-teacher
relationships are two of the
primary drivers of higher work
quality later in life.”

26. “These data also show that in
order to have a true impact on
future work quality, the
development of 21st century skills
must be experienced by students
frequently and consistently.”

27. is for the
Chancellor’s Innovation
Fund (CIF)

28. is for Digital
Literacy

30. “While 81.4% of respondents listed faculty development as
their top priority, only 27.9 % rated their existing training
offerings as excellent (or a seven on a seven-point scale). At
12.8 %, IT training for students drew the second-lowest share
of respondents giving it an excellent rating.”
2014 Campus Computing Project

31. is for
Distance
Learning

33. fully
online
degree
programs
80

34. 22.4%
25.0%
27.6%
30.7%
32.0%
38.5%
43.7%
47.2% 49.7%
10.7%
12.5%
13.6% 16.3%
17.2%
20.5%
23.1% 25.0% 26.7%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Mid-
Term
VCCS Percent Distance Learning of Annual Headcount and FTES
Headcount FTES

35. is for Educause Center for
Applied Research (ECAR)

36. is for ELET*
*eLearning & Educational Technology Committee

37. is for the
Future
Workforce

41. Future
Jobs,TODAYGIS Data
Processing
Engineer
(Google)
BI Engineer,
Social
Advertising
(Amazon)
Watson
Ecosystem
Evangelist (IBM)
Big Data
Architecture,
Global Lead
(Coca-Cola)
Talent Research
Specialist
(Google)
Economic Model
Coordinator
(Shell Canada)
Product Owner,
GE Intelligent
Products (GE
Energy)
Revenue
Manager
(Starwood
Canada)
Robotic Experts
(Bombadier)
Worldwide
Intellectual
Property
Director (Agco)
Rapid Product
Development
Entrepreneurs
(Facebook)

43. is for Global

44. is for
Google

48. Gmail
Calendar
Sites
Groups

49. Drive
Docs
Presentations
Spreadsheets

50. Drive
Docs
Presentations
Spreadsheets

51. is for
Horizon
Report

53. is for
Innovation*
*see CIF

54. is for
Innovative
Faculty
https://lists.vccs.edu/lists/listinfo/vccs-innovative-faculty

55. is for…I got
nuthin’

56. is for Kangaroo,
Captain

57. L
is for Library
Resources

58. http://library.vccs.edu/reference/locate.html

59. http://vccs.libguides.com/

60. is for Mobile

61. MOBILE
BY 2016, 80% OF
INTERNET USERS
WILL ACCESS THE
WEB WITH A MOBILE
PHONE* *Boston Consulting Group

62. is for New
Horizons
New Horizons Conference
April 13-15, 2016

63. is for Open
Educational
Resources (OER)

64. Open Educational Resources
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching,
learning, and research resources that reside in the
public domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license that permits their free use
and repurposing by others.

68. is for
Professional
Development

70. is for Peer
Groups

71. is for Quality
Matters

73. is for real world
problem-solving

74. 21ST CENTURY SKILLS AND
THE WORKPLACE
A 2013 MICROSOFT PARTNERS IN
LEARNING AND PEARSON FOUNDATION

75. “Of the constructs assessed in
this study, real world problem
solving and good student-teacher
relationships are two of the
primary drivers of higher work
quality later in life.”

76. is for Respondus:
Lockdown Browser
StudyMate
Respondus 4.0

77. is for Smart
Machines

78. is for Shared
Services Distance
Learning (SSDL)

79. NVCC
1. BRCC
2. CVCC
3. DSLCC
4. ESCC
5. GCC
6. JTCC
7. MECC
8. NRCC
9. PDCCC
10.PHCC
11.PVCC
12.RCC
13.SVCC
14.SWCC
15.TNCC
16.VHCC
17.VWC
18.WCC

80. is for Teaching
and Learning

81. is for
TOTAL*
Workshops*Topics in Online Teaching and Learning

82. is for
Unbelievably
Awesome
Faculty

83. is for the
VCCS

84. The Virginia
Community
College System
(VCCS) is not the
same as the
System Office

85. is for Wizard,
Virginia
Education

88. is for
xpLOR

89. is for You

90. is for

91. is for Z-Degree
and the Zx23
Project

92. Z Degree°
Associate of Business
Administration
World’s first “all-OER” degree

93. Zx23 Project
16 colleges
awarded Zx23 grants
6 degree programs
1. Business
Administration
2. Business
Management
3. Criminal
Justice
4. General
Education
5. Liberal Arts
6. Social Science

95. “It's easy to say preserve the best of the old and
combine it with the best of the new, but in a
revolution, the best of the new is incompatible
with the best of the old. It's about doing things a
whole new way. -Clay Shirky

96. • Richard Sebastian, Ph.D.
• Director of Teaching and Learning
Technologies
• (804) 819-4795
• rsebastian@vccs.edu
• http://edtech.vccs.edu
• @rasebastian
Contact me