NC3DLA

November 2010

Joanne Grason, Annenberg Media

Karen Lynden, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

Agenda and Goals• Annenberg Media: a brief look over time

• Why Telecourses ?

• Preview: Physics for the 21st Century

• Preview: Invitation to World Literature

• Tools: online tools to enhance learning (Learner.org)

• Media: new ways of using Annenberg Media in your course (CollegeAnywhere)

• 1981: Annenberg Foundation established by Walter Annenberg

• 1982: Our first distance learning course: New Literacy: An Introduction to Computers (incidentally, produced by the Southern CA Consortium aka Intelecom)

• 1992: Launched our award winning Web site: learner.org

• 1993: The Annenberg Channel allows schools to access our collection through a 24/7 satellite feed

• 2001: We are the first educational video producer to stream our content online through learner.org

• 2003: Developed coordinated Web sites to enhance learning by adding online textbooks, guides, interactives, timelines, and glossaries to our video content

• 2010: Collaborate with College Anywhere of Camden County College, NJ to create a fully customizable streaming option

Why Telecourses?!

• Provides course content to students through video, print, and faculty/student interactions

• Viable for f2f, hybrid, and online instruction• VOD• Saturday Telecourse, best practice for students:

– F2f time but not 100% online– Are in our Nursing Program!– Working Parents– Typical age range: 25-45

Why Annenberg Media?

• Professional quality

• ADA Compliance

• Link to Website: green and efficient

• No additional costs to students or the college

• Over 800 enrollments each academic year

Student Testimonial

In January of 2006 I started here at RCCC. I was first introduced to Telecourse classes at this time. I found the whole Telecourse experience convenient, challenging, and wonderful… I am very proud to say I graduated from RCCC in May of 2010 with High Honors… and that the only way this was possible for me was through the DE program.

R. Price

• Our award winning Web site receives over 10 million hits monthly

• VOD: Video on demand 24/7• Coordinated Web sites for many series may

include: textbook, guide, glossaries, timelines, interactives

Diane von Furstenberg: (Portraits: Andy Warhol)

Physics for the 21st Century

• A multimedia course focusing on the frontiers of physics, grouped into three broad areas:– The Universe at it’s smallest (sub-atomic particle

physics)– The universe at an everyday scale (atomic and

molecular physics)– The universe at it’s grandest (cosmology)– http://www.learner.org/resources/series213.html

Black Holes: String Theory (Program 4)

Invitation to World Literature

• A multimedia course for teaching, appreciating, and reading works from many times and culture

• All the components bring together a mix of text, authors, scholars, writers, artists, and performers to entice students, and all readers into timeless tales.

• http://www.learner.org/resources/series212.html

Illustration of Mercundo location of 100 Years of Solitude

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• A fully customizable streaming content option• Current Feature:

– Multiple series bookmarking capability for use in online, hybrid, and f2f classroom environments

• Ability to incorporate programs from any series into any LMS• Closed captioned• Concurrent transcripts• Adaptable to any environment: PC or MAC• 24/7 help option for students and faculty• Learning Module creation tool• http://www.collegeanywhere.org

New & Coming

• New: Coordinated Web Site for Destinos

• Coming: Digital Downloads ( Dec, 2010)

• Updated Economics U$A (Fall, 2010)

• New Power of the Brain Series( Fall, 2010)

Raquel from Destinos

Booms & Busts: Economics U$A

Joanne Grason240.631.9546jgrason@comcast.net

Karen Lynden Rowan-Cabarrus Community

College704.216.3642karen.lynden@rccc.edu

Photo from THE HABITABLE PLANETSoberania Rain Forest, Panama