iStream and NROC: Bringing Innovative Tools to your Desktop

iStream and NROC: Bringing Innovative Tools to your Desktop

Wendy Neil, iStream Membership DirectorTerri Rowenhorst, NROC Membership Director

iStream supports this mission by providing:

quick links to books, monographs and special reports thought-provoking learning guides to promote discussion searchable database of best practices and innovations easy access to professional development opportunities

The League Mission: Catalyzing the Community College Movement

The Goal: To build a growing library of high-quality undergraduate, high school, and advanced placement courses to be distributed at little or no cost to students and teachers worldwide.

Supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Sustained by institutional members of the NROC Network:

Educators, designers, technologists, and administrators working together to promote access to educational opportunity through collaborative development of high-quality online content and instruction.

What is NROC?A non-profit effort to distribute Open Educational Resources (OER)

A Powerful Partnership to Serve Community Colleges

Support for Innovation Professional Development Opportunities Tools for Collaboration Shared Resources and Research

Administrators Support ∞ Professional Development ∞ Research ∞ Resources

League Projects and Interviews

Conference Sessions

Publications

CEO Surveys

Faculty and Staff Support ∞ Professional Development ∞ Research ∞ Resources

• LENS modules

• Digital publications

• Webinars

• Content Resources

Research support for graduate students

Support for Student Leadership Academy

Multimedia iPod Objects

• Homework Help

Students Support ∞ Professional Development ∞ Research ∞ Resources

Open Educational Resourcesfor individual student and instructor support

Vetted, curricular content for both secondary and post-secondary

Complete course foundations with a flexible learning object structure

Sustaining membership to maintain and grow the repository

NROC: Unique among OERs

Value of Membership Member institutions may adapt NROC material to:

Develop shared curriculum Enhance existing online curriculum Distribute in a variety of ways

and to support institutional innovation…. Develop shared curriculum Reach new audiences (dual enrollment) Seed a repository Make textbooks optional

Step up the Value discounted NROC Network membership

High School Course Foundations

College Prep Physics ICollege Prep Physics IIAlgebra 1a Algebra 1b Curso de Algebra 1A (Spanish)Curso de Algebra 1B (Spanish)

College Course Foundations

US History IUS History IIAmerican GovernmentReligions of the WorldPsychologyElementary AlgebraIntroductory Calculus I Introductory Calculus II General Calculus I General Calculus IICalculo General I (Spanish)Calculo General II (Spanish)Statistics for the Social Sciences Introductory Physics I (algebra-based)Introductory Physics II (algebra-based)General Physics I (calculus-based)General Physics II (calculus-based)Non-Majors BiologyEnvironmental Science

Advanced Placement Course Foundations

AP Environmental ScienceAP Physics B IAP Physics B IIAP Physics C IAP Physics C IIAP US History IAP US History IIAP US Government and PoliticsAP Calculus AB IAP Calculus AB IIAP Calculus BC IAP Calculus BC IIAP Biology

Coming in 2010Algebra 1 (NEW)

NROC Library - 2009 NROC content resources

for institutional applications

Top Reasons to Maximize iAdvantage

Content resources and research tools

Professional development opportunities

Bring conference highlights to your campus

Support for innovation

Something for Everyone on Campus!

Support Innovation

Newsletters seed campus listservs and blogs

Encourage networking

Brown bag lunches for webinars

Tutoring support

Cooperative curriculum development

Blended learning environments

Inter-institutional

collaborationQuality

initiativesAdjunct support

Tech-savvy workforce

Student engagement

Contact us with questions:

Wendy Neil, iStream Membership [email protected]

Terri Rowenhorst, NROC Membership [email protected]