Instructional Technologists are Here to Help with Distance Education

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I'm Laura Knight, one of the ITDs at Oxnard College. People are my coffee. My passion lies in fostering student success through innovative teaching methods and personalized learning experiences across face-to-face, hybrid, and online modalities. With more than 20 years of instructional experience, I recognize that all faculty are unique subject matter experts. I love collaborating to help them learn new technology and design skills to support their student's success. 

My latest interests are in using Digital Storytelling and Gamification in education. Our stories create powerful connections. 

 ☎️ | 805-678-5302

 📨 | lknight@vcccd.edu

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My name is Eduardo Ruiz, and I am your part-time instructional technologist/designer. I'm passionate about integrating technology into teaching and have 12 years of experience helping teachers and faculty with their technology needs. As a problem solver, I enjoy tackling challenges and making things happen. In my spare time I enjoy cooking and spending time with family. I look forward to supporting you all in your online teaching journey!

 📨 | eduardo_ruiz6@vcccd.edu

 

  • Instructional Technology is a broad-based concept. Mostly, we help to make instructional applications available to faculty, staff, and students for teaching and learning. However, that entails several different responsibilities, including:
    • Sharing information about what technologies are available and promoting their use. 
    • Instructing and supporting faculty, staff, and students in the use of technologies. 
    • If you're an expert with a particular program, application, or system, let us know so that we can draw on that expertise for the benefit of the whole campus. If you'd like to become an expert with a system, let us know and we can help you work toward that goal.
    • Recommending the acquisition of technologies to both the local and district administrations. 
    • Supporting distance education. Since the VP of Instruction has overall responsibility for distance education, we'll be working with the VP and the Distance Education program in order to help improve effectiveness and accessibility.
    • We aim to be facilitators, advocates, and partners with everyone involved in instruction. We already have some plans underway that should get us off to a good start, and we hope to work with the campus community to make technology a valuable part of life at Oxnard College. 
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 Oxnard College uses Canvas as the cloud-based learning management system (LMS). This is the application that stores all the syllabi, media, links, documents, meetings and videos that faculty provide for instruction in our Distance Education courses.
OC Faculty Hub
 Faculty have access to a variety of just-in-time help from the Instructional Technologist Designers and through the OC Faculty hub. The hub has videos for continued training, guides, and other instructions. It is updated on a continuing basis, so please check frequently.

    Sign up for the Teaching Online Certification course

         Refer to the information on the Sign-Up form for session dates. 
         For more information, contact the OC ITD Team