Niagara County Community College (NCCC) is one of the 64 State University of New York (SUNY) campuses and a member of the SUNY Learning Network (SLN). The faculty development materials they create follow the course development and design process developed through … Read More
Innovator Webinar
Open Education Week Session: Creating Courseware using SoftChalk and Open Educational Resources
This presentation will highlight how two educators used SoftChalk to transform traditional flat texts into engaging, interactive OER course materials. As a key component of the Reading Curriculum Team for the Kaleidoscope Grant (https://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/), Jacqui Cain developed an interactive reader … Read More
Building Interactive Articles for Peer-Reviewed Journals with SoftChalk
Interactive articles (and e-books) are an enriched form of digital publication which may build in deep exploration, interactivity, and value-added learning for readers. These articles integrate multimedia and other digital contents, are accessible and have mobile friendly content. This webinar … Read More
How Georgia Virtual School addresses diversity with ReadSpeaker and SoftChalk
In this live webinar you will see how Georgia Virtual School uses ReadSpeaker’s online text to speech service, and SoftChalk’s eLearning authoring product, to help students get better access to, and understanding of, its courses. With ReadSpeaker, Georgia Virtual School … Read More
Funding OER: Sustainability
Open Educational Resources Series, Session 4: How do OER projects and programs get started? How are they maintained? Where are funding resources? Can OER projects work without external funding? These questions and more will be answered by our panel consisting … Read More
Online Teaching, Streaming Multimedia, Copyright – and all that Jazz
Imagine teaching music fully asynchronously as David Hooten does at McLennan Community College. How does he resolve the copyright issues with so much of his material? What kind of software can be integrated with SoftChalk to make an even richer … Read More