A Team Approach to the Institutional Adoption of Digital Learning
Concurrent Session 3
Brief Abstract
This session is focused on a story of collaborative leadership innovation. Community college leaders work hard to support their students and provide access to affordable, quality programs. In the midst of a global pandemic, this work becomes even more challenging, forcing leaders to quickly problem-solve under high stakes circumstances. At Northcentral Technical College, leaders rose to the challenge.
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Extended Abstract
This session is focused on a story of collaborative leadership innovation. Community college leaders work hard to support their students and provide access to affordable, quality programs. In the midst of a global pandemic, this work becomes even more challenging, forcing leaders to quickly problem-solve under high stakes circumstances. At Northcentral Technical College, leaders rose to the challenge.
Northcentral Technical College is located in Wasau, WI and enrolls 12K students across NTC’s 120 programs. A member of the Wisconsin Technical College System, NTC is a comprehensive community and technical college serving suburban and rural counties. In describing her role as Executive Dean of Academic Excellence, Emily Stuckenbruck says she “speaks both academics and IT”. This was extremely helpful in establishing NTC’s online programs but also in weathering the challenges of COVID-19. Prior to the pandemic, NTC adopted an institution-wide subscription to a complete catalog of digital course materials from Cengage. This was done to lower student costs and provide a digital learning infrastructure across the institution. Having this resource in place made the COVID-driven transition to remote learning an easier one with 80% of learning uninterrupted. Dean of Academic Technology Jon DeGroot was Emily’s partner in implementing the rollout of this catalog across programs and courses at NTC. The Cengage team played a vital role in this accelerated migration to new, digital course materials. Services and professional development as well as student support were all provided during the rollout and throughout the spring and fall of 2020. Andrea Iorio, NTC’s account manager, will share the partner’s perspective in this inspiring story.
Learning Outcomes:
- Discover how collaborative leadership innovation can drive positive change at your institution.
- Learn how digital learning strategies support both your students and your institution.
- Hear how a system-wide subscription to a complete catalog of digital course materials provides affordability and quality learning.