Text Only | Jobs | BCC Website  
Instructional Technology Banner
Go back one page.Initiatives

Current initiatives, in alphabetical order...

Classroom Response System (Clickers)
Classroom Performance Systems (Clickers) allow an professor to utilize PowerPoint to pose interactive questions to students, who then respond with a handheld "clicker"...allowing the professor to obtain real-time data on student comprehension and involvement.

Critical Care Nursing
The Critical Care Nursing program includes critical care and emergency nursing courses consisting of e-learning theory (online) and hospital clinical.

e-Learning Course Development
Learn more about the process for creating online courses, and view a current list of blended e-learning and fully online courses currently in development.

e-Learning Courseware Developer Series
This theme develops faculty expertise in designing and developing course content and learning strategies that are delivered in an e-learning context. Faculty completing faculty development opportunities in this theme will be able to transform one or more of their course sections into web-assisted, blended or fully on-line modalities.

e-Learning Nursing Workforce Development Partnership
This innoative project provides RNs that have been temporarily out of the workforce with a comprehensive, fully online refresher course; and provide LPNs with a fully on-line curriculum that prepares these nurses to become RNs.

Educator Preparation Institute – Alternative Certification Program
Instructional Technology is playing a key role in the development of online content to support this teacher training initiative, primarily through the use of learning objects and Blackoard/WebCT online sections.
Faculty Mentor Project
The goal of the Faculty Technology Mentoring Project is to increase the number of BC faculty using technology to enhance student learning and increase the skills of those already using technology.

Fully Online Programs and Degrees
BC students can satisfy all general education course requirements through e-learning (courses that are taught on-line).

Learning Objects
Using learning objects has become a key tool in BC's increasing call to deliver high quality, online content to a broad array of programs.
Mobile Technologies
The use of mobile computing by faculty and students impacts computers are becoming the cutting edge of mobile technology and offer a vareity of educational applications.
Multimedia
BC faculty are taking advantage of the opportunity to study and use the latest multimedia technologies for a variety of educational purposes.
Online Testing
The Instructional Technology Department is overseeing a pilot program for Questionmark Perception a secure solution that enables authoring, administration, and reporting on computerized assessments.

Podcasting
Podcasting allows for the push delivery of audio and video content via the Internet. Several initiatives are currently exploring this technology to establish models that can benefit teaching and learning.

Right Click Academy
BC’s “Right Click Academy” recognizes the efforts of faculty who are actively supporting the blending technology into teaching and learning.

Turnitin.Com
Plagiarism Detection ToolTuritin defines itself as "A proprietary system that instantly identifies papers containing unoriginal material and acts as a powerful deterrent to stop student plagiarism before it starts." Instructional Technology is providing the leadership for training BC faculty to utilize this tool.

Web Conferencing Solutions
The Instructional Technology Department is supporting the use of a Web-based conferencing solution to assist the HCA/BC Specialty Nurse Training Initiative and other initiatives.

Weston Accelerated Program
This program provides a fast track program for working professionals in west Broward to earn their degrees. The Instructional Technology Department has supported the development of quality online course content to support this accelerated program.

Broward Community College
BCC Privacy StatementEducation Master Plan BCC Legal Disclaimer