Chadron State College maintains many campus memberships related to teaching and learning. If you are interested in finding out more about any of these memberships, please contact Mary Jo Carnot
"Quality Matters is a faculty-centered, peer review process that is designed to certify the quality of online and blended courses." For information about how to sign up for a Quality Matters class, please contact Dr. Jo Forstrom jforstrom@csc.edu or Dr. Mary Jo Carnot mcarnot@csc.edu
The Quality Matters course review process is based on the Quality Matters rubric, a set of standards for design of online courses. For more information, you can access the Quality Matters rubric overview . As a member of the Chadron State College community (based on our subscription to Quality Matters), you can get a copy of the full rubric and annotations from Mary Jo Carnot at mcarnot@csc.edu
WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) http://wcet.wiche.edu/
"WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies accelerates the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education."
"Founded in 1979, the Association for Integrative Studies is the professional association devoted to interdisciplinarity. Interdisciplinarity combines the insights of knowledge domains to produce a more comprehensive understanding of complex problems, issues, or questions ranging from comparison to fully realized integration." The organization will change its name to the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, effective January 1, 2013.
"AGLS serves colleges and universities by fostering strong General Education programs. General Education is that part of the curriculum required of all students and dedicated specifically to liberal learning - the development of knowledge, skills, values, and habits of mind characteristic of an educated person. The members of AGLS comprise a community intent upon improving liberal learning by advocating the centrality of general education and supporting its continuous improvement."
"POD Network - developing and supporting practitioners and leaders in higher education dedicated to enhancing learning and teaching.”"
http://www.podnetwork.org/
"The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL) serves faculty members, staff, and students who care about teaching and learning as serious intellectual work. The goal of the Society is to foster inquiry and disseminate findings about what improves and articulates post-secondary learning and teaching.”"http://www.issotl.org/