NC3DLA November 2010 Joanne Grason, Annenberg Media Karen Lynden, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

1. NC3DLA November 2010 Joanne Grason, Annenberg Media Karen Lynden, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

2. Agenda and Goals • Annenberg Media: a brief look over time • Why Telecourses ? • Preview: Physics for the 21st Century • Preview: Invitation to World Literature • Tools: online tools to enhance learning (Learner.org) • Media: new ways of using Annenberg Media in your course (CollegeAnywhere)

3. 1981: Annenberg Foundation established by Walter Annenberg • 1982: Our first distance learning course: New Literacy: An Introduction to Computers(incidentally, produced by the Southern CA Consortium aka Intelecom) • 1992: Launched our award winning Web site: learner.org • 1993: The Annenberg Channel allows schools to access our collection through a 24/7 satellite feed

4. 2001: We are the first educational video producer to stream our content online through learner.org • 2003: Developed coordinated Web sites to enhance learning by adding online textbooks, guides, interactives, timelines, and glossaries to our video content • 2010: Collaborate with College Anywhere of Camden County College, NJ to create a fully customizable streaming option

6. Why Telecourses?! • Provides course content to students through video, print, and faculty/student interactions • Viable for f2f, hybrid, and online instruction • VOD • Saturday Telecourse, best practice for students: • F2f time but not 100% online • Are in our Nursing Program! • Working Parents • Typical age range: 25-45

7. Why Annenberg Media? • Professional quality • ADA Compliance • Link to Website: green and efficient • No additional costs to students or the college • Over 800 enrollments each academic year

8. Student Testimonial In January of 2006 I started here at RCCC. I was first introduced to Telecourse classes at this time. I found the whole Telecourse experience convenient, challenging, and wonderful… I am very proud to say I graduated from RCCC in May of 2010 with High Honors… and that the only way this was possible for me was through the DE program. R. Price

9. Our award winning Web site receives over 10 million hits monthly • VOD: Video on demand 24/7 • Coordinated Web sites for many series may include: textbook, guide, glossaries, timelines, interactives Diane von Furstenberg: (Portraits: Andy Warhol)

10. Physics for the 21st Century • A multimedia course focusing on the frontiers of physics, grouped into three broad areas: • The Universe at it’s smallest (sub-atomic particle physics) • The universe at an everyday scale (atomic and molecular physics) • The universe at it’s grandest (cosmology) • http://www.learner.org/resources/series213.html Black Holes: String Theory(Program 4)

11. Invitation to World Literature • A multimedia course for teaching, appreciating, and reading works from many times and culture • All the components bring together a mix of text, authors, scholars, writers, artists, and performers to entice students, and all readers into timeless tales. • http://www.learner.org/resources/series212.html Illustration of Mercundo location of 100 Years of Solitude

12. A • A fully customizable streaming content option • Current Feature: • Multiple series bookmarking capability for use in online, hybrid, and f2f classroom environments • Ability to incorporate programs from any series into any LMS • Closed captioned • Concurrent transcripts • Adaptable to any environment: PC or MAC • 24/7 help option for students and faculty • Learning Module creation tool • http://www.collegeanywhere.org

13. New & Coming • New: Coordinated Web Site for Destinos • Coming: Digital Downloads ( Dec, 2010) • Updated Economics U$A (Fall, 2010) • New Power of the Brain Series( Fall, 2010) Raquel from Destinos Booms & Busts: Economics U$A

14. Joanne Grason 240.631.9546 jgrason@comcast.net Karen Lynden Rowan-Cabarrus Community College 704.216.3642 karen.lynden@rccc.edu Photo from THE HABITABLE PLANET Soberania Rain Forest, Panama

15. Thank You