"BizWiz Learning Community"

Category: Technology Training

Sinclair Community College

Goals:
The major goal is to produce a minimum of five online, interactive, portable activities that align with specific live courses in marketing, accounting, finance, customer service, and management. To reach this goal, faculty members will
* Develop tutorials, interactive role-play models, videos, discussion blogs, and business overview video assignments
* Will enlist others within our college to explore resources and share experiences to develop online business-oriented activities that will supplement live or online courses

Goals for individual members are to
* Explore existing resources of educational technologies.
* Share knowledge of the recent educational technologies with each other.
* Discuss how some of the resources are and/or can be used to enhance teaching and learning in their disciplines.
* Use the developed interactive activities in their courses and assess their effectiveness.
* Compile the project results into resources available for other faculty members and professionals in the College.
* Involve Business Division students in an interactive on-line learning community where they learn new material while assessing current skills and developing new ones.
* Introduce students to communication methods, such as web blogs and discussion boards, where students can learn to analyze sources of information and support a chosen position.
* Prepare students for possible job opportunities within Ohio.