Salem State College maintains memberships with all of the following organizations and resources.
Teaching
POD
The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education. POD is THE organization to belong to if you have a penchant for the scholarship of teaching and learning. POD has over 1,800 members- all faculty members or administrators directly involved in faculty development at centers for teaching and learning. They host listserves where you can get answers to all your questions, institutes, online programs and a great annual conference.
NEFDC
The New England Faculty Development Consortium is like a local branch of POD and is great for networking with local faculty and faculty developers. They hold a conference each semester and occasional special events.
Teaching with Technology
Educause
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Educause organizes conferences, online webinars, white papers, case studies and briefs about technology use in Higher Education. It includes administrative and academic systems. The branch of Educause related specifically to teaching is ELI (below).
ELI
The Educause Learning Initiative is a cornucopia of online resources and national events related to the integration of teaching and technology. ELI organizes conferences, online webinars, white papers, case studies and briefs about emerging technologies and new ways of using them in higher education.
E-Academy
E-academy allows faculty to receive software that the IT Department supports at drastically reduced prices. A full version of Microsoft Office costs only $25.00!
Blackboard
Blackboard is the course management system required for hybrid and online courses at Salem State College.
Ask Dr. C (http://www.blackboard.com/communities/ask_drc)
is a question-and-answer service moderated by an expert group of trainers, instructional designers, administrators, project managers, support specialists and developersGreenhouse Program
Recognizes excellence in web-enhanced, hybrid and fully online courses that use Blackboard to deliver high quality learning. Examples of winning exemplary courses can be reviewed at the Greenhouse website.
Sloan-C
Salem State College is an institutional member of the Sloan Consortium, an international organization formed to help learning institutions improve quality, scale and breadth of the online offerings. Every member of the SSC community can create their own Sloan-C login and password and take advantage of our institutional membership. Just go to http://www.sloan-c.org/aboutus/help.asp. Scroll down the page and choose the option that says "Activate My Own Membership Under My Institution/Organization."
Membership benefits include:
1. The ePremium Member Central website, http://epremium.sloan-c.org/, is our institution's portal to the Premium Membership benefits. Pdf versions of Sloan-C publications, including the excellent Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN), are available as well as archived workshops from past Sloan-C workshop series.
2. SSC now has 20 coupons for $150 off any of Sloan-C's popular online workshop series. These coupons give our institution more than half off of the normal registration fees.
3. SSC has 10 coupons for $50 off of the registration fee for the annual conference on asynchronous learning.
Quality Matters
The QM project was initially designed to assure institutions teaching within the Maryland Online system of the quality of each other’s courses. QM now constitutes a consortium of over 100 institutions, 500 trained course reviewers and a list of almost 100 courses certified as quality online courses. By participating in QM we gain access to the tools and processes to certify our own courses with the QM seal of approval.