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Wednesday, July 12, 2006: 11:15 AM-12:00 PM
Colorado Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
B-2: A Systems Approach: Training on a Large Scale
Detailed Description:The Connecticut Community College system is made up of twelve colleges statewide. With the decision to upgrade to WebCT Vista from WebCT Campus Edition 3.8, System Office personnel were tasked with training almost 700 current WebCT users between March 1, 2005 and Vista's go-live in the Fall '05 term. This session will address the various strategies and components of their successful system-wide training plan for a large-scale, short-term implementation.
Presentation Format:Showcase
Topic:Empowering educators: Professional development models and methods
Target Audience:Faculty and Other Instructors, System Administrators, E-learning Managers
Appropriate Audience Level:Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users
Abstract Text:
  • A multi-team approach to a 12-college system-wide Vista Implementation
    • The Vista team organization in the CT Community Colleges
    • Strategies and stumbling blocks: 
      • Soliciting involvement from, and communicating with, stakeholder groups about the "4Ps" of implementation (Planning, Progress, and new Processes and Procedures)
      • Communication strategies employed for various stakeholder groups
      • What we wish we'd known (a.k.a. Hindsight is 20:20)  
  • Overview of our system-wide training goals and strategies and logistics of delivering on-ground and online training
    • Training planning and rollout schedule
    • Online resources for faculty and students
    • Materials licensed from WebCT courses and how we deployed them
    • Formal training classes and bootcamps
    • Training and attendance stats, and Vista usage stats for our go-live term
    • Training incentives and local support resources
    • Pedagogical initiatives


Session Leader:Tobi Krutt
Connecticut Community Colleges, System Office
Co-Presenter:Francine Skalicky
Connecticut Community Colleges, System Office

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