How do community colleges leverage U.S. Department of Labor funds to build the workforce skills of adults? Listen to the new podcast series, Voices of TAACCCT Presidents, to hear community college leaders across the country describe the impact and influence their TAACCCT grants have had on their schools and the approaches they’ve taken to scale and sustain programs that respond to the needs of the local economy. Read full announcement.
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IE2EI invited to present at League for Innovation
IE2EI IMPACTcommunity is invited to present the newly developed “Industry Expert to Expert Instructor” (IE2EI) on-boarding course at League for Innovation in Phoenix, AZ in June. The IE2EI course was reviewed by a third party evaluation team, and full scale revisions are in the works. It will be piloted at colleges this summer and in the fall of 2017. The final version will be released spring of 2018.
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Telling TAACCCT Tales with the StoryTelling Network IMPACTcommunity
By Nicolette van der Lee, Program Coordinator, Office of Continuing Education & Training, University of Hawai’i Maui College, nhv@hawaii.edu
In February 2017, three of my fellow TAACCCT grantees and I presented in a WorkforceGPS webinar titled TAACCCT Tales: Using StoryTelling to Share Project Successes. We come from four community colleges spread across the nation, from the East Coast states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the Midwestern state of Wisconsin, and the far-flung volcanic islands of Hawai’i. During the webinar, we talked about how we found community in tackling the challenge of turning traditional project reporting into compelling stories about transformative change. Read the full announcement.
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Past Event: OLC Innovate 2018
OLC-MERLOT Conference
When: April 18-20 2018
Where: Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel
Call For Proposals: OLC Innovate 2018 CFP
Registration: ClosedTAACCCT @ INNOVATE 2018
When: April 18-20 2018
Where: Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel
Registration: ClosedPlease stop by the SkillsCommons exhibitor booth and let us show you the wide variety of support services and resources SkillsCommons has developed to enable your success!
- Get friendly individualized consultation regarding TAACCCT grant requirements for uploading grant deliverables to the SkillsCommons repository.
- Get help finding content already in SkillsCommons that you can reuse for your TAACCCT grant project.
- Get help connecting with the TAACCCT Learning Network (TLN) and technology partners who can help ensure your deliverables satisfy TAACCCT grant requirements.
- Learn about SkillsCommons IMPACTcommunities to sustain the TAACCCT investment in innovations for workforce development programs.
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Past Event: The Forum 2018 – National Association of Workforce Boards
When: March 24 – 27, 2018
Where: Washington, DC
Hotel: Washington Hilton
Registration: Register (closed)
Presentation: Expanding Your Training Inventory with OERPlease stop by the SkillsCommons exhibitor booth and let us show you the wide variety of support services and resources SkillsCommons has developed to enable your success!
- Get friendly individualized consultation regarding TAACCCT grant requirements for uploading grant deliverables to the SkillsCommons repository.
- Get help finding content already in SkillsCommons that you can reuse for your TAACCCT grant project.
- Get help connecting with the TAACCCT Learning Network (TLN) and technology partners who can help ensure your deliverables satisfy TAACCCT grant requirements.
- Learn about SkillsCommons IMPACTcommunities to sustain the TAACCCT investment in innovations for workforce development programs.
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Past Event: League For Innovation Conference
When: March 18 – 21, 2018
Where: National Harbor, MD
Hotel: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
Registration: RegisterPlease stop by the SkillsCommons exhibitor booth and let us show you the wide variety of support services and resources SkillsCommons has developed to enable your success!
- Get friendly individualized consultation regarding TAACCCT grant requirements for uploading grant deliverables to the SkillsCommons repository.
- Get help finding content already in SkillsCommons that you can reuse for your TAACCCT grant project.
- Get help connecting with the TAACCCT Learning Network (TLN) and technology partners who can help ensure your deliverables satisfy TAACCCT grant requirements.
- Learn about SkillsCommons IMPACTcommunities to sustain the TAACCCT investment in innovations for workforce development programs.
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Past Event: Workforce Development Institute (WDI) Conference
When: Jan 30 – Feb 2, 2018
Where: New Orleans, LA
Hotel: Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Registration: RegisterPlease stop by the SkillsCommons exhibitor booth and let us show you the wide variety of support services and resources SkillsCommons has developed to enable your success!
- Get friendly individualized consultation regarding TAACCCT grant requirements for uploading grant deliverables to the SkillsCommons repository.
- Get help finding content already in SkillsCommons that you can reuse for your TAACCCT grant project.
- Get help connecting with the TAACCCT Learning Network (TLN) and technology partners who can help ensure your deliverables satisfy TAACCCT grant requirements.
- Learn about SkillsCommons IMPACTcommunities to sustain the TAACCCT investment in innovations for workforce development programs.
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Past Event: National Council for Workforce Education (NCWE) Conference
When: Oct 25-26, 2017
Where: Salt Lake City, UT
Hotel: Hilton Hotel
Registration: RegisterPlease stop by the SkillsCommons exhibitor booth and let us show you the wide variety of support services and resources SkillsCommons has developed to enable your success!
- Get friendly individualized consultation regarding TAACCCT grant requirements for uploading grant deliverables to the SkillsCommons repository.
- Get help finding content already in SkillsCommons that you can reuse for your TAACCCT grant project.
- Get help connecting with the TAACCCT Learning Network (TLN) and technology partners who can help ensure your deliverables satisfy TAACCCT grant requirements.
- Learn about SkillsCommons IMPACTcommunities to sustain the TAACCCT investment in innovations for workforce development programs.
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Past Event: TAACCCT Tales: Credit for Prior Learning – From Capacity Building to Sustainability
Where: Virtual Presentation
When: Thursday, September 7, 2017
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
Registration: RegisterLearn the story of how one of the largest community colleges in the Northeast, the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), succeeded in implementing accelerated pathways, prior learning, and a prior learning assessment of portfolios. From this experience CCRI will share its best practices and next steps for creating new prior learning policies. See full event details.
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Past Event: International eLearning Conference 2017
When: July 20-21, 2017
Where: Bangkok, Thailand
Hotel: Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC)
Registration: CLOSEDPresentation: Open Learning For All (PPT) by Gerry Hanley
