You can learn more about the conference and the COD Awards on their website. Martin and Schade were recognized at the MCO Annual Conference on June 2. NECC currently offers 304 courses that are either entirely online or provided in a hybrid format and registration is open now for fall 2022. Since the spring of 2020, the college’s Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) has helped faculty transition 300 courses to online delivery. The pandemic accelerated what was already an innovative model for online learning at Northern Essex. “In addition, students have the capability to slow down or speed up the video – something that they wouldn’t be able to do in class.” “It’s as if they are looking over his shoulder,” Burns wrote in her nomination. When classes moved online due to the pandemic, Martin creatively produced a series of videos that allowed students to feel as if they were still in the same studio. Christina Gardner Burns, an instructional technologist in the Center for Instructional Technology, nominated Brian Martin’s Drawing II course. COD offers more than 580 different courses in an online format (though availability varies by term), covering more than 80 different disciplines.

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