Welcome to the OTC Employee Development calendar where current employees can browse and register for available training opportunities. Events are added throughout the semester so please check back often.

Free Half-Day Webinar: Navigating Blended Learning Challenges

Virtual Only

Presented by Fierce Education About Higher Education: Helping Faculty Navigate Top Challenges In This New Blending Learning Environment Over the past two years, higher education institutions have evolved their strategies to incorporate hybrid teaching and learning to accommodate the major issues highlighted from students who experienced a learning gap due to COVID. While everything is being…

Event Series Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Virtual Only

Most Fridays, 12pm - 1pm: Grab your lunch (or favorite beverage) and connect with your peers in an informal space to share how your semester is going, tales from the classroom, and all things teaching and learning. Open to adjuncts, full-time faculty, staff, and guests. Bring your own topics, or join the conversation for different topics…

Free Webinar: Using the CliftonStrengths Assessment to Enhance Engagement and Retention at Community Colleges

Virtual Only

Hosted by NISOD Helping Students Become Extraordinary: Using the CliftonStrengths Assessment to Enhance Engagement and Retention at Community Colleges In this webinar, which is geared toward all community college professionals who work in instruction, advising, admissions, and student affairs, participants learn how to use the CliftonStrengths Assessment to increase student engagement and retention. This assessment…

Event Series Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Virtual Only

Most Fridays, 12pm - 1pm: Grab your lunch (or favorite beverage) and connect with your peers in an informal space to share how your semester is going, tales from the classroom, and all things teaching and learning. Open to adjuncts, full-time faculty, staff, and guests. Bring your own topics, or join the conversation for different topics…

Free Webinar: Using Restorative Practices to Interrupt and Address Microaggressions in the Classroom

Hosted by NISOD Using Restorative Practices to Interrupt and Address Microaggressions in the Classroom Those of us engaged in the work of addressing identity in the classroom by discussing issues related to race, gender, age, ability, religion, class, sexual identity, and culture have, at some point, encountered unconscious bias in the form of microaggressions. Even…

Free Webinar – Autism and Higher Education: Breaking Down Barriers

Virtual Only

Hosted by the Missouri Community College Association (MCCA). Join us Tuesday, March 8 at 2 p.m. for the second webinar of MCCA’s new series, My Favorite Lecture, delivered by Dr. Susan Inman of Ozarks Technical Community College!  In this lecture, Dr. Inman will share valuable insight into autism and higher education. The challenges today’s students with autism…

TechUP Training: MS Teams and Canvas New Quizzes

Virtual Only

Are you interested in learning to use the Canvas MS Teams integration, or start using Canvas New Quizzes? This training will get you started and introduce you to the main features! Register below! This event will be fully virtual at: https://otc.zoom.us/my/otccai

Free
Event Series Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Virtual Only

Most Fridays, 12pm - 1pm: Grab your lunch (or favorite beverage) and connect with your peers in an informal space to share how your semester is going, tales from the classroom, and all things teaching and learning. Open to adjuncts, full-time faculty, staff, and guests. Bring your own topics, or join the conversation for different topics…

Event Series Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Virtual Only

Most Fridays, 12pm - 1pm: Grab your lunch (or favorite beverage) and connect with your peers in an informal space to share how your semester is going, tales from the classroom, and all things teaching and learning. Open to adjuncts, full-time faculty, staff, and guests. Bring your own topics, or join the conversation for different topics…

Learn to Build Community and Spark Engagement for Community College Students

Virtual Only

Hosted by NISOD Monday, March 28, 2022 - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Effective teaching in community colleges is harder now than ever before. This webinar sheds light on how two Aims Community College faculty members found ways to effectively drive active learning in today's classroom. They are joined by a former community and state…