Professional & Organizational Development

Links to Online Resources

There are numerous online resources for information about professional and organizational development. These sites are a good place to start for supplemental and primary information

Internal Online Resources

Online Learning Support Center — The OLSC is an online resource for faculty who want or need assistance developing online material for classroom use. If your class is fully online or a hybrid (both online and classroom instruction) or if you just need help with a class web page, the OLSC staff will assist you.
Student Learning Outcomes & Administrative Unit Objectives — The SLOs/AUOs Implementation Team provides training and resources for faculty, staff and managers while documenting and ensuring the quality of the SLOs/AUOs process.
Skills & Pedagogy for Online Teaching — The SPOT web site provides assistance for faculty attempting to earn their Certification for Online Teaching. The certification process provides the baseline of skills and pedagogy needed for effective online teaching, and the SPOT will be demonstrated by each faculty member through the completion of several tasks in this certification process.

External Online Resources

4Faculty.org — 4faculty.org is an online professional development network of resources and learning modules designed specifically for the needs of community college faculty. The site allows you to share ideas and acquire new tools for teaching to help you reach your students more effectively and enhance their learning experience.
@ONE: Improving Education through Technology — @ONE provides educational technology resources to California Community College faculty and staff. @ONE has several opportunities for you to enhance your technology skills.
California Community College Council for Staff & Organizational Development — 4C/SD is an organization that provides training resources and networking opportunites for staff development professionals of the California community colleges.
California Virtual Campus — Professional Development Center This Website is maintained by the California Virtual Campus Professional Development Center. The site is a joint project of El Camino and Santa Monica Colleges and was created under the auspices of the Chancellor's Office for the California Community Colleges.
Community College League of California (CCLC) — The Community College League of California is a nonprofit public benefit corporation whose voluntary membership consists of the 72 local community college districts in California.
Company of Experts — Company of Experts.net is an international network of people with outstanding expertise in Consulting, organization development, Facilitating, Keynoting, and Training and Development of colleges, community colleges, schools and universities.
Connect to Your Community — The CCC Confer project is located at Palomar College in San Marcos, California and offers web conferencing tools to allow communication and collaboration for all faculty, staff, and administrators in the California community college system. CCC Confer is ADA and Section 508 accessible.
National Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development — An affiliate council of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) NCSPOD's mission is to increase institutional vitality by providing professional growth opportunities for members, enabling them to establish, enhance, and/or revitalize staff, program, and organizational development in their organizations.
National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development — The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) is a non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of colleges and universities who share a philosophical commitment to support excellence in teaching, learning, and leadership.