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MCC Daily Tribune

TCC: Volunteer to Open Your Remote or Online Class for Virtual Open Classrooms Week!

Faculty are doing fantastic and impactful things in their classrooms—engaged collaborative learning, dynamic lectures, getting to know students well. Our students are involved in public speaking, service learning, role playing, hands-on training and much more. MCC offers unique learning experiences from discussions, performances, and artistic creations in the liberal arts to technical preparation in auto mechanics, hospitality, nursing, and more.

None of that has stopped during COVID. Neither, then, should the chance to see excellent teaching and active learning across the disciplines.

So the TCC is pleased to announce Virtual Open Classrooms Week—a modified version of what we’ve done the past couple years—which will take place March 22-26. 

For obvious reasons, only Remote and Online courses are eligible this semester.

Want to participate as the one opening a class, the one visiting someone else's, or both? The signup process is simple, and consists of two distinct stages:

  1. Now through March 1: Registration period for those willing and eager to open their classes to colleagues
    • To volunteer your class (or more than one) for Virtual Open Classrooms Week, please complete this form.
  2. March 1-March 19:  Registration period for faculty and staff to visit a class from among those on the list
    • There will be a separate announcement for this beginning March 1

Let’s make our remote existence a little more visible, and show each other what we might sometimes forget, especially when we are isolated and can’t hear each other through thin classroom walls or catch glimpses of each other as we walk down the halls: We’re a fabulously interesting bunch. Our classes, our subjects, our passions are wonderful things. Opening (virtual) doors and sharing our work with each other are part of what we do.  

**Sign up before March 1 to have your class be on the list for people to visit.** And stay tuned for the next steps.

 

In addition: This year the TCC and Global Education & International Services are partnering to offer Professors with Passports, a virtual exchange program to visit the classroom of an international colleague (or two), and have them also visit your class. More details about this will be provided in subsequent announcements, and the signup process will be separate from Open Classrooms since it involves institutions beyond MCC. If you are interested in this virtual exchange opportunity, please email Christina Lee (GEIS).

 

Questions about Virtual Open Classrooms Week? Please email Amy Burtner.

Amy Burtner
Teaching and Creativity Center
02/08/2021