{"id":285949,"date":"2018-10-04T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=285949"},"modified":"2018-10-04T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:00:34","slug":"e-learning-made-available-to-pss-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/e-learning-made-available-to-pss-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"E-learning made available to PSS personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_285950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285950\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/E-Learning-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-instructors from CNMI Public School System participated in professional development in preparation for the opening of the online Fall 2018 semester of the Professional e-Learning Portal. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>E-instructors from CNMI Public School System participated in professional development in preparation for the opening of the online fall 2018 semester of the Professional e-Learning Portal\u2014a branch of the Instructional Technology Program that offers professional development and certification online coursework to support PSS personnel. <\/p>\n<p>The workshop, which was held last Saturday, Sept. 29, at Kanoa Resort, focused on strategies to support adult learning, increasing online engagement and promoting more content relevance. <\/p>\n<p>The workshop was led by Instructional Technology Program leaders Dr. Bobby Cruz, director of Instructional Technology, and Lorraine Catienza, Distance Education Program manager. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s another busy Saturday of learning and improving for our e-instructors who facilitate coursework for the portal. The focus today is on andragogy, adult learning theory,\u201d said Catienza. \u201cThe way we work with adults, especially professionals, is very different from the way we facilitate learning for students. The goal is to help our e-instructors add more rigor, relevance and participant voice in the courses we offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, e-instructors were provided best practices for improving course objectives, refining performance tasks to promote relevance and increasing collaboration and engagement among participants. Participants in the workshop included interim education commissioner Glenn Mu\u00f1a, and associate commissioner Dr. Yvonne Pangelinan. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program is committed to helping PSS personnel sharpen their skills as educational practitioners to advance teaching and learning in the online learning environment,\u201d said Cruz. \u201cBy leveraging technology, we have created a sustainable platform through our learning management system to help personnel gain their certification.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The CNMI Public School System Professional e-Learning Portal has developed 36 online courses that align with the BOE certification and licensure requirements. The program is still in its piloting phase, with the goal of solidifying by next school year. At that point, the program should have a full range of online certification and professional development courses to support all educators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstructional technology is committed to continuous improvement,\u201d Catienza said. \u201cEach year we work with our e-instructors to assess a range of data that includes course evaluation. We use the input of the participants we serve to refine and improve our offerings to ensure quality teaching and learning.\u201d (PR) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-instructors from CNMI Public School System participated in professional development in preparation for the opening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":285950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5084,22623,448,40],"class_list":["post-285949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-distance-education-program","tag-instructional-technology-program","tag-kanoa-resort","tag-pss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}