SDCCD's Online Learning Pathways provides an array of instructional services to the faculty, staff and students of San Diego City College, Mesa College, Miramar Colege and Continuing Education. Staff model innovative approaches to teaching and learning that "...make lifelong learning a reality for educationally underserved populations."

This internship is particularly well-suited to the student eager to explore the higher education setting. You'll develop resources for faculty who teach online, orient faculty to WebCT Vista 4 (no small undertaking), assist in the design/development of new courses (web-enhanced, hybrid, fully online), and create online learning objects using Flash, Camtasia and other new/emerging tools.

For more information on this dynamic opportunity, download the handout. Your contact for this opportunity is Andrea Henne (Dean, Online & Distributed Learning), whom you can contact by phone (619.388.6750) or email (ahenne@sdccd.edu).

ITS at SDSU has a longstanding, highly positive relationship with SDSU’s EDTEC department. It routinely sponsors EDTEC interns (and student designers, developers, and evaluators) and more than 25% of its own employees have earned master’s and/or doctoral degrees from the department. The ITS vision statement is clear: by 2010, it will be an internationally recognized leader in the design and development of learning environments, experiences and resources that enable student success.

ITS strives for excellence and distinction through:

• Learning environments, experiences and resources that are dynamic, engaging, and accessible to diverse learners
• Design, development and evaluation processes that consider the needs and requirements of multiple stakeholder groups
• Data as a foundation for continuous improvement
• Innovative uses of technology, and
• Collaboration and knowledge sharing with strategic internal and external partners.

In Summer 08, ITS is offering two internship opportunities. The first focuses on clickers—specifically, analysis of data that students have provided over several semesters; redesign of the “clicker” website; and development of resources to which faculty can turn relative to clicker use in the classroom.

There has been tremendous uptake on the use of clickers, primarily by instructors looking to enhance learning through increased engagement with students in large lecture courses. Course enrollment in clicker courses has grown thus: ~3000 in fall 2006, ~4700 in spring 2007, ~9000 in fall 2007, ~10500 in spring 2008. See http://clicker.sdsu.edu for more on how clickers are being used and supported at SDSU.

The second project calls for a student to develop resources that help faculty to more effectively utilize the 2-way videoconferencing instructional environment. (Example "materials" include job aids, online tutorials, in-person workshops, lit review of effective practices, checklists and rubrics.) SDSU currently supports 2-way videoconferencing facilities accommodating group sizes of 10, 20, 44, and 150. Most videoconferencing classes taught at SDSU involve the Imperial Valley Campus as the distance site. The greatest demand for classes in this format is from the School of Nursing, which has received a large grant to develop more nurses for the Imperial Valley region. Helping faculty meet the pedagogical and technical challenges of teaching in this modality will be vital in helping the nursing program to succeed, and will prove beneficial given the increasing interest from other programs and departments in taking advantage of these facilities to meet the needs of campus-based and distant learners.

Either project is a good choice for someone interested in higher education and the ways in which key campus-wide technology decisions are made.

Your contact for these positions is Jim Julius (ITS Associate Director), whom you can contact by phone (619.594.5852 or email (jjulius@mail.sdsu.edu)

With 47 years of experience, Project Concern International is a leading international health organization--headquartered in San Diego and with operations in 14 countries around the world. PCI saves the lives of children and families by preventing disease and providing access to clean water and nutritious food. PCI helps people to help themselves by focusing on four main intervention areas: disease prevention, maternal and child health, food security, and water/sanitation.

This internship (although unpaid) will allow you to be part of a cross-disciplinary team of staff charged with implementing a high-visibility strategic objective for the current fiscal year. This project will explore and test the use of web-based and long-distance training methodology to roll out financial best practices to PCI’s geographically dispersed and multicultural staff base.

To learn more about this opportnity, download the handout. Your contact for this opportunity is Susan Steele Berson (Director/Organization Development Initiatives), whom you can contact by phone (858.279.9690, x303) or email (sberson@projectconcern.org).

This internship lets you apply what you've learned in the master's program as you assist faculty and staff at one of the top 10 community colleges in the area. The Professional Development Center (PDC) is a lab of 10 PCs, 2 Macs, scanners, printers, classroom management software, and an array of applications that both faculty and staff use for instructional planning, delivery, assesment, and oversight. Your task will be to develop job-aids and other interactive resources, design and facilitate dynamic workshops, and engage in one-on-one coaching. The project extends a long-standing relatonship between EDTEC and the PDC, which means you'll have legacy projects to tap into, and existing products on which to build.

To learn more about this opportnity, download the handout. Your contact for this opportunity is Susan Schwarz (Dean, Library and Technology), whom you can contact by phone (619.388.7333) or email (sschwarz@sdccd.edu).

Mission Federal seeks a creative, pioneering intern for assistance with developing blended learning curricula. With the recent rollout of a Learning Management System, we're looking to redesign existing operational courses that take full advantage of online content delivery to supplement classroom training.

You'll be helping with such tasks as front-end analysis, SME interviews, e-learning design and prototyping, and LMS page/content design. You'll work under the mentorship of an EDTEC alum and with a dynamic, fun team of trainers with many years of classroom training experience. The ideal candidate has completed EDTEC 561, 640 and/or 670---and is conversant with multimedia tools (Photoshop, Dreamweater, Captivate, Articulate, and Flash. Fresh ideas welcome!

Your contact for this position is Robin Martin (Supervisor/The Learning Center), whom you can contact by phone (858.546.2017) or email (RobinM@missionfcu.org)

The Learning & Development Division of NBC Universal focuses on leadership/professional development. Two very different but exciting opportunities are available for Summer 2008.

The first calls for developing a leadership toolkit---to be fully integrated into the company's internal knowledge management system. This is the right opportunity for the student interested in performance support (tools, courses, and resources) and able to collect robust needs assessment data to ensure staff make sound decisions about what options to provide and in what formats.

The second attends to web redesign. The goal is to update the current site---to boost its aesthetic qualities, interactivity, and sets of features/functions. This is the right opportunity for the student well-versed in Web 2.0---with a solid understanding of style sheets, accessibility issues, and design heuristics.

Some travel (to Los Angeles) is required, but much of the effort can be conducted remotely. Selected students must be able to collaborate at a distance--which means strong verbal, writing, and listening skills.

Your contact for these dynamic opportunities is Chris Corwin (Vice President/Learning and Development), whom you can contact by phone (201.735.2356) or email (Chris.Corwin@nbcuni.com).

The San Diego Unified School District is the largest district in San Diego County, providing educational services to about 117,000 K-12 students. There are 200+ schools in the District—employing over 21,000 teachers, administrators and office staff who use a suite of software applications to plan and deliver instruction, assess student progress, and track everything from student attendance to employee paychecks.

For the most part, district employees receive software training via classes that are instructor-led.  But they also have access to online training materials—mostly handbooks and job-aids in pdf format, and a keyword-discriminated knowledge-base of articles about specific software products. 

The IT Training Group is beginning to augment existing training materials with online tutorials -- animated, web-based job-aids that step through how to perform specific tasks. A handful of these newly-developed online tutorials is already available, and more are in the pipeline for district-wide dissemination.

The internship is about helping the District’s IT Training Group develop new online content--e-learning material that addresses the requirements of all key stakeholders, includes clear objectives, incorporates effective learning methodologies, and delivers a concise tutorial that district personnel can easily understand and use immediately to perform their jobs. Think about the technologies that such a system would feature!

To learn more about this opportunity, download the handout. Your contact for this position is Joshua Bleier whom you can contact by phone (619.209.4572) or email (jbleier@sandi.net).