Actualizing the Online Community College
What might be the building blocks of fully online community colleges, and what can a traditional brick-and-mortar community college learn from them to enhance its online learning initiatives?
Kelvin has over 25 years of experience serving in various roles as a faculty member, administrator, and consultant within the field of higher education, supporting online learning and other types of academic innovation initiatives. These initiatives have included leading online learning offices and teams and piloting and scaling online tutoring and proctoring in support of online learning programs at 2- and 4-year colleges and universities.
Kelvin currently serves as the University of Texas System's first project manager for Texas Credentials for the Future, a new initiative designed to grow and scale access to technical skills for students and alumni across 14 universities and health research institutions. He engages in strategic planning and collaboration with project leads across the UT System to further their microcredentialing efforts. In addition, Kelvin manages several vendor partnerships with companies that include Google and Coursera, gathers and summarizes project-related data, and manages a $1.5 million Beyond Completion Challenge grant from the Strada Education Foundation that supports the UT System's microcredentialing efforts
What might be the building blocks of fully online community colleges, and what can a traditional brick-and-mortar community college learn from them to enhance its online learning initiatives?
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