Instructional Resources & Technology

• Computing Resources
• Instructional Design and Development
• Instructional Support and Incentives
• Instructional Technology Services

Computing Resources

Computer Centers provide open access computing facilities for ACC students to complete classroom assignments, write papers, work on specialized course software, search the internet and communicate with their professors and classmates via e-mail.

Computer Classrooms are available for faculty to teach courses or segments of courses that require student access to computers during the class.

Faculty Resource Centers (FRCs) are computing facilities for faculty located on all ACC campuses. The IDCs are designed to support the development of course materials, online courses, and electronic communication by faculty.

Library Reference Stations are located in the libraries on each of ACC's six campuses and are made available to the public for researching information and locating sources.

Instructional Design and Development

Instructional Design assistance is provided to develop course objectives, teaching strategies, instructional techniques, learning outcomes, and assessment methods that support best practices for teaching and learning.

Online course development is offered for online delivery by using ACC's Online Course Management System called "Blackboard®" or by developing Web sites and pages to host course materials and information.

Adapting a Course for Distance Learning from traditional on-campus delivery to alternate formats that support the needs of distance learning students through flexible offerings with time and place-independent components is supported by instructional design staff.

Instructional Support and Incentives

Innovation Grants provide ACC funding to groups of faculty, individual faculty or professional-technical staff for projects that focus on enhancing the quality of instruction. Proposal categories include: Instructional Development, Instructional Technology and Unique Project Awards.

Summer Institute is an intensive training session, held during July of the academic year, focusing on the development and application of specialized instructional methods designed to help faculty become more effective teachers.

Instructional Technology Services

Classroom support is offered by campus Media Center staff who maintain a wide variety of classroom technology equipment as well as educational media. Center staff can take faculty equipment and media requests at the campus Media Center, on the phone, via an online request form, or by mailing a request form through inter-campus mail. Faculty can also request to purchase or preview educational media (including instructional computer software applications and CD-ROM's) to be added to the collection.

Media production services and support is available through each campus Media Center and includes assistance with basic audio and video production, web and digital imaging production in the IDC, and traditional graphics and photography.

Instructional technology support for students includes the media viewing areas in the libraries, the duplication equipment for foreign language audio tapes, ITV-Instructional TV tapes and equipment for classroom presentations. Other areas of support include providing information on the use of media technology in the classroom, media equipment and vendor information, and support of technology classroom design & development.

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