California Education Technology Collaboration (CETC)

The Collaborative or CETC is composed of a variety of cutting-edge systemwide technology projects, services and resources. Available to ANYONE at all of our 109 CCC Campuses! Formed in December 2003 as a response to tight fiscal times. Sponsored by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. Brought together all of the CCC systemwide technology projects into a single group. Allows individual projects to remain autonomous while giving the new group a single-project focus.

Members and Partners
Chancellor’s Office (Systems Office)
@ONE: Faculty/Staff Technology Training
CCC Apply: Online College Application
CCC Confer: e-conferencing
CCCSAT: Satellite Broadcasting
CCC Technology Center: Tech support and grants assistance
CVC: California Virtual Campus
CCC Clearinghouse or C4: Repository

CETC Partners:
FCCC: (Foundation for California Community Colleges) Fiscal Services
CENIC: (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) Systemwide internet and video access

CETC Amabassadors
“Our CETC Ambassador will be the influential and knowledgeable advocate and primary on-campus resource who will consistently promote systemwide CETC services at our California Community College campuses.”

Goals
“Implement a systemwide grassroots outreach program that: Promotes and ultimately increases use of CETC Services among administrators, faculty and staff. Saves each campus money, time and resources Provides an effective two-way communications mechanism between the campuses and the Collaborative…” So the CETC can continually improve their services.

CETC Ambassador Responsibilities
Act as the on-campus primary point of contact for faculty and staff. Disseminate information. Schedule/Conduct presentations and demonstrations.
Facilitate training referrals. Refer end-users to support services. Be a two-way communications conduit between the campus and the CETC.

Meet the Collaborative (click here for more information)

The Chancellor’s Office, now known as the Systems Office, is the administrative branch of the California Community College system.
Located in Sacramento, this state agency provides leadership and technical assistance to all 109 community colleges from 72 community college districts. http://www.cccco.edu Phone: (916) 445-8752

@One -: Provides free or low-cost technology training, support and online resources to enhance student learning and success.

Offers several opportunities to boost technology skills including: Hands-On Institutes Distance Education Workshops @One Knowledge Center
@One Carnegie Scholars Facilitated Online Trainings Desktop Seminars Video Broadcasts -http://one.evc.edu Phone: (408) 223-6788

CCC Confer - The CCC Confer project provides free e-conferencing services for all California Community Colleges faculty and staff. CCC Confer is powered by HorizonWimba, a leader in educational e-conferencing.

Designed to allow communication and collaboration using the latest e-conferencing technology, CCC Confer can connect you to one colleague or many, one student or a group of students, anytime, anywhere. Whether you need to meet across the campus or across the state, all you need is your computer and a phone.

CCC Apply - allows access to each college in the California Community College system; provides information about each college, including location, programs, student services, and enrollment criteria; and allows potential students to complete an applications for admission which can be submitted online and sent directly to the college(s) in one easy step.

CCCSAT - The California Community Colleges Satellite Network, or CCCSAT, provides a gateway to a world of free satellite and Internet programming for CCC faculty, staff, and students. CCCSAT operates two broadcast television channels, which distribute more than 500 hours of programming per month to campuses direct via satellite or to desktops via Internet Web cast. CCCSAT provides diverse television programming resources for instruction, staff training, and professional development, including original student-produced programs and news from the CCC campuses.

CVC - The California Virtual Campus (CVC) supports the development and delivery of online learning in community colleges throughout the state of California, and in one respect, other accredited higher education institutions in the state, as well. The CVC Professional Development Center cooperates in assisting faculty and staff, and hosts and maintains an online catalog of California distance learning. The CVC online catalog is the most comprehensive online listing of distributive education offered by regionally-accredited California colleges and universities.

CCC Technology Center - The California Community Colleges Technology Center helps to support the Telecommunications and Technology Unit of the CCC Chancellor's Office and the digital infrastructure that serves all 109 CCC campuses. * Listserv hosting * Web site hosting * CCC TechEDge: Technology Newsletter * IT liason between CCC and Gartner, Inc. * Technology Grants Support


CCC TechEDge is published quarterly with two additional, special issues per year. It is distributed to distance educators, information systems officers, business leaders, the California legislature, and other interested parties. Funded by a grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and published by the California Community Colleges Technology Center, its purpose is to provide timely and relevant news about telecommunications and technology in California’s 109 community colleges.

The CCC Clearinghouse is a statewide, Web-based repository that allows authorized users at both the local college and state level to electronically deposit, self-index, search, and retrieve documents, files, and certain databases that are of interest to any or all of the 109 colleges and the CCC Chancellor's Office.

Related sources:
CENIC -The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California. CENIC is charged with designing, provisioning and operating robust, high capacity, next generation Internet communications services through a cohesive infrastructure for its associates and affiliates. CENIC represents the common interests of its associates, who are drawn from California's higher education academic and research communities, and is highly accountable to the institutions it serves in order to fulfill the trust that has been placed with it. CENIC also provides services to California K-12 schools and, in order to facilitate the education and research mission of its associates, to non-California higher education institutions and to industry research organizations with which CENIC Associate researchers and educators are engaged.

The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) serves and assists community colleges and our K-12 partner schools to build, create and operate more effectively through philanthropy, grants, programs and services that drive excellence while saving millions of dollars annually.