The California Community Colleges (CCC) Common Assessment Initiative (CAI) has created new resources to help colleges implement CCCAssess, the new assessment tool that was custom designed for the CCC.

Though the school year is ending, the California Community Colleges (CCC) Education Planning Initiative (EPI) is not slowing down. With many projects moving into new development phases, communication with stakeholders remains a priority.

A group of higher education organizations has begun piloting EdExchange, an open standards-based way to securely exchange real-time data—such as electronic transcripts—between academic institutions and their service providers.

With nearly 45 colleges scheduled to activate CCCAssess during the Fall 2016 term for Spring 2017 placement, college Information Technology (IT) departments are eager to understand what will be involved in converting to the new system.

The California Community Colleges (CCC) Information Security Center and Accessibility Center are joining together to present a two-day workshop event for CCC IT professionals, July 25-26, 2016, at Mt. San Antonio College.

The California Community Colleges (CCC) Education Planning Initiative (EPI) is ready to provide the education planning toolset—aka Hobsons Starfish Enterprise Success Platform—to colleges beginning in July 2016.

Come to the Online Teaching Conference 2016 and find out what all the buzz is about the California Community Colleges’ newly launched Professional Learning Network, your one-stop site for effective practices, trainings and other resources.

OLC Collaborate is coming to Las Vegas in June to meet with online learning professionals, educators and administrators to address the opportunities and challenges we all face in online higher education.

How do national consortia use common course management systems (CCMS)? The California Community Colleges (CCC) Online Education Initiative (OEI) worked with a leading higher education consulting firm to find out.

At Bakersfield College, 1,600 students were placed in classes this year based on their high school transcript information rather than a single placement test. The approach is already showing promise for future student placements.

As graduation season approaches, California Community Colleges (CCC) students are increasingly focused on their next steps. Determining how they will use the skills they have learned during their academic careers becomes a priority.

Among financial aid offerings for community college students around the country, the California Community Colleges (CCC) fee waiver program does the most to provide access to students who need help with college costs, a new report shows.

An official schedule for colleges to implement CCCAssess, the statewide assessment designed for the California Community Colleges (CCC), was announced by the CCC Chancellor’s Office on behalf of the Common Assessment Initiative (CAI).

Dr. Barbara Illowsky of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Online Education Initiative (OEI) was elected to the board of directors of the Open Education Consortium, a global organization promoting free access to educational resources.

Addressing a projected shortage of 1.1 million educated workers by 2030, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) launched a center to identify higher education policies that improve student success and institutional effectiveness.

The @ONE Project has announced a slate of summer courses designed to keep California Community Colleges (CCC) faculty and staff up to date on technology to enhance student learning.

Courses are already filling, so don’t wait to register.

The CCC Confer website and MyConfer portal recently underwent a redesign to make it easier for California Community Colleges staff, faculty and students to use its online collaboration and web-conferencing services.

Nominations are being sought for the 2016 WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award, which recognizes outstanding efforts in applying an innovative, technology-based solution to a challenging educational need.

CCCAssess, the common assessment tool developed for the California Community Colleges (CCC), was put into the field in March as the 12 CCC Common Assessment Initiative (CAI) pilot colleges started using it with students.

The California Community Colleges (CCC) Online Education Initiative (OEI) has been working with 24 pilot colleges for well over a year to implement the variety of Distance Education (DE) resources that the initiative has produced.

As spring finally arrives in the Golden State, the California Community Colleges (CCC) Education Planning Initiative (EPI) will be participating in several conferences in order to promote its products and services to key audiences.

The California Community Colleges (CCC) Technology Center will announce the launch of an education-centric electronic data exchange during the upcoming PESC Spring Data Summit in Washington, D.C., April 13-15.

Riverside Community College District (RCCD) will take part in the TechHire initiative, a national effort to train and hire workers for high-demand technology jobs through regional alliances of education, government and businesses.

The Online Teaching Conference 2016 is proud to announce that three statewide technology initiatives of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor’s Office will have representatives attending as well as offering sessions this year.

The California Community Colleges (CCC) Education Planning Initiative (EPI) presented an overview and product demonstrations to a large statewide audience attending a recent student success event hosted by the CCC Chancellor’s Office.

The California Community Colleges (CCC) Common Assessment Initiative (CAI) began field-testing the initial version of CCCAssess with students in mid-March at pilot colleges to collect data and validate the instrument, in preparation for releasing the platform to the larger field in Fall 2016.

To facilitate systemwide implementation of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Common Assessment Initiative (CAI), grants will soon be available to all 113 colleges, announced Jennifer Coleman, Statewide Director of the CAI.

The idea of balancing of enrollments through seamless registration across the California Community Colleges (CCC) was born of an economic recession that saw colleges having to severely limit course offerings and turn away over 400,000 students.

The California Community Colleges (CCC) Education Planning Initiative (EPI) hosted a webinar on Feb. 23 that provided an overview of the Online Orientation content which will be offered across the community college system.

Security is a top priority for the CCCAssess platform that is being developed by the California Community Colleges (CCC) Common Assessment Initiative (CAI) and will be used as an assessment tool throughout the system.