About ITC Leadership Academy
Planning for the future and motivating a team to join you along the way are the hallmarks of a successful leader. Incorporating scenario-based experiences under the guidance of nationally-recognized eLearning champions, the ITC 2024 Distance Education Leadership Academy will build on the American Association of Community College's six designated leadership competencies to expand your leadership skills. Participants will return to their schools with an individual learning and leadership plan!
Who Should Attend
- Distance education directors and program managers
- Faculty and professors with a new distance education leadership role
- Academic leaders responsible for distance education
- Instructional designers and technologists with leadership ambitions
Focus Areas
- Change Management
- Leadership Styles and Strengths—How Do My Strengths Influence My Role as Leadership?
- Emotional Intelligence
- Futurology of Distance Education
- Data-Informed Decision Making - Moving the Institution Forward
- Relationship Building Across Campus
- Strategic Visioning
- Planning for Change at Your Institution
Competencies Acquired
- Identify your personal leadership strengths and recognize effective practices when working with others.
- Align your efforts to analyze an institutional culture and to overcome roadblocks.
- Identify effective advocacy models for your institution.
- Articulate effectively with your program stakeholders
- Develop a personal leadership plan for moving yourself and your institution forward in the changing environment of higher education.
- Analyze data through case studies to formulate correct assumptions.
- Construct effective strategies to inform and evaluate your local decisions.
- Explore options for keeping abreast of innovation.
- Discover options for leading others through discovery, adoption and change.
- Conceptualize success strategies and construct college eLearning models
- Analyze a college eLearning program and construct a strategic planning framework to support student preparation, success and completion.
Final Deliverable
Capstone project - An Individualized Leadership Plan
When & Where
TBD
Hotel & Travel
Hotel
TBD
Travel
TBD
To Apply
The ITC will select a group of up to 20 distance learning leaders to participate in its 2024 Distance Education Leadership Academy. Please check back this fall for the application.
Letter of Nomination & Explanation Required
Applicants must include a letter of nomination from his or her institution and a one-page explanation what he or she would like to gain through participation with their fellow academicians. At the end of the online application, you will be given directions regarding where to send both the nomination and explanation.
Registration Prices and Process
- ITC Members: $950
- Non-Members: $1,075 (Includes individual membership for 1-year)
- Non-Members: $1,345 (includes membership for your institution for 1-year)
ITC will send an invoice to each participant chosen to participate in the 2024 Distance Education Leadership Academy.
Many of our members have used Higher Education Emergency Relief Funding (HEERF) and other federal and state grant funding to support participation in ITC's professional development opportunities. Check with your institution to see what grant funding is available to you!
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