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Five years ago, Red Lake Nation College invested heavily in its cyberinfrastructure and distance education technology—foresight that helped ease the transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Engagement and Delivery: Best Practices for Teaching Online at Tribal Colleges
This web-exclusive guide from a TCU faculty member offers advice, insight, and experience for improving your online classroom.
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Connections and Corrections in the Digital Age: Criminal Justice Student Success at Tribal Colleges and Universities
The criminal justice programs at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College and Sitting Bull College took steps to develop their baseline remoting skills and adapt to students’ needs and learning styles, enabling them to adjust successfully in changing times.
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Lessons from the Trenches on Hybrid Instruction
A tribal college alumnus turned educator shares his lifelong experiences with distance learning.
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Born of Necessity: Native Arts Learning Through Distance Education
The pandemic forced TCUs to re-envision their arts and culture programs. But through a distance learning grant, the American Indian College Fund helped them weather the storm and make new inroads to preserving Native knowledge.
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Leech Lake Tribal College Hosts Virtual Conference on Distance Learning
Panelists will discuss the future of online education and how it fits into nation-building and tribal colleges’ service to their communities.
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SKC Marks 10th Year Of Offering Online Classes
In 1997, Salish Kootenai College (SKC, Pablo, MT) began offering its first online courses to a handful of students who lived off campus.
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Blackfeet Students Can Take Online Classes
Blackfeet Community College (BCC, Browning, MT) is in its third semester of offering online courses and will offer new classes this fall. The tribal college offers core classes by distance learning in college success skills,
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NCA Accredits 3 More UTTC Online Degrees
United Tribes Technical College (UTTC, Bismarck, ND) has received accreditation to offer three additional associate degree programs online, expanding the college’s online degrees to five.
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15-4 “Ancient Cultures Modern Technology” Resource Guide
This resource guide has two purposes: to showcase sources relevant to effective online content development and to provide links to potential partners who can help enhance STEM (science,
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SIPI Provides Distance Ed Classes In 4 States
Child care providers from several different tribal nations are earning their Early Childhood Education Associate of Arts degrees without leaving their homes and jobs, thanks to distance education classes offered by Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque,
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Reaching Out
Northwest Indian College Academic Vice President Rissa Wabaunsee steps into classrooms in four tribal communities simultaneously each week to teach “History of Indian Education” via Washington State University‘s K-20 Educational Telecommunications Network.
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NCA Accredits UTTC Online Associate Degrees
United Tribes Technical College (UTTC in Bismarck, ND) has achieved a milestone in higher education: accreditation to grant degrees to students who take all their classes online.
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Haskell Joins Students Across Kansas Prairie
Haskell Indian Nations University has launched a distance education program. Using modern technology, about 60 students on the Haskell campus in Lawrence, KS,
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Distance Education Comes Home
Not that long ago, “distance education” for American Indian people meant boarding schools. Federal agents and missionaries ripped children from their parents’ arms and transported them to far away boarding schools where they were detained,
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HINU Teams with Tribe to Offer Distance Ed
Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS, hopes to beef up enrollment with a new program that provides students on reservations and in cities with training and equipment to take classes at home and on-line instead of on campus.
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Lambert Earns National Distance Ed Award
The Sloan-Consortium has selected Dr. Lori Lambert (formerly known as Colomeda) as the recipient of the 2001 Sloan-C Excellence in Teaching Award. Competition for the award is rigid with over 71 colleges and universities submitting candidates.
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SKC Hosts International Distance Ed Meeting
Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana hosted the first International Indigenous Peoples Distance Education Conference last November. Indigenous People came from as far away as Australia and Canada to participate.
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Keweena Bay Begins Distance Education
Keweena Bay Ojibwa Community College (KBOCC) recently received a technology gift from neighboring Suomi College. The gift includes distance learning classroom equipment that enables interaction between two or more sites linked by fiber optic cable.
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Interactive Special Ed Classes Offered at DKMC
Dull Knife Memorial College (DKMC) in Lame Deer, Mont., is working with Montana State University (MSU) in Billings to provide special education teacher training. A grant from the U.S.
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CIT Telecommunications Grant to Link Navajos
Early on September 30, U.S. Rep. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) telephoned Crownpoint Institute of Technology (CIT) President James Tutt with news of a $600,000 telecommunications grant to the school.
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North Dakota Colleges Expanding Distance Ed
BISMARCK, ND – The North Dakota Association of Tribal Colleges received a grant from the U. S. Department of Education to expand distance education programs in the state.
