The CHEO project is funded through a $14,171,229 U.S. Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) four-year grant (2012-2016.) Eight institutions are participating in this project and will develop or transition identified courses in allied health programs into hybrid and/or online formats. The CHEO project is headed by Pueblo Community College (CO).
These courses - some which will be new and others currently provided in face-to-face format only - will offer students the opportunity to acquire stackable certificates. In their more accessible formats, these courses will allow working adults to make continuous progress in their profession while pursuing their academic credentials. Allied Health certificate programs will be offered in these areas: emergency medical services, polysomnography, health information technology, medical lab technology, nurse aid (with special certificates for home health care, hospice care, and medication aide), pre-nursing, paramedicine, radiation technology, health information technology, and medical lab technician.
The CHEO project outcomes include supporting allied health faculty members who are learning to make use of online environments for course delivery, while also assuring that the expanded number of certificate programs meet the needs of a diverse student body. In addition, CHEO career coaches will support students from enrollment through employment, drawing upon a robust set of tools from the web-based career hub developed in the project.
This workspace will be used by faculty who are developing new science experiments or using modified versions of existing experiments delivered through the North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) nodes. See www.wiche.edu/nanslo for more information on NANSLO.
It will also be used by career coaches working together to develop tools for use in the web-based career hub developed in the CHEO project.
Faculty and career coaches from the following institutions will actively use this site for project management and document posting and sharing:
- Flathead Valley Community College – MT
- Great Falls College Montana State University – MT
- Kodiak College/University of Alaska – AK
- Lake Area Technical Institute – SD
- Laramie County Community College – WY
- Otero Junior College – CO
- Pueblo Community College – CO
- Red Rocks Community College – CO
One of the roles of NANSLO in the CHEO project is to develop 12 new experiments for use in specified allied health courses. To accomplish this, NANSLO will:
- Form Discipline Panels with faculty representatives from the new online courses with lab components.
- Provide a faculty expert for each Discipline Panel to assist it identifying potential experiments for development in the NANSLO environment, prioritizing them, and creating the curriculum and technical specifications for programming the software to allow the new experiments to be robotically operated over the Internet.
The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), the coordinating partner and fiscal agent for NANSLO, as part of the CHEO project will provide professional development opportunities for the faculty and career coaches involved in the project, providing a communications infrastructure and coordinating the activities of the discipline panels, and developing the scheduling software to allow multi-campus use of the production labs located on the network’s nodes.
WICHE will post information in this workspace on workshops, webinars and listservs and material delivered as part of those professional development opportunities.
See NANSLO's Role in the CHEO Project for more information.
For more information, contact:
Sue Schmidt, NANSLO/CHEO Project Coordinator, WICHE
3035 Center Green Drive, Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80301
sschmidt@wiche.edu • 303.541.0220
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