CCCApply 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.

The CCC Confer project provides free e-conferencing services for all California Community Colleges faculty and staff. CCC Confer is powered by Elluminate, 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 Confer products/services include:

• Meet & Confer: Web and phone conferencing
• Office Hours: Virtual office space
• Call Confer: Phone conferencing
• Webinar Services: Online seminars
• Online Event Services

CCC Confer can accommodate a multitude of uses, including training opportunities, grant collaboration, meetings at a distance, or anything else necessary to support the business of education outside the classroom. CCC Confer is ADA and Section 508 accessible.

Collaborate, meet, train, educate in real time…regularly scheduled or on-the-fly. For more information visit the CCC Confer Web site at www.cccconfer.org.

Whether you are searching for an interesting program or video to watch on the web or in the classroom, looking for a way to record a keynote speaker at a conference, or trying to figure out how to provide video content to your students, 3C Media Solutions can help. We are THE educational media distribution network dedicated to assisting the California Community Colleges (CCC) with the most up-to-date media solutions available.

Our team delivers media content throughout the CCC system 24/7, through television and the internet. 3C Media Solutions delivers high-quality, digital broadcasts through two channels, 3CTV and 3C Community Network. 3CTV features a number of CCC produced programs, including telecourses, series and specials and is available in classrooms throughout the CCC system, as well as on the internet. 3C Community Network is a closed-circuit satellite channel providing proprietary and specialty programming for the CCCs and affiliated entities.

Services/products include:

• TV Programming Schedules
• Satellite Uplink/Downlinks
• Interactive Live TV/Webcasts
• Video Recordings
• TV Announcements
• Affiliates/Technical Support

Visit 3C Media Solutions online at www.3cmediasolutions.org

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.

CVC services/products include:

• CVC Central Hosting Facility
• Statewide Distance Education Course Catalog
• MERLOT Project Support
• Online Teaching & Learning Resource Center
• CVC Learning Object Repository
• Online Learning Exchange (OLE)

Web site: www.cvc.edu

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.

CCC Technology Center products/services include:

• Listserv hosting
• Web site hosting
• CCC TechEDge: Technology Newsletter
• IT liaison between CCC and Gartner, Inc.
• Technology Grants Support

Free listserv and Web site hosting is available to CCC systemwide and regional organizations. Subscription to the TechEDge newsletter is free and relevant article submissions are reviewed by its editorial board.

The CCC Technology Center's Technical Director acts as a liason between CCC faculty and staff and the IT experts at Gartner, Inc. Gartner provides in-depth analysis and actionable advice on virtually all aspects of technology, including a specific focus on IT in higher education.

For more information about the products/services offered by the CCC Technology Center, visit its Web site at www.cccnext.net. For information about Technology Grants Support visit the Grant Resources section of this site.

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.

The CCC Clearinghouse was developed in 1998 with an initial focus on curriculum and instructional materials. It has been redesigned and enhanced several times to include: scanned copies of grant narratives and program reports submitted to the CCC Chancellor's Office, course outlines of record for a limited but growing number of colleges, and a Web-based survey wizard.

CCC Clearinghouse services/products include:

• Electronic Repository
• Web Survey Wizard

The project is currently searching for grant funding to further enhance the content of the repository by allowing all colleges to submit new program reports/course outlines to the CCC Chancellor's Office electronically.

Related Resources

• CCC Chancellor's Office
• The Corporation for Educational Networking in California (CENIC)
• Foundation for the California Community Colleges (FCCC)

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