Center for Instructional Technology and Outreach (CITO)

The role of community outreach is to encourage lifelong learning by providing educational opportunities for the individual and the community. Non-credit classes, workshops, and presentations are available to campus and community members of all ages who desire to explore their abilities, expand their skills, discover their talents, and improve their quality of life. From cooking and cultural dance to fitness and creative art, Outreach provides a chance to do what you know and love or to learn something new.

Community outreach functions as the vehicle responsible to originate, facilitate, support, and nurture the learning process.

Outreach and Distance Learning are responsible for nontraditional courses and for the coordination of distance education programs.

These programs provide academic courses and University services and support for those individuals who qualify as students but who are unable to attend regularly scheduled classes due to time, geographical, and other limitations.

The academic divisions retain the responsibility of assuring the academic credibility of all credit courses which are sponsored by them. CITO provides the administrative services necessary to offer these courses to an extended audience.

The charge of the Outreach and Distance Learning team is to work conjointly with the other academic divisions to extend the strengths of the University to all qualified students.

• Credit/no-Credit non-degree programs
• Bachelor in General Studies (BGS)
• Professional Development
• Independent Study

Executive and Professional Outreach offers programs, conferences and workshops to help professionals keep current in their field of expertise while refreshing or acquiring new skills to achieve success. Classes are held on the BYU-Hawaii campus and can even be taught at your workplace. Class sizes vary from 10-30 students and programs can be customized to meet specific needs.

• Executive & Professional Programs
• Business Training
• Hotel & Tourism Training
• Team Building Workshops
• Teaching Professional English to Legal, Business and
• Medical professionals
• Customized Training

» Learn more at http://cito.byuh.edu/professional/

English as a Second Language (ESL) Outreach is responsible for the development, coordination, and administration of short term, and eventually longer term intensive English language programs.

The ESL Program is a selection of short term intensive ESL programs.

The role of ESL Outreach is to provide foreign high school students and graduates with a short-term English language experience in a multicultural setting. Further functions include development of longer ESL programs for specific purposes.

The role of the instructional development group is to work with faculty to identify, adopt and develop technology enhanced courses to be delivered at a distance to students throughout the Asia Pacific region. These courses include: (1) English language and high school subjects for potential BYU-Hawaii students who are deficient in these prerequisite skills. (2) BYU-Hawaii courses that will allow students to complete part of their academic program prior to coming or after leaving campus. (3) Lifelong learning and leadership courses.

The instructional development group at CITO is a unique community of learners. Graduate students, who are pursuing advanced degrees in technology-based distance learning, pursue their academic course work from a sponsoring university at a distance while they work with their colleagues to develop instructional products for diverse cultures in one of the most rapidly developing areas of the world.

The faculty support group is responsible to assist faculty in technology use in the classroom, on-line, and distance education classes; and train faculty in instructional methods and theories as well as hardware and software programs.

The role of Faculty Support is to enhance the learning experience for BYUH students by assisting faculty and staff with instructional design concepts and technological assistance.

Our division provides technological assistance, training, and instructional support to faculty for classroom instruction, on-line courses, and distance education while providing opportunities for student employees to gain valuable work experience and accomplish their academic goals.

The Faculty Support division has been commissioned to provide affordable services to faculty and staff. The services are provided by professionals in the field of instructional technology and multimedia development. These professionals teach workshops in a variety of disciplines including but not limited to teaching strategies, multimedia software applications, digital cameras and imaging, etc. One-on-one consultations and walk-in services are available to faculty and staff as well.

Other staff members include top notch BYU-Hawaii students studying in many disciplines including information systems, art, instructional design and development, and computer science. Graduate student interns also assist in training in their areas of study and expertise.