There are a few new processes for the 24-25 year to support our students. VikeHub has you covered – See below and in the Resources and Documents link for instructions on the following:
Here are a couple of online professional development opportunities to get in on! These will help you get your required PD hours (4 per year for online instructors), and they’re “homegrown” – from our own OK institutions.
OKLIS (Oklahoma Learning Innovations Summit) is offering the following for January…
Virtual OKLIS Session January 26, 11am on Accessibility
This two-part session will include:
Here’s a pretty great resource for thinking about course calendars, and creating them in ways that fosters student success (hey, that phrase sounds familiar…). I’ve found that although the work is a bit front-loaded, once it’s there it really alleviates student stress…and therefore cuts down on the amount of emails and questions I have to field. 🙂 As we’re getting our courses ready, consider giving more detail to your course calendar to give your students an even better shot at success.
If you’re wanting an easy way to get in some professional development at the end of the semester, check this out!
Click here: Quality Matters Winter Series: Building Engagement with Your Online Learners
Contact Kyla Bailey at [email protected] or 918-647-1377 if you’d like to take this for FREE!
Discussion boards in online courses are probably one of the most misunderstood and potential-filled tools that exist in the online world. This misunderstanding leads to a lack-luster and obligatory use, which nobody enjoys or finds value in. The potential of discussion boards, though, lie in recognizing what they’re for.
They aren’t meant to take the place of in-class, live discussion. Nothing can replace that. But they are meant to provide a space for student-student interaction, student-instructor interaction, and discovery by all involved.
Here’s an awesome (short) video with some tips, if you’re wanting to make your discussion boards more awesome and less painful.
Interested in Open Educational Resources (OER) – what it is, how it helps students, and how to incorporate it into your teaching?
Want to develop an OER yourself…?
Need some Professional Development?
Click on the image below! (and if you want to go in person, let me know ASAP)
AI and teaching with AI is certainly near the top of our brains these days.
OKLIS (Oklahoma Learning Innovations Summit) hosted a session on teaching with AI, and recorded it for us! Watch it below, or access it on YouTube here.
Teaching with AI is fun/hard/weird/unsettling/surprising/all of the above.
ChatGPT gets all the press (plus, saying “ChatGPT” sounds techy and cool), but did you know there are waaaaay more AI Tools out there? To do more things than just generate text?
Oklahoma’s own Dr. Buck Dodd has made an AI Toolkit available through his company ClearKinetic. Check it out below to explore more of what AI can do!
Leave a comment below if you’ve used some in the online or F2F (face-to-face for all you cool kids) classroom.
Slack is a community workspace website, desktop app and phone app where we can talk to each other, exchange ideas, work on projects, clarify dates, etc. instantly. Things can be shared in themed groups called channels, or in private messages between users (like a text), or to the group in general.
You know, like what people who actually like each other and work together do. 😉
It’s pretty great.
Join us. 🙂
Hello CASC Online,
As faculty members deeply committed to student success in online education, we are delving into a crucial topic today and exploring strategies to make interactions more meaningful. You can access the article here: Link to the article. Here are some highlights of strategies you can implement to ensure regular and substantive interaction without overwhelming yourself
Our collective goal is to enhance student success in online education. By implementing these strategies, we can keep creating engaging online learning environments that empower our students to thrive.
I encourage you to read the article! Together, we can strengthen the quality of online learning and set our students on a path to success.
Happy teaching, and here’s to fostering a more interactive and effective online education environment!
