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Month: November 2015

The Value Of A Weekly Wrap Up

Helping Students Navigate Your Course
Over the past few weeks, the Distance Learning Team has published multiple posts about items to include in your courses to help students navigate them successfully. In her post It’s Not Just A Reading List: Adding Context to the Resources In Your Course, Instructional Technologist Jackie Wickham discussed the importance of including information about the resources you are including in your course and why you are including them.…

Welcome to Elizabeth Lemke & Krissy Wilson, Learning Designers!

The SPS Distance Learning team is very excited to welcome two more new team members: Elizabeth Lemke and Krissy Wilson. They will both be working as Learning Designers, helping faculty outline, design, and build online courses.
Elizabeth comes to our team from Wiley Publishers, where she worked with Instructional Designers to build online course materials for a variety of clients.…

Welcome to Dr. Reba-Anna Lee, Director of Online Program Development

The SPS Distance Learning team is very excited to welcome Dr. Reba-Anna Lee to the team as our new Director of Online Program Development! In this role, Reba-Anna will oversee our team of Learning Designers, lead our faculty training program, create systems to evaluate course quality, and guide online program development.…

New Faculty Training Begins Monday, November 16

Each quarter, the School of Professional Studies hosts a four-week, asynchronous training for faculty and teaching assistants who will be facilitating SPS online courses for the first time. Run through Canvas, the training follows the basic format of an SPS online course, which allows faculty and teaching assistants to experience a course from a student perspective while learning about technology, SPS policy and procedures, and best practices for facilitating an online course.…

GoReact: November 2015 Online Learning Webinar

November’s Online Learning Webinar features GoReact, a video platform that makes instructor feedback and assessment easy. It creates a dynamic online environment for class presentations, speeches, and other class activities. A recording of the webinar can be found here, on Adobe Connect.…