Crowdsourced Resources for the 2020-2021 Academic Year

Supporting Faculty and Staff in the Development of High Quality Online Experiences

Earlier this summer, at the suggestion of Aaron Brower and Ryan Anderson of the University of Wisconsin Extended Campus, UPCEA led the crowdsourcing of resources to support higher quality remote teaching for the 2020-2021 academic year. The project was bold, audacious, and one that proved to be challenging for a host of reasons, mainly due to the limited time everyone had this summer to think about anything other than fall preparations and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As always, UPCEA members pitched in, shared resources, and gave us a great opportunity to highlight some of the resources they rely on in the design and delivery of online instruction. Our goal was to create a pool of web-based resources that instructional design teams and online leaders could leverage as they work with instructors (faculty, adjunct instructors, grad students, etc.)and/or instructors can use when working independently. We hoped these resources would encourage:

  • The review of previous online materials/experiences (faculty reflection work)
  • The planning of online instruction (course mapping/blueprints, course alignment, etc.)
  • The design of online/remote instruction (lecturing, engagement, accessibility, etc.)

We received resources that addressed specific faculty-focused topics:

Cognitive Psychology and Pedagogy

Planning for Online Teaching

Lecturing/Teaching/Learner Strategies

Accessibility

Engagement/Interactions/Evaluation

Assessment/Assignments

Video/Content Production

We also received resources that were designed as comprehensive resources addressing all aspects of online teaching:

A few institutions provided their faculty development programs for online teaching. These sites take faculty through the entire process of developing an online course and feature great resources!

 

We hope you find these resources useful and shareable with your faculty. In closing, we would like to thank the following organizations and individuals that made this work possible:

Thank you to the organizations that submitted resources:

Auburn University
The Citadel
Great Plains IDEA
Manchester Community College
Mississippi State University
Northwestern School of Professional Studies
O'Donnell Learn
Oregon State University
Pennsylvania State University
University of Alaska Fairbanks
University of Michigan
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of North Carolina Greensboro
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
University of Washington
University of Waterloo
University of Wisconsin Extended Campus
University of Wisconsin-Stout

And thank you to the UPCEA members that participated in the project:

Ryan Anderson, University of Wisconsin Extended Campus
Dan Arnold, Oakland University
Camille Funk, University of California Irvine
John Hollenbeck, University of Wisconsin Extended Campus
Linda Kingston, Lake Superior College
Christie Kittle, Washington State University
Reba-Anna Lee, Northwestern University
Justin Louder, Texas Tech University
Olysha Magruder, Johns Hopkins University
Matt McKenzie, Southern Utah University
Nancy Salzman, Brandman University
Jennifer J Schwedler, University of California Davis
Ann Hamilton Taylor, Pennsylvania State University
Patrick Wirth, University of Wisconsin Extended Campus

 

 

Updated September 16, 2020