Supporting Faculty and Staff in the Development of High Quality Online Experiences: Crowdsourced Resources for the 2020-2021 Academic Year
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:
- Academic Integrity / Compliance
- Accessibility
- Assessment / Assignments
- Cognitive Psychology and Pedagogy
- Engagement / Interactions / Evaluation
- Lecturing / Teaching / Learner Strategies
- Planning for Online Teaching
- Video / Content Production
- Comprehensive Resources Addressing All Aspects of Online Teaching
- Faculty Development Programs for Online Teaching
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