Conferences are a great opportunity to network, hone your skills, and stay abreast of the latest tools and techniques in the world of online learning.
Both Quality Matters Connect and Online Learning Consortium Accelerate are right around the corner.
Incorporating video into your course is an excellent way to increase engagement and accommodate different learning styles. Here are five types of video you can begin using in your online courses.
Moodle Workshop is allowing Dr. Mark DeWitt to facilitate meaningful engagement within his online Cajun and zydeco music history course.
When Charles Landry was tasked with expanding his duties to include online courses, he says he was in unfamiliar territory. But he's now hoping to create new online courses.
In ProctorU Live+, students still connect with a live proctor while the artificial intelligence program watches for eye movements, looking off screen, changes in lighting, or changes in audio, for instance, noting those events in real time.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Office of Distance Learning team has been traveling across the country to bring back best practices from across the online learning community.
Continuing an ongoing theme around accessibility, the Office of Distance Learning outlined several tools and topics during the Moodle User Group (MUG) meeting this October.
By using the Moodle Suggested Layout designed by the Instructional Support Team at the Office of Distance Learning, instructors not only meet some standards but are also free to focus on their course material instead of building a course from the ground up.
Key features of the course included a free, integrated textbook; text, audio, and note card options for learning; and added freedom for students to pursue elements of the course as they saw fit instead of following a strict, linear plan.
The four members that comprise Instructional Support bring decades of teaching, course design and instructional technology experience to our shared goal: creating engaging and interactive online course delivery alongside faculty, the subject matter experts.
