Faculty: Course Design Workshop Improving Face-to-Face Instruction
The Summer 2018 Course Design Practicum closed July 25 not only with 14 new Certified Course Designers, but also new faculty partnerships.
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Tips to Make the Most of Your First Web Conference
Web conferencing offers a host of opportunities for users in online learning, from virtual office hours or virtual tours, to including expert guest speakers in lectures. Best of all, getting started isn’t all that complex.
But it does take some preparation.
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Planning, Teamwork Yields Successful Online Marketing Course
Dr. Anne Gottfried says the success of her online marketing course was a team effort with UL Lafayette's Distance Learning Instructional Support Team.
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First Faculty Fellowship Yields Adaptive Learning Course
Andrea Leonard, a Master Instructor in the Department of Chemistry, has been teaching online courses every semester for the past six years and felt her delivery methods were stagnant. She’d long wanted to explore new options, but couldn’t take the time or the risk to student success until the ULearn Faculty Fellowship offered her that opportunity.
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Can't Find the Right OER? Make Your Own
Dr. Jonathan Kulp, director of the School of Music and Performing Arts at UL Lafayette, couldn’t find a suitable online textbook so he made his own, giving it to students for free in support of the Open Educational Resources initiative.
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Online Learning: Where Nursing Education is Today
Dr. Lisa Broussard's faculty members in the Department of Nursing proudly lead the way in online education for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, bringing advanced education for nurses in Louisiana and across the nation.
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VoiceThread meets podcasting to optimize student engagement
When Dr. McKinzie Hall started teaching online courses in 2016 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, she wanted to find a way to draw students into her new political science class, Crime and Popular Culture. The answer came from her favorite media: podcasts.
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Spring MUG session highlights VoiceThread, Moodle Groups
As part of its ongoing effort to explore and share new instructional tools, the Department of Distance Learning presented information on Moodle Groups and VoiceThread March 26.
About 30 instructors and staff members took advantage of the information session, which afforded the opportunity to hear not only from support experts within the department, but also from other instructors across disciplines.
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Learner Support Block
Improvements have been made to the Learner Support block, which appears in all Moodle courses. These enhancements are user-focused, providing more information in a targeted layout for students. For faculty teaching hybrid and online course sections, these improvements help those instructors to better align with the Quality Matters (QM) standards for Learner Support. Finally, the enhancements enable better alignment with information on new UL Lafayette supported websites.
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Faculty Perspective: My Course Design Practicum Experience
Dr. James Kimball is a Senior Instructor and the Director of Freshman Mathematics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. During the summer 2014, he participated in the Office of Distance Learning’s Course Design Practicum (CDP) online experience in preparation for designing and teaching Elementary Statistics online. A year removed from the experience and having taught online, Dr. Kimball shares his experiences as a Guest Blogger and includes a video about his course design.
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