Online Courses - How to Take Them to the Next Level

In partnership with the Faculty Commons, Instructional Technology and Design, a division of Outreach and Engagement, is offering a series of development opportunities designed to assist faculty in advancing remote teaching courses into quality online courses.

NOTE – Please make certain you have logged into your EWU Zoom account through https://ewu.zoom.us at least once prior to registration.

• Session 1: Designing Your Online Course - Thursday, May 7, 2-3 p.m.
   Learn about designing an online course using the Backwards Design Model. From your course introduction and overview to objectives, assessments, instructional materials, and learning activities, investigate best practices in designing your online course.
  Registration Link: https://ewu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_71O5y3-DSBufdv04UrnRRA

• Session 2: Developing Your Online Course Using Canvas—Thursday, May 14, 2-3 p.m.
  Building from Session 1, Designing Your Online Course, start to use the Canvas Learning Management System to implement your course design in a manner that invites student engagement, interaction and participation.
  Registration Link: https://ewu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aJwPpFqySm28bOPAgvyyUg

   

• Session 3: Improving Accessibility—Thursday, May 21, 2-3 p.m.
  Improving access to your course is important for all students. This session focuses on creating and improving accessible course materials and using technology available in Canvas to verify accessibility.
  Registration Link: https://ewu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H9AIbgfwSyWSpjibtYqXmA

• Session 4: Assessments—Thursday, May 28, 2-3 p.m.
  Creating assessments that are challenging, pedagogically sound and maintain academic integrity takes effort. Join us for a dive into designing and creating assessments that can verify learning has taken place. Also, learn about using rubrics and applying them to student work in Canvas.
  Registration Link: https://ewu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A4ah8tu1Tc-HfTwLxFvEGg

• Session 5: Increasing Student Engagement—Thursday, June 4, 2-3 p.m.
  Engagement and interaction with and between students are important aspects of online learning. This session looks at designing and developing engaging assignments and using the discussion board to encourage student-student, student-material and student-instructor engagement, as well as some of the technologies you can employ to achieve these interactions.
  Registration Link: https://ewu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d4-fS6LmSbmglRq2t4QxNg