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.
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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
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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
Winter 2020
Instructional Technology and Design is pleased to announce our Winter 2020 Teaching and Technology Academy event. The focus for this half-day seminar is student engagement and will feature topics, such as moving beyond the textbook, the innovative use of pedagogy and technology as well as using video to facilitate student engagement.
We’ve allowed time for hands-on work and individual consultations, so bring your questions and plan accordingly. There may be laptops available onsite; however, we recommend that you bring your own device, if possible.
This event is being offered at the Cheney campus and at the Spokane campus:
(Please note: The content is the same for both sessions)
Spokane Campus – SEWC 209
02/28/20
10:00 – 2:00 pm
To enroll in the Spokane session, click here.
Cheney Campus – HUS 207
02/27/20
10:00 – 2:00 pm
To enroll in the Cheney session, click here.
Light refreshments will be provided. If you have dietary restrictions, please email instructionaltech@ewu.edu.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Fall 2019
Instructional Technology and Design is pleased to announce our Fall 2019 Teaching and Technology Academy event. The focus for this half-day seminar is accessibility and will feature topics, such as the use of Ally (the new accessibility checker in Canvas), captioning videos, as well as document remediation.
We’ve allowed time for hands-on work and individual consultations, so bring your questions and plan accordingly. While there are some laptops available, we recommend that you bring your own device, if possible.
This event is being offered at the Cheney campus and at the Spokane campus:
Spokane Campus - SEWC 209
11/20/19
10:00 - 2:00 pm
To enroll in the Spokane session, click here.
Cheney Campus - HUS 207
11/21/19
10:00 - 2:00 pm
To enroll, in the Cheney session, click here.
Light refreshments will be provided.
We hope to see you there!

2019 marked the thirteenth-annual Teaching & Technology Boot Camp. This year's Boot Camp was the kickoff event for the Teaching and Technology Academy, with more events coming throughout 2019-2020. Boot Camp offered a mixture of presentations, workshops, and discussions covering effective practices and innovative approaches in the use of teaching and instructional technology in course design and development. Session recordings will be posted in the Teaching and Technology Academy Canvas course after they've been edited. Stay tuned for announcements about upcoming academy learning opportunities.
Questions? Please contact Instructional Technology
509.359.6656 • instructionaltech@ewu.edu