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Accessibility: Designing for All Students

January 22, 2020

What Is Accessibility? Most likely you’ve heard about web accessibility. You may be aware of the Disability Resource Center (DRC) at FIU. You probably have received a notification about a student in your course who needs accommodations. However, accessibility encompasses more than extending deadlines or allowing extra time for exams – the most common accommodations […]

Adobe Connect Transition to Zoom – The End.

December 9, 2019

Adobe Connect Transition to… As announced by email in mid-November, as part of FIU’s transition from Adobe Connect to Zoom the Canvas Adobe Connect integration will no longer be available starting on Dec. 20, 2019. The transition to Zoom started in Spring 2019 and will be completed by the end of Fall 2019. Zoom Conferencing […]

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innovedCon 2019: Ultimate Higher Ed Learning Design Conference

October 29, 2019

innovedCon 2019, an FIU Online powered Learning Design Conference, was held on October 2nd & 3rd at the InterContinental Doral in Miami Florida. Lead. Design. Create. FIU Online’s second innovedCon event invited online higher education professionals from around the country to participate in immersive sessions showcasing the latest in emerging online curricular design practices. The conference […]

Accessibility: Designing for All Students

EdTech Tools to Increase Student Engagement

PlayPosit: Increase Engagement with Videos Using videos in online learning may not sound ground-breaking or innovative, but that’s because you’re not using PlayPosit yet. PlayPosit is a tool that provides an intuitive, easy-to-use editing platform for creating interactive videos, also known as “bulbs.” You can use videos you create or content you have curated from […]