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Recap: FIU OnlineCon 2024 

FIU OnlineCon is FIU Online’s annual gathering for faculty to explore the latest in instructional technology, innovative learning tools, and best practices in online course design.   This year’s theme, inspired by the Netflix prompt “Are you still watching?” took this familiar question to examine a pressing issue in online education: student engagement. Just as viewers’ […]

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FIU Online Makes an Impact at Innovation Summit

The Florida Online Innovation Summit is an annual opportunity for Florida college and university educators, instructional designers, and administrators to exchange ideas and discuss initiatives to innovate online education. At this year’s meeting in March, FIU Online instructional designers Amanda González Izquierdo, Aaron Robles, and Kieron Williams, in collaboration with our Associate Director of Learning […]

Constructing Quality Matters Courses with Brent Huffman & Eugenio Jaramillo

2 Professors Constructing Quality Courses

While preparing to present at FIU Online Con 2022, CultivatED, instructors Brent Huffman and Eugenio Jaramillo shared their experience in constructing quality courses with the Insider. Both Huffman and Jaramillo teach as adjuncts in the Moss Department of Construction Management program, part of the FIU Engineering and Computing department. The “Constructing Quality Courses” presentation‘s aim […]

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FIU Online Conference 2022 Agenda & Resources

Review session descriptions at our FIU Online Conference 2022 Agenda site. Selected FIUOLCon22 Presentation Resources [10:15 am] Constructing Quality Matters CoursesTwo QM-certified instructors demystify the Quality Matters accreditation process while sharing strategies and FIU Online resources available to get you certified. Read the article (available 4/22, 10 am). [1:30 pm] Virtual Escape RoomsLearn to curate […]

FIU Online Conference 2018 Recap

On Friday morning, November 2nd, 2018, two hundred and twenty-two people traveled to FIU’s waterfront Biscayne Bay campus to attend FIU Online’s 17th annual FIU Online Con. The conference opened with an empowering keynote from an internationally recognized and seriously creative multimedia artist, Phil Hansen. Through his innovative and jaw-dropping approach to working within his […]

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Faculty Choice Award Winners Sound Off: 2017 Top Score in Gamification

If games, like many courses, are about mastering challenging tasks at increasing levels of complexity, then gamification means exploiting that shared dynamic in our instructional design. Dr. Lukas K. Danner, our next featured Faculty Choice Award winner, won the 2017 Top Score in Gamification for his CPO3103 Politics of Western Europe. Insider caught up with Professor Danner […]

FIU Online Con 2018

Join us at the FIU Online Conference 2018

Our FIU Online Faculty are at the forefront of online learning, continually engaging in methods of improving the student experience through innovative course design and delivery. The annual FIU Online Conference provides our faculty the opportunity to discover new instructional technology and innovative learning tools, enrich courses that are engaging and high in quality, and […]

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Faculty Choice Award Winners Sound Off: 2017 Innovative Course Design

Recently, Insider has checked in with previous Faculty Choice Award winners to inspire you to nominate your own course (the deadline is October 5, 2018). Our next featured winner is Educational Psychology professor, Dr. Melody Whiddon-Willoughby. Be sure to join us at FIU Online Con 2018 when we announce the 2018 winners. Meet Dr. Melody Whiddon-Willoughby […]