FIU Online’s monthly Instructor Webinar series explores relevant instructional strategies and effective ways to use technology in an online classroom. The “Cozy up Your Course” webinar provided instructors with best practices and common pitfalls of boosting the visual elements of the Canvas classroom. You can catch the full recording here. Instant Replay: Non-Designer’s Guide to Visual […]
You are happy about teaching this upcoming semester! You have your course content and feel good about the curriculum delivery. However, there is still something missing. Visually, the course could be more appealing, intriguing, and inviting for students but, how? You can work with an instructional designer to achieve the ideal visual enhancements for your […]
The FIU Online monthly Instructor Webinar series explores online instructional strategies and effective uses of technology for the online environment. From Scratch Course Design webinar outlined a five-step recipe for effective online course design in Canvas. Instant Replay: From-Scratch Course Design Cooking Up a Fresh Online Course with Best Practice Ingredients Designing a new-to-online course […]
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 […]
In a recent article for Inside Higher Ed, writer Mark Lieberman reports on common objections to predesigned online courses. Unreported is how many institutions have found ways to reap the rewards of predesigned online courses while reducing disadvantages. FIU Online boasts an effective process for developing predesigned online courses. Our process is proven to maximize both […]
Teaching a course online for the first time involves thinking about goals for the course, course design, and use of technology. Adapting a course from a traditional face-to-face offering or creating a brand new course online can be intimidating or challenging at first. Fortunately, instructors teaching hybrid and fully online courses at FIU have a […]
FIU Online was invited to present a concurrent session at the 2016 Quality Matters conference. The theme for the conference was “Blazing New Trails” and was held in Portland, Oregon from October 31 through November 2, 2016. Karina Gomes and Maikel Alendy, both Lead Instructional Designers at FIU Online, facilitated the session titled “Feedback: We’re […]
Quality Matters. Well, yes it does, but how does it apply to courses—namely yours? If you are not familiar with it, the Quality Matters program is a faculty-driven, collaborative, peer review process designed to improve online and blended courses. Courses are measured against a set of eight standards (a.k.a. The QM Rubric) which focus heavily […]
