Winter is coming! The Fall 2022 course resources adoption season is coming to a close. Slide in before that July 8th, 2022 deadline by entering your required course materials and textbook(s) into the FIU Adoption & Insights Portal (AIP). Fall 2022 Textbook & Course Resources Adoption Even if you do not require the purchase of […]
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After a two-year hiatus, FIU Online CON is back!
Roots FIU Online hosted their FIU Online CON 2022 conference in April 2022 at the Miami Marriott Dadeland. The annual faculty conference was first held in 2002. The event aimed to provide FIU instructors with the opportunity to discover new instructional technology and innovative learning tools. Also, it showcased best practices for developing engaging and […]
Prep for Summer A 2022 Final Grades & Crosslisting Requests
As instructors, consider the following settings with your Canvas Gradebook before Summer A 2022 final grades are finalized and submitted. Canvas Settings for Summer A 2022 Final Grades Grading SchemeIt is essential that an instructor sets a course Grading Scheme that properly reflects the grading policy on the syllabus. Please verify your Grading Scheme is […]
FIU Online Earns Top Rankings by Intelligent.com
The Intelligent.com higher education resource guide released its best institution programs in the U.S. for 2022. It lists the largest number of online learning programs for the university. FIU continues to add to its list of top rankings among national universities for online learning for 2022 by Intelligent.com. The organization recognized the largest number of […]
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 […]
FIU Online Conference is back in 2022!
FIU Online Con provides the opportunity to dig into new instructional technology, innovative learning tools, and learn about quality online course design. The conference is open to all FIU teaching professionals, who are interested in or currently teaching fully online courses. After a two-year hiatus, FIU Online Con is back, live and in-person. Register for the […]
FIU Online Hosts First Academic Leadership Summit
FIU Online’s inaugural Academic Leadership Summit was held in late February in the Graham Center Ballrooms. The event was designed specifically for administrators involved in the management, planning, and evaluation of FIU’s online programs. This summit aimed to demystify the orchestration of online learning at FIU and orient administrators around the State University System quality […]
GOAL! Raise the Bar for Winning Writing Assignments
As your favorite soccer team kicks in a winning goal during the last minute of the game, you might jump up from the couch with your fists triumphantly raised. Reading an excellently crafted writing assignment from one of your students, may elicit the same celebratory response. To obtain better, award-winning results sports coaches occasionally change […]
Great Expectations: Raise the Bar for Better Writing
Stuck in the doldrums of grading your student’s ho-hum writing? In the inaugural article of this series, “Raise the Bar: Building Better Writing Assignments,” the value of writing and general strategies on developing structured writing assignments were introduced. Chunking a large writing project into smaller tasks with specific milestones can lead to writing improvements, as […]
Engaging Course Materials with Perusall
If students are not engaging with your course materials, you might want to consider incorporating Perusall in your course. Perusall is a learning tool that makes reading collaborative and interactive, motivating students to not only complete readings but also understand and retain information more effectively. It does this by embedding opportunities for discussion within the text of […]