Optimizing High Quality Digital Learning Experiences - A Playbook for Faculty

Learning to teach online is a developmental process, an iterative course refinement process. As such, the authors of this guide encourage faculty to embrace this learning on multiple levels. This updated playbook is organized to guide educators through the learning process to help operationalize
best practices in face-to-face and online instruction through a stepwise process: design, enhance, and optimize.

ACUE's Online Teaching Toolkit

ACUE's Online Teaching Toolkit (lots of good information)

Planning for a Blended Future

Planning for a Blended Future is designed to serve as a resource for educators to guide strategic planning for blended learning courses and programs. By thoughtfully and strategically considering design and technologies to create meaningful connectedness across distance through active learning pedagogies, real learning can be achieved.

A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies

The U.S. Department of Education’s 2010 study “Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies” noted that: “Students in online conditions performed modestly better, on average, than those learning the same material through traditional face-to-face instruction” (p. xiv) and, notably, “Instruction combining online and face-to-face elements had a larger advantage relative to purely face-to-face instruction than did purely online instruction” (p. xv).

Blackboard Learning Management System

Blackboard Learn is a virtual learning environment and learning management system for teaching, learning, community building, and knowledge sharing. You can use any theory or model for teaching your online course because Blackboard Learn is open, flexible, and centered on student achievement.

Panopto Lecture Capture

Panopto is a lecture capture software that allows the user to include video, audio, screen capture, and slides into a recording.

Integrating Library Resources in Blackboard

This research guide is designed to assist faculty with incorporating library resources into Blackboard, such as Films on Demand, eBooks, and other digital resources available through Wiggins Library.

Library Resources for Online Education

This library webpage highlights library resources, research guides, online tutorials, ILL options, and librarian support offered virtually.

Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor

LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment in Blackboard Learn (Original or Ultra Course View). When students use LockDown Browser to take a Blackboard test, they are unable to print, copy, go to other websites, access other applications, or close a test until it is submitted for grading.

Respondus Monitor is a fully-automated proctoring solution. Students use a webcam to record themselves during an online exam. Afterward, flagged events and proctoring results are available to the instructor for further review.

Proctoring for Online Exams

Assessment Resource with Examples
Unproctored Online Assessments

Faculty Focus Article
Giving Non-Proctored Online Assessments

Faculty Focus Article

Online Open Book Tests

Blackboard Assessments-Tests, Pools, and Surveys