Other Resources

DELTA has added an NC State Virtual Background generator to its WolfWare suite of tools. We are working on a story about it but thought some of you may want to share. It has a place to add your name/college/identity, etc. The backgrounds may be used in Zoom, Hangouts and Panopto (our newest content capture media tool that goes enterprise in May to replace Mediasite). https://wolfware.ncsu.edu/virtual-backgrounds/

Jenae Cohn (Director, Academic Technology, California State University-Sacramento) has compiled an annotated list of 10 excellent articles focused on online learning. Her blog is also a great resource about teaching and learning with technology.

"Happy New Year, Wolfpack! Last spring semester, the NC State community made an unprecedented shift to remote learning. NC State educators adapted to the online learning environment, explored new teaching tools, and mapped a way forward for your students — many for the first time. All the while, DELTA was there to help.

Since then, many have become comfortable with the technologies that once felt foreign. You not only know how to teach online but how to engage and connect with your students in new and creative ways. Now, as we begin a mix of in-person, hybrid and online learning for the spring 2021 semester, you are ready, and you can count on DELTA to stand with you and help you take your teaching to new heights.

Here are some helpful resources to make your spring the best it can be."

This has been a trying semester for all of us, and it seems likely that next semester will also be difficult. This holds true for our students and particularly for students from minority or underserved populations. The College of Natural Resources JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) committee has pulled together a list of suggested practices for making our online classes more inclusive for our most vulnerable students, that will also benefit our entire student population.

Practical suggestions are provided on ...

• A focus on empathy, flexibility, & grace

• Use of student cameras in online sessions

• Use of language, and particularly gender pronouns

• Recording your Zoom sessions

• Quality of life recommendations

• Inclusive teaching and learning in a virtual environment

Please have a look at the document!

Features FER's Megan Lupek and PRTM's Annette Moore.

The Lecture Breakers podcast is the place where educators share innovative teaching strategies to help you break up your lecture, energize your classroom, increase student engagement, and improve learning. The series is hosted by Barbi Honeycutt, teaching and learning consultant, formerly with NC State University's Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning.

I've collected a number of resources to help get you started on building a hybrid course. Each of these resources is relatively brief, to the point, and has examples to help clarify and de-mystify the conceptual principles.

Not your mother's online class (Inside Higher Ed 2018) - provides high-level discussion of hybrid learning; somewhat light on examples but a good foundational read.

Getting started with designing a hybrid course online (Cornell U, undated) - list of activities appropriate for offline and in-class work; includes section on how to prepare students for the experience; includes additional resources

An introduction to hybrid teaching (College of DuPage, undated) - design, planning, structure, best use of "together time," failure modes, additional resources

Hybrid learning & teaching (UT Austin, undated) - design principles, helping students, collaborative assignments

Blended & online learning (Vanderbilt U, circa 2013) - design and organizational concepts, preparing students for the experience, list of additional resources

Workshops

Previously recorded workshops

Summer Short Workshops in Instructional Technologies

LearnTech YouTube Channel

Open Educational Resources ... if you're looking for content for your course

Alternative assessment resources for teaching & learning online (NCSU DELTA News)

About Flexible Teaching ... Our goal is to help Duke faculty design and develop courses that can be successful in any mode of delivery — face-to-face, online or hybrid. To that end, we are committed to helping you create the most resilient, flexible course(s) possible. We are calling this effort “flexible teaching.”

A Guide to Course Design ... Though flexible teaching practices can be implemented at any time and for any course, for Fall 2020, you should assume that at least some of your students will be participating remotely. It is also likely that many faculty will be teaching remotely. All courses should therefore be designed to be online, even if it may be possible to interact with students in person from time to time.

A Guide to Course Delivery ... Choosing the appropriate technologies for your course can be challenging. I t takes time to identify what tools will be most effective and master them. We encourage you to adopt the motto “less is more.” Using a few tools well can be equally effective as incorporating more complicated technologies.

An intensive, peer-supported learning community for bringing courses online. Takes timeless approaches to course development and applies them to online learning. https://campdesign.online/

Pedagogies of Care is a website that offers articles, podcasts, and videos about infusing your online teaching with care to create an engaging, welcoming, inclusive environment. Topics include course design, collaboration, and assessment. Note that the site is connected to a book from WVU Press.

"Teacher Training Videos was founded in 2007 [by Russell Stannard, U Westminster]. The website offers free step by step videos to help teachers ( and students) incorporate technology into their teaching and learning. Our main aim is to help teachers who feel overwhelmed by the huge number of technologies available. Our moto is 'Simple Tech Help for Teachers' The organisation provides face to face and online training to companies and individuals."

The Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt has a wide range of resources available, including this toolbox of techniques for Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms.

The American Association of University Professors is running a free summer webinar series on issues of faculty governance and potential changes coming to higher education. AAUP membership does not seem to be required to register for webinars. Visit https://www.aaup.org/event/2020-summer-institute-online for more information and to register.

Teachers are designers: Addressing problems of practice in education (2017)

Yes, Your Zoom Teaching Can Be First-Rate (2020)

Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms (2020)

Transforming Teaching & Learning - a column from Inside Higher Education