Beyond MOST

Websites

Mesa's Teaching Tree: Our Mesa College Teaching Tree is a great place to engage with colleagues in conversation about teaching in all modalities. The Teaching Tree is maintained by the Mesa Faculty Professional Learning Committee, and while it's not specific to online, there are certainly conversations and topics that are relevant for all teaching modalities.

SDCCD Online: SDCCD Online Learning Pathways is our District-wide hub for online learning support. In addition to being the server admins for our instance of Canvas, they also provide oversight, guidance, and training to support online teaching across the District. Here we've highlighted some of our favorites, but check out their Online Learning Pathways website for many more!

• Collection of Video Tutorials 

• SDCCD Online Training Calendar

• Online Faculty Certification Program

• SDCCD DE Handbook

• Camera Recommendations

• Software Available for Faculty

• Request form for a Canvas Account

CVC @ONE: @ONE is the professional development team of CVC and offers several kinds of support for online faculty across the California Community College system. Here are some of our favorite resources from @ONE, but please check out their Online Network of Educators website for many more!

• Byte-Sized Canvas

• @ONE cohort courses

• Professional Development Bundles

Readings

Note: Descriptions are taken from the links provided.

The Asynchronous Cookbook: Whether you're teaching mostly in person but looking for some regular, asynchronous activities to add to your course, or teaching a fully online course, this resource is for you. The activities in this cookbook draw on research and good practice in online course design to provide recipes - concise and specific instructions and examples - for adding asynchronous activities to a course. Meaningful interaction between students and instructors is a key ingredient in all of these recipes. You can download a PDF of the book, if desired, to reference it offline. 

How and Why to Humanize Your Online Course: Michelle Pacansky-Brock writes about the importance of humanized education and addresses eight key elements for building a humanized learning environment. Each element includes a link to additional examples and resources.

Humanizing Online Teaching to Equitize Higher Education: This paper presents a model for humanized online teaching using a theoretical framework influenced by Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), social presence, validation theory, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Six humanizing strategies with real teaching examples are discussed, in addition to goals for meaningful professional development to support the adoption of humanized online teaching.

#Openteach: The book combines the theory and practice of teaching online and contains examples and ideas, drawn from the voices of online educators and online students. Each chapter starts with a section outlining the key literature for the topic, then scenario activities, take-away downloadable resources, online educator videos, H5P interactive activities and participant generated teaching ideas. 

Resilient Pedagogy: As the first book in the Empower Teaching Open Access Book Series, Resilient Pedagogy offers a comprehensive collection on resilient pedagogy framed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social justice movements that have swept the globe. As a collection, Resilient Pedagogy is a multi-disciplinary and multi-perspective response to actions taken in different classrooms, across different institution types, and from individuals in different institutional roles.