Online Teaching Workshops – Spring 2016
Stark Campus Distance Learning Community of Practice
As part of the Stark Campus Distance Learning Community of Practice, we offer a full series of professional development
workshops for online and hybrid instructors of all levels of experience.
New and prospective DL instructors should take the introductory series (Preparing to Teach Online, Designing Your
Online or Hybrid Course, Building Your Online or Hybrid Course, and Delivering Your Online Course). These workshops
cover online teaching pedagogy and technology.
Instructors who have taught an online or hybrid course for at least one semester should take the Continuous
Improvement in Your Online or Hybrid Course workshop. This workshop provides you with tools to perform a formative
self-assessment of your course.
Please view the full workshop descriptions on the reverse side of this page.
Date
Time
Location
Event
Thurs 1/14
8:30am-4:00pm
MH CR1
Workshop Extravaganza (Prep, Design, Build, & Deliver)
Wed 1/27
9:00am-10:00am
MH CR1
Preparing to Teach Online
Wed 2/10
9:00am-11:00am
MH CR1
Designing Your Online or Hybrid Course
Wed 3/9
9:00am-11:00am
MH CR1
Building Your Online or Hybrid Course
Wed 3/16
10:30am-11:30am
MH CR1
ST: Library Resources
Wed 3/30
9:00am-11:00am
MH CR1
Delivering Your Online or Hybrid Course
Thurs 4/14
2:00pm-3:00pm
MH CR1
ST: Flipped Learning
Wed 4/20
9:00am-10:30am
MH CR1
Best Practices for Hybrid Courses
Wed 4/27
10:00am-11:30am
MH CR1
Continuous Improvement in Your Online or Hybrid Course
By appointment
Contact Katie Baer
Using the Kent State Online Blackboard Template
Registration is required for all workshops. Register here: http://tinyurl.com/DLCOP
Contact us for more information:
Jayne Moneysmith
Faculty Professional Development Coordinator
445 Main Hall
jmoneysm@kent.edu
330.244.3445 or Ext. 53445
Katie Baer
Educational Technology Designer
447 Main Hall
kbaer5@kent.edu
330.244.3447 or Ext. 53447
kent.edu/stark/edtech
Workshop Descriptions
Title
Workshop Extravaganza
Description
This session covers the content from the Preparing, Designing,
Building, and Delivering workshops (see descriptions below).
Preparing to Teach Online
This session will cover the roadmap from course proposal to course
delivery, with considerations for getting your course on the schedule
and a suggested timeline for each phase of developing the course.
This workshop is geared to prospective online instructors and will
also be beneficial for departmental course coordinators.
Designing Your Online or Hybrid Course This session covers best practices for designing online courses,
including the use of the Backward Design model, writing effective
learning outcomes, and aligning content to the learning outcomes.
This session stresses that pedagogy should drive technology and that
the course design should be established before beginning the course
building stage. This workshop is geared to instructors who are new
to online learning and builds on topics from the “Preparing to Teach
Online” workshop.
Building Your Online or Hybrid Course
This session will cover best practices for building online courses in
Blackboard. A Blackboard course template will be provided and the
physical structure and components of the template will be discussed.
Faculty may choose to adopt the template or simply use it as a model
for their own course structure and organization. This workshop is
geared to instructors who are new to online learning and builds on
topics from the “Designing Your Online or Hybrid Course” workshop.
Delivering Your Online or Hybrid Course This session will cover best practices for online course delivery,
focusing on communication, instructor presence, feedback, and
pacing. This workshop is geared to instructors who are new to online
learning and builds on topics from the “Building Your Online or Hybrid
Course” workshop.
Continuous Improvement in Your
This session will focus on improving existing online courses, featuring
Online or Hybrid Course
a rubric for self-evaluation and a plan for improvement. This
workshop is geared for instructors who have already taught at least
one online course.
Using the Kent State Online Blackboard One-on-one consultation and implementation of the Kent State
Template
Online Template. This is a stand-alone session geared to instructors
who do not attend the Course Design, Build, and Delivery series of
workshops.
Best Practices for Hybrid Courses
This session will cover research-based best practices that are specific
to the hybrid course format.
Special Topic: Library Resources
This session will showcase the variety of print and video resources
available through University Libraries and provide instruction on how
to integrate them into course materials.
Special Topic: Flipped Learning
This session will define “flipped learning,” discuss the potential
advantages and drawbacks of this pedagogical model, provide an
overview of recent scholarship, and discuss examples of successful
flipped classes. Participants will be encouraged to share their
experiences with flipped learning or to get feedback on steps they
might take to flip a current course.