http://online.rit.edu
R O C H E S T E R
I N S T I T U T E
Faculty support
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T E C H N O L O G Y
Online Learning assists individual faculty and departments in designing
and developing their online, blended and technology-enhanced courses.
Our support extends from one-on-one consultations to group workshops
and webinars to online tutorials. We’ll help you:
Our mission:
At Online Learning…
We help faculty find innovative
and effective ways to use
technology and provide
comprehensive support
services for students in online
courses and programs.
Drawing on expertise in
technology and pedagogy,
we assist faculty with all
aspects of course design and
help colleges and departments
develop online programs.
We also share information
about effective practices across
the university and examine the
effect of technology on teaching
and learning.
We believe instructional
technology contributes to RIT’s
academic excellence—fostering
greater communication and
collaboration, encouraging
active learning, streamlining
course administration,
increasing student engagement
and developing students’ skills
for future learning and work.
• Build a collaborative
online learning community
• Develop and manage
engaging discussion
• Leverage myCourses
to increase your productivity
• Plan and facilitate
web conferences
• Make your course accessible to all learners
Student support
Students rely on us to help them understand and use online learning
technology. From getting started in myCourses to online course
evaluations, we make sure students experience a high level of support
to ensure their success. Services we provide include:
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Centralized student support with phone, e-mail and walk-in services
Student orientation
Proctored exam coordination
Student satisfaction surveys
Online course evaluations
Facts and stats
• Over 20 complete online degree programs including graduate
and undergraduate degrees and 29 certificate programs
• Over 8,400 enrollments per year in online courses, with a 95 percent
completion rate
• Over 500 online courses offered annually, starting four times a year
• More than 4,300 unique students take online courses each
academic year
• RIT has three times the national number of faculty teaching online
courses according to the National Center of Education Statistics—
RIT has over 19 percent, nationally only 6 percent of faculty teach online
• More students at RIT have taken online courses—22 percent
of students at RIT compared with 17 percent nationally
• More than 120 faculty have participated in the Blended Learning
Program, combining the best of online and face-to-face instruction
Online Learning supports effective teaching and learning
across the entire continuum of computer-mediated instruction:
Online <–––> Blended <–––> Technology-enhanced
ONLINE COURSES are taught asynchronously through
the Internet and myCourses, allowing students to take
classes from anywhere. All online courses are instructorled and highly interactive; typical activities include
online discussions and debates, real-time chat and
web-conferencing sessions, small group work,
self-testing exercises and simulations.
BLENDED COURSES integrate an appealing combination
of classroom and online interaction. Most blended
courses replace 25 to 50 percent of classroom time with
online instructor-guided activities through myCourses.
These courses allow for more active learning and
flexible scheduling, while maintaining the face-to-face
contact characteristic of the classroom.
TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED COURSES are on-campus
classroom courses integrating various instructional
technologies—using myCourses to distribute course
materials, post grades and other feedback online and
offer convenient submission of work through the
Dropbox; or that use student-response and
web-conferencing systems.
You can use a variety of techniques and technology to deliver your courses.
We’ll help you sort through the options to design learning activities that coincide with your desired learning outcomes.
myCourses
Interact with students, post courserelated information, offer quizzes and
exams with automatic grading and
create a flexible and interactive
environment for every type of course.
This web-based software has both
academic and non-instructional uses.
Its integrated class and group e-mail
lists, discussion boards and live chat
facilitate online communities and
even search committees.
myCourses is associated with all
12,000 RIT courses offered each year.
It’s had more than 1 million student
logins since summer 2005 and
47 percent of all courses use one
or more of its features.
Teaching and Learning
Technology lab
Use this campus resource to
develop your skills in online
instruction and create class materials.
Here you can create a range of course
materials from simple handouts and
PowerPoint presentations to
multimedia audio/video streaming
projects.
We offer faculty development
workshops and one-on-one sessions
in teaching online, using course
management systems and
instructional tools.
Web conferencing
Record video lectures or voiceannotated PowerPoint presentations
in the easy-to-use Studio G. Part of the
Teaching and Learning Technology
Lab, Studio G is equipped with
professional audio and video
equipment. After an initial
introduction to the facility, you can
use it on your own.
Online course evaluations
Studio G
R O C H E S T E R
More than 20 percent of RIT
courses use online course evaluations,
with only 6 percent of those being
online courses.
Share PowerPoint presentations and
other materials online, bring in a guest
expert from anywhere in the world,
or advise a student at another location
“in-person.”
This web-based communication tool
allows audio and video discussion,
whiteboards and text chat.
More than 200 RIT faculty have
used this technology since its launch
in summer 2006.
Clipboard survey tool
Find out how students rate your class
quickly and efficiently. This tool can
give you immediate feedback,
summary reports, compare results with
other instructors teaching the same
course and offer an overall look at the
entire department and college’s
performance, depending on how your
department has set up its reporting
features.
I N S T I T U T E
O F
Want to know what people think
about something? Survey them!
The Clipboard online survey system
allows RIT faculty and staff to set up,
deliver and evaluate surveys with a
user-friendly web-based tool.
More than 2,000 surveys have been
developed and deployed since
spring 2004.
Student Response Systems
Often called “clickers” on campus,
these wireless keypads are used in
classroom-based courses to get input
from a large audience within seconds.
They allow faculty to assess students’
understanding of a topic, actively
engage students through surveys and
T E C H N O L O G Y
pretest questions and take attendance.
Clickers are one example of how
Online Learning supports campus
technology as a whole, bringing new
tools and techniques into the
classroom.
More than 100 courses with more
than 1,500 students have used clickers
since fall 2005.
Customized approaches
Don’t see what you’re looking for?
Online Learning stays on top of
emerging technology and thrives
on collaborations with faculty.
For example, we’ve supported
projects that explore live ASL
interpreting of web conferences,
tablet PCs, online peer-to-peer
evaluation systems, podcasting and
virtual learning environments
such as Second Life.
Staff
JOEANN HUMBERT, DIRECTOR,
Richard
Fasse
Assistant Director,
Instructional
Design
rhfetc@rit.edu
585-475-5672
Cheryl
Herdklotz
Online
Curriculum
Resource
Specialist
cahetc@rit.edu
585-475-2030
Jeremiah
Parry-Hill
Information
Technology
Manager
jlpetc@rit.edu
585-475-2493
Damon
Betlow
Assistant Director,
Support Services
debetc@rit.edu
585-475-5922
Instructional Design
Marybeth
Koon
Instructional
Technology
Associate
mjmetc@rit.edu
585-475-6513
R O C H E S T E R
Katie
McDonald
Instructional
Technologist
kametc@rit.edu
585-475-7657
IT Team
Harry
Groover
Web
Administrator
hjgetc@rit.edu
585-475-7701
Erin
Hughson
Operations
Coordinator
edhetc@rit.edu
585-475-5089
Contact
information:
JMHETC@RIT.EDU 585-475-7186
Ian
Webber
Interactive Media
Developer
jiwetc@rit.edu
585-475-5084
Support Services
Ken
Kindler
Technical Support
Supervisor
keketc@rit.edu
585-475-7734
Karen
Pannoni
Online
Curriculum
Resource Support
kadetc@rit.edu
585-475-5869
Michael
Starenko
Instructional
Designer
mssetc@rit.edu
585-475-5035
Chris
Williams
System
Administrator/
Web Developer
cjwetc@rit.edu
585-475-6698
Raychel
Rappold
Information
Control Analyst
rpretc@rit.edu
585-475-6694
Nicholas
Skvarla
Technical Support
Specialist
nmsetc@rit.edu
585-475-7247
LOCATION: Lower level of Wallace Library(Building 05), room A650
ADDRESS: 91 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5603
PHONE:
800-CALL-RIT (Voice/TTY)
585-475-5089 (Voice)
585-475-5896 (TTY)
FAX:
585-475-5077
E-MAIL:
online@rit.edu
WEB:
http://online.rit.edu
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