Online Learning offers a variety of live and self-paced training, as well as campus events. Some of the events require participants to register, as indicated by the “Register for this session here” links. If there is a certain topic or part of distance education that you believe would benefit faculty or students, please contact us. We’d love to hear your feedback!
How to Access Our Sessions on Teams
All of our virtual events are offered through the Distance Education Support Community Team. Once you have accessed the Team, click on the Training & Recordings channel. Every virtual session we offer is listed on this channel and is accessible to all faculty and staff at Marshall.
November
Fall Back Into Updating Your Courses
Monday, November 7 at 1:00 – 1:30 for set a set agenda, then available work time 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Use your extra hour of “falling back” to Spring forward to get your courses ready for Spring term. Come kick off National Distance Learning Week with designers, who will be on-hand to share tips and tricks for efficiently updating your Development courses. Faculty should bring their own devices to this session and come prepared to be “out with the old” information and “in with the new.”
Location: Drinko 138.
Assessing Student Learning Online
Tuesday, November 8 at 12:30 – 1:15 PM
Teams Training & Recordings channel
Are you concerned about academic dishonesty in online learning? Join us during National Distance Learning Week to learn ways to provide varied assessments, with test settings that will decrease the likelihood of students cheating their way through your exams.
Location: Teams/ In person: Drinko 349.
Definitions, Deadlines, Do’s & Don’ts
Wednesday, November 9 at 12:00 – 12:45
Teams Training & Recordings channel
There are many types of distance education courses, policies, and best practices. How do you get started designing a course or an online degree program? What are the basic guidelines you need to know in order to take those first steps? As part of our series for National Distance Learning Week, this session will explain course modality types, with examples, and walk faculty through the basic stages of how to prepare course content for a distance delivery mode.
Location: Teams/ In person: Drinko 349
Building a Community of Belonging in Online
Thursday, November 10 at 12:00 – 1:00
Teams Training & Recordings channel
Faculty are invited to join a pilot project to enhance student’s sense of belonging in their online classes. Working with Kevin Binning, Associate Professor from the University of Pittsburgh and leading expert in this research, Marshall Online is working to develop an asynchronous course activity to cultivate student’s sense of belonging.
Location: Teams/ In Person: Drinko 138
Anthology (Blackboard) Digital Teaching Symposium
Thursday, November 10 at 8:00 – 12:00 & 1:00 – 5:00
Join Online Learning as they share Anthology’s Digital Teaching Symposium. The symposium has a collection of events focused around furthering your familiarity and understanding of learning technologies. Feel free to drop by or leave at your leisure.
Location: Drinko 138
Open House- Meet the Design Center Team
Friday, November 11 at 12:00 – 2:00
Let’s wrap up National Distance Learning Week with some fun! Stop by the Design Center (Drinko 235) for a visit with Online Education Team. Come for snacks, but feel free to come with any questions you may have.
Location: Design Center, Drinko 235
Increasing Student Engagement in Online Courses
Wednesday, November 16 at 12:00 – 12:45 PM
Teams Training & Recordings channel
Have a hard time getting students to engage online? Look at some beginner methods with us.
December
Video and Media tools for Enhanced Student Feedback and Connectivity
Thursday, December 15th at 12:00 – 12:45
Wanting to connect more with your students and engage in a more personable interaction hundreds miles away? Try using these tools to help accomplish your student feedback connectivity goals with VoiceThread and Flipgrid!
Brief discussion followed by live demo of both tools.
Teams Training & Recordings channel