Unlock the Power of Digital Learning & Revolutionize Your Classroom!
Are you an educator looking to modernize your course content and adapt to the digital era? Look no further! Join us for an immersive 4-day workshop series that will empower you to transform your classroom and elevate your students' learning experience.
In this workshop series we will explore best practices and pedagogical approaches to transform/adapt your course materials and curriculum to online platforms. Whether you just want to extend your reach to students outside the classroom, create a flipped or hybrid classroom experience, teach a class that is fully online, or offer something in between, attending this studio will leave you with a path to digitalize the different aspects of your course.
Studio participants will have the opportunity to:
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Develop their skills and knowledge of digital course technologies
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Learn how to enhance their students' learning experience with innovative teaching methods
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Network with like-minded educators and exchange best practices
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Receive a badge upon completion and
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Receive ongoing support and feedback from CTL experts as they continue to build out their digital courses
Don't miss this opportunity to transform your teaching and inspire your students with cutting-edge digital course content.
Limited seats are available, so reserve your spot today!
📆 Dates: June 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th ⏰ Time: 9 a.m. to noon
📍 Location: Crosland 4160 🥐 Breakfast Provided!
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Workshop Highlights:
Each of the four days will focus on a different aspect of digitalizing your course including the structural and organizational elements, creating assessments and activities, digital content, and other areas of importance such as communication and accessibility. Each day of the studio will cover general best practices that can be applied to many different digital/course formats and as well as include aspects that allow participants to focus on their individually chosen digital formats.
Day 1: Building Your Digital Course Blueprint
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Understand the importance and benefits of digitalizing course content
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Identify what students need from digital materials and how digital content can help
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Learn basic design frameworks such as backwards design
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Explore best practices related to digital course design, organization, and alignment
Day 2: Creating Engaging Assessments & Interactive Learning Activities
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Gain insight into creating effective and clear online assessments
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Learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how to leverage those concepts for digital assessments
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Learn strategies for designing captivating Learning Activities
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Discover how to use interactive elements to boost student engagement
Day 3: Creating Digital Content
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Examine the best practices around digital course content
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Discuss the usage of AIs such as ChatGPT to help generate course content
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Explore different digital content tools including those for synchronous and asynchronous content delivery
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Learn the best practices for creating dynamic course multimedia such as videos
Day 4: Nuts & Bolts
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Create a communication plan and other course policies needed for a digital course
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Discuss instructor aspects unique to your digital format such as virtual office hours, announcements, collaborative pages, digital groups, and other areas of social presence
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Learn about accessibility tools such as Blackboard Ally to ensure your course is accessible to your students
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Examine methods for tracking student progress and performance