Distance Education Academy

Over the next two weeks, about 15-20 faculty in the College of Liberal Arts are coming together for our Distance Education Academy, a series of intense workshops to rethink courses that are traditionally taught face-to--face for complete online delivery.  The subject areas range from Art to Theatre, with English, Psychology, Political Science, Journalism, Foreign Languages (Spanish), Philosophy, and Sociology adding to the complexity.

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We are using Canvas, our learning management system, and have all the participants in it as students so that they can experience all the tools, content delivery, and communication from a student perspective.  With an awesome line-up of guest speakers we are getting perspectives on

• Quality Matters
• Faculty who are teaching online
• Backwards Design
• Copyright
• Accessibility
• Library Resources
• Video/Multimedia integration
• FERPA