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Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center

Online Teaching Series

The online teaching environment poses unique opportunities for faculty unlike many familiar face-to-face contexts.  Those considering teaching in the online environment for the first time often have questions as to where to begin. This new series of hands-on workshops provides NIU faculty and staff with a systematic overview of the various pedagogical and pragmatic considerations necessary in offering a quality online learning experience for students. Through this series, participants will have opportunity to:

  • Experience from the student's perspective various aspects of a sample online course deployed using Blackboard.
  • Explore the various roles and responsibilities of online faculty and students.
  • Identify effective online teaching strategies.
  • Take an online teaching inventory to identify strengths and weaknesses.
  • Review strategies and engage in hands-on activities for redesigning course materials for online delivery.
  • Discuss copyright, intellectual property, fair use, and accessibility considerations.
  • Craft a course structure and various interactive course components in Blackboard.
  • Explore strategies for promoting communication in the online learning environment.
  • Experience various online assessment tools to facilitate teaching and learning and practice configuring sample course assessments.
  • Redesign a face-to-face lesson for online delivery.

Any NIU faculty and staff interested in developing and teaching an online or blended course will find this series of workshops to be of benefit. While each session is stand-alone, participants who complete the entire series of sessions will likely benefit most.

Details concerning upcoming online teaching series workshops will be provided here as soon as they become available. To be notified when new workshops are announced, subscribe to the faculty/staff program schedule.

Last Updated: 11/14/2008