Distance Learning Resources

In response to the sudden shift to remote teaching
and learning faculty made in spring 2020, Connecticut’s Center for Teaching
revived our popular Teaching with Technology series!

In the Summer of 2020, CT CFT offered workshops
that focus on key areas CC faculty identified as professional development
needs, with each month focused on a different theme.  The focus was
on teaching and pedagogy, not on the technical aspects of tools, although we
provided plenty of support and resources asynchronously through Teams to help
with that too. Our facilitators, Tara Jo Holmberg (NCCC) and Steve Mark
(HCC) ran the workshops and asynchronous discussions to point attendees in the
right direction.

Our Current program is an asynchronous collection
of videos with new videos being added each semester. You can access the videos
below.

Our Summer 2020 Topics are listed below and Attendees
of our live summer 2020 sessions are all enrolled in our CCC-(CFT) TWT Faculty
“Summer Camp” in MS Teams for further discussion and resource
sharing!

Teaching with Technology Online series

Introduction to the Series

Dissolving the Screen

Energizing and Engaging Your Online Classes with Active-Learning

Disabilities, Equity and Inclusion: Universal Design for Learning

Summer 2020 Topics

June 18^th: Creating an Engaging Online Learning Environment

Discover tools that are low-threshold (i.e. easy to learn!) for you and your students. Make your class more appealing and engaging with simple video, audio, and dynamic presentation tools. Discussions will include how and why to use multimedia in Blackboard and making sure your content is accessible and inclusive.

June 25^th: Online Active Learning Tools and Techniques
Engage with a range of free apps and online tools, some baked right into Teams and Blackboard. Encourage meaningful discussion, creativity, critical thinking, and the exchange of ideas, all while connecting students to one another, to you, and the course.

July 16th: Assignments and Assessments that Invite Deeper Learning
Explore how to distinguish between and best use formative and summative online assignments in any discipline. Dive more deeply into Discussions and learn how to create meaningful interactions between your students that deepen learning and foster connection. Encourage reflection and meta-cognition and learn simple classroom assessment techniques that will help you better tailor your class to students’ needs.

July 23rd: Assignments, Assessments, & Grading to Promote Critical Thinking

Picking up from the July 16th session, explore a wide variety of online assignments and assessments – both individual and collaborative – useful for any course. Identify best practices in grading online assignments and assessments.
August 20^th: Increasing Student Retention in an Online Environment
What can you do to “stick” students to the course, you, and each other? We’ll begin by exploring what you can do, in the first few weeks of classes, to “stick” students to the course, to you, and to each other. From there, we’ll move into the tools, techniques, and strategies that can help to create a sense of classroom community and help students to “stay the course” in an online environment throughout the semester.