Posted by Rhett McDaniel on Monday, June 21, 2021 in Commentary, Events, Learning Communities, Online Education, online teaching.

Even before the campus-wide move to online and remote teaching last year, the online teaching group was meeting regularly to explore challenges and opportunities. The Course Development Resources site (CDR), which has grown out of the work of this group over the last two years, is a self-paced guide to designing, building, teaching, or maintaining great courses in any modality, but particularly online. The CDR continues to expand as our group members develop new pages and guides as part of this learning community.

In the 2020-2021 academic year, we met monthly to think about and work on our own online and hybrid courses while also creating opportunities for others on campus to learn with us. This year, we presented two Conversation on Teaching events in January, one on Group Work and Student Collaboration Online facilitated by Julaine Fowlin and one on Accessibility and Equity in Course Design facilitated by Amanda Brockman. Resources from both of those events are forthcoming on the CDR. We also released a revised version of the page Assessing Student Needs in Your Online Course updated by Amanda Brockman and Emilie Hall and have additional new and updated pages scheduled to be released over the summer. Thank you to all of the members of this group for a year of collaboration and encouragement and we explored these timely topics together. 

If you want to be part of the online teaching group in the 2021-2022 academic year, you can get on our mailing list by filling out this form. For more information about the group or the CDR, please contact CFT Assistant Director Stacey Johnson at Stacey.m.johnson@vanderbilt.edu.

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