When Kimerly Powell, faculty in The Ohio State University’s College of Medicine , was tapped to design and lead an online course in biomedical informatics, she enlisted the help of Marjorie Kelley, a consultant with online teaching and...
When teaching a class online, how do you ensure your students are able to find the information they need to be successful in the course? Portuguese Lecturer Schirlei Silveira tackled this challenge by creating a simple, effective homepage to help her students navigate their online learning experience.
Organizers of Kickstart Week have long preached its benefits to instructors of all stripes. Though the four-day intensive offered by t he Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) is designed to teach the basics of online course design...
Teaching online can be difficult. Whatever your goals, you can accomplish them and gain the skills to set you and students up for success with Kickstart Week.
It can be daunting putting together a new online course all on your own. But luckily, with the help of the people in the Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE), you don’t always have to. The Distance Education Learning and Teaching Academy (DELTA) provides faculty and staff with the...
To help you build better courses in CarmenCanvas, instructional designers share recommendations and best practices they created based on student feedback. If you are not sure where to start, or you are looking for ways to improve your current courses, these tips can help you build courses that...
Creating an awesome online course is like following your favorite recipe – start with a base, add the meat, and finish off with a little bit of spice. And like cooking some award-winning chili, the English as a Second Language Composition (ESL) program slow cooked their online courses with the...
As distance education grows at The Ohio State University, the need for quality processes for online course creation and review grows as well. To assist this need, the Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) uses the Quality Matters rubric as the foundation of its...
After months of research around processes and best practices for quality course design and review, the Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) is launching its new Quality Assurance (QA) process .
