Please review the list of Summer Workshops available from the Center for Distance and Online Learning. If you have any questions about either the online instructor training or Blackboard Basics workshops, please contact Elissa at e.baker@hvcc.edu.
Online Instructor Training
For about 20 years, Hudson Valley Community College has had a Quality Assurance protocol that required online faculty to be trained in best practices. Additionally, the faculty contract requires it. And SUNY research has documented that it takes about 150 hours to build a course. Because the college is committed to faculty academic freedom, we train faculty using a minimalist template and spread the training out over a full semester to allow faculty to experiment, build multimedia, and otherwise design a robust course with the help of instructional designers. This is called the PEOCDD or Pedagogy of Effective Course Design and Delivery. And we are now referring to that as “the classic.” With the rapid move to remote and online only classes, we needed to get untrained faculty up to speed quickly and developed the online instructor boot camps.
Online Instructor Boot Camp
The online instructor boot camp workshop is “the classic” condensed into a one week Wed-Fri/Mon-Wed two-hour long intensive session followed by a week to build the course. The training is best for faculty who will be teaching fully asynchronous (no set meeting time) online courses in the second Summer 2020 session or Fall 2020. You will learn tools and strategies in class sessions, and in between class sessions you build out your course. At the end of two weeks, the course is complete and it is reviewed with the Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR) rubric for best practices. It is then sent to your department chair for review and approval. This offering is ideal for those who are committed to spending a couple of weeks doing primarily online course building every day. If you have a tight schedule or lots on your plate, this will probably be too much to do in two weeks.
Training Dates: June 3 to 10 with a week to build and June 19 for OSCQR. One-on-One appointments will be available on June 11 or 12.
- Registration Form — Registration Deadline: June 1
Pedagogy of Online Course Development and Delivery (PEOCDD)
The “classic” online instructor training workshop for faculty who will be teaching a fully asynchronous (no set meeting time) online course in Fall 2020. Faculty meet for two hours each week and learn tools and strategies, and in between class sessions they build out their course. At the end of the workshop, the course is complete and it is reviewed with the OSCQR rubric for best practices. It is then sent to your DC for review and approval. This is an excellent choice for media rich courses, complex course builds, course revisions, and building more sophisticated courses, as well as just an excellent way to really learn the tools and structures.
Training Dates: 7 weeks, starting the week of June 15 and ending the week of August 3 (no sessions the week of July 20 –subject to change).
- Registration Form — Registration Deadline: June 12
Blackboard Basics
The Blackboard Basics workshop series will prepare faculty to participate in online learning by supporting their face-to-face (F2F) or remote (set meeting time) instruction using the college’s learning management system, Blackboard. Web-enhancing your course using Blackboard can range from providing students with easier access to course documents to using new approaches to teaching and learning such as taking tests, submitting assignments, or discussions.
Training Dates: 6 weeks, starting the week of June 15 and ending the week of July 27th (no sessions the week of July 20th – subject to change).
- Registration Form — Registration Deadline: June 12
On-Demand Workshops
Please contact DL Help at DLhelp@hvcc.edu to request an on-demand workshop.
- Blackboard Grading Basics
- Respondus Test Creation or Lockdown Browser
- Zoom
- TechSmith Relay
- VoiceThread
- Collaborate
- Blackboard Organizations
Published: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:10:54 +0000 by e.baker