The Teaching and Learning Centre is offering an ongoing MicroCourse series of workshops (essential Blackboard tools for online courses), with synchronous sessions for each MicroCourse scheduled weekly.
Upcoming Schedule:
MicroCourse 1 – Course Organization — Tues, Nov 17 at 11 am
MicroCourse 2 – Adapting Instruction — tba
MicroCourse 3 – Assessments — Thurs, Nov 19 at 2 pm
MicroCourse 4 – Discussion Forum — tba
MicroCourse 5 – Course Video — Thurs, Nov 19 at 11 am
MicroCourse 6 — Synchronous Sessions –Thurs, Nov 26 at 10 am
MicroCourse 7 – Inclusivity Online — Thurs, Nov 26 at 2 pm
MicroCourse 8 – Managing Your Online Course — Mon, Nov 16 at 11 am
The primary objective of these MicroCourses is the pedagogy behind the tools and how they can be used to:
*achieve learning objectives
*promote student engagement
*collaborate among peers and instructors
*creative easy-to-navigate course design
*assess student learning
*offer support to students
*create an online learning community
Each course consists of:
*a one-hour scheduled synchronous session
*an additional Blackboard course
*a one-hour asynchronous activity/reading/resource
Sessions are open to all UFV employees.
Here is a link to the workshops and their descriptions: http://events.ufv.ca/tlc/
For more information, contact Leah Lyon at tlcevents@ufv.ca
11/20/2020