{"id":22000,"date":"2020-04-03T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=22000"},"modified":"2020-04-03T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:54:04","slug":"microcourses-online-teaching-fundamentals-7-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2020\/04\/03\/microcourses-online-teaching-fundamentals-7-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroCourses &#8212; Online Teaching Fundamentals &#8212; 7 courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These series of MicroCourses will introduce the essential Blackboard tools, but the primary objective of these MicroCourses is the pedagogy behind the tools and how they can be used to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Achieve learning objectives<\/li>\n<li>Promote student engagement<\/li>\n<li>Collaborate among peers and instructors<\/li>\n<li>Creative easy-to-navigate course design<\/li>\n<li>Assess student learning<\/li>\n<li>Offer support to students<\/li>\n<li>Create an online learning community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Delivery &#8212; Each MicroCourse will be delivered in a one-hour scheduled synchronous session and an additional Blackboard course and asynchronous activity\/ reading\/ resource\/ that would take about one hour. Sessions will be recorded for reference in the asynchronous courses.<\/p>\n<p>All sessions will be open to UFV employees only. Each MicroCourse aims to require 1, 1.5, or 2 hours to complete, in-line with Lynda.com (LinkedIn) and Mentor Commons online courses. A synchronous component may be necessary in the Synchronous MicroSource.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback will be on a facilitator and peer feedback basis. Participants must create an activity, ILO, or assessment to complete the MicroCourse and receive a credential.<\/p>\n<p>Access &#8212; Each MicroCourse will reside in its own Blackboard course shell. Faculty and staff will be enrolled on request (after registration).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full MicroCourse series listing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Schedule:<\/p>\n<p>Micro1 &#8212; Course Organization \u2013 Starting Tues, April\u00a0 7\u00a0 at 11 am<\/p>\n<p>Micro2 &#8212; Adapting Instruction in Times of Crisis \u2013 Starting Wed, April 8 at 2 pm &amp; Tuesday, April 14 at 11 am<\/p>\n<p>Micro3 &#8212; Assessments \u2013 Starting Thurs, April 9t at 2 pm<\/p>\n<p>Micro4 &#8212; Create a compelling discussion forum \u2013 Starting Tues, April 7 at 2 pm &amp; Wednesday, April 15 at 11 am<\/p>\n<p>Micro5 &#8212; Make Your Course Videos \u2013 Starting Wed, April 8\u00a0 at 11 am &amp; Thursday, April 9th at 11 am<\/p>\n<p>Micro6 &#8212; Virtual Synchronous Teaching \u2013 Starting Tues, April 14 at 2:00 pm &amp; Thurs, April 16 At 11 am<\/p>\n<p>Micro7 &#8212; Inclusivity Online \u2013 Starting Thurs, April 16 at 2 pm<\/p>\n<p>More info on the individual courses available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ufv.ca\/tlc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ufv.ca\/tlc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Leah Lyon at <a href=\"mailto:tlcevents@ufv.ca\">tlcevents@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #fff;\">04\/16\/2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These series of MicroCourses will introduce the essential Blackboard tools, but 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 &#8230; <a title=\"MicroCourses &#8212; Online Teaching Fundamentals &#8212; 7 courses\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2020\/04\/03\/microcourses-online-teaching-fundamentals-7-courses\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunity","category-calendar","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22002,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions\/22002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}