In this episode of Designed for Online, Jenny Quarles joins the Ask Ashley segment to discuss best practices for online courses. New episodes will be featured the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month.

It can be challenging to translate the classroom discussion experience to a virtual environment. In this episode, we are joined by Kristin Palmer, the Director of Online Learning Programs at the University of Virginia, for a conversation about designing opportunities that facilitate active discussion in online spaces.

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/03/27/new-approaches-discussion-boards-aim-dynamic-online-learning

https://jisajournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13174-019-0120-0

In this episode of Designed for Online, Jenny Quarles joins the Ask Ashley segment to discuss ways you can make your course less text heavy by implementing multimedia content. New episodes will be featured the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month so be sure to check them out on Spotify or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

It can be difficult to determine our distance students' social and emotional needs. In this episode, host Ashley Caudill speaks with UVA faculty members Tish Jennings and Pamela Nicolas-Hoff about the importance of being mindful and ways faculty can integrate mindfulness teaching practices into their online courses.

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This episode is a part of our Ask Ashley Segment where Ashley Caudill and Jenny Quarles will answer instructional design related questions submitted by faculty.  Join Ashley and Jenny as they discuss ways in which you can motivate learners and get them engaged in your content.

This episode looks at the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting shift to emergency remote teaching, has influenced current teaching practices as students and faculty return to the classroom. Host Ashley Caudill speaks with UVA faculty members Melissa Levy and Jessamyn Manson about how they adapted their instructional methods to teaching remotely, and whether they’ve maintained any of those strategies as they have returned to in-person instruction.

References:

Fensterwald, J. (2021). Teachers on covid: Lessons learned and advice to pass along. Edsource. https://edsource.org/2021/teachers-on-covid-lessons-learned-and-advice-to-pass-along/652202

Ferlazzo, L. (2021). Pandemic lessons for a post-covid classroom. Education week. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-pandemic-lessons-for-a-post-covid-classroom/2021/01

Goin Kono, K. & Taylor, S. (2021). Using an ethos of care to bridge the digital divide: Exploring

Klein, C. (2021, February 21). Takeaways from distance learning. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/takeaways-distance-learning

Shea, P. (2021). Online Learning, 25 (1) http://dx.doi.org/10.24059/olj.v25i1.2711

Season Two of Designed for Online launches next week!

The second episode of every month is our Tech Talk Tuesday edition, which focuses on more specific online related questions from UVA faculty. Featuring tech tips from Dave Stoops and Bernadette Poerio, join us for a conversation about the benefits of the new rich content editor and notification features in Canvas. During the Ask Ashley segment, join Ashley Caudill and Jenny Quarles as they discuss ways in which instructors can take full advantage of the collaborative tool that allows students to edit content pages within a course.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, educators and students were forced to transition into a completely virtual classroom environment. Although online learning has been a part of higher education for decades, some still believe that it’s not as effective as traditional, in-person classes. In this episode, join three UVA School of Education and Human Development faculty as they discuss legitimizing online learning.