On-Campus Resources:
- Faculty Pedagogy and Technology Discussion channels in MS Teams … for chat and conversation about pedagogy, technology, community building, and wellbeing, start here. DLAC team members will monitor and respond to questions, prompts, etc.
- Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative (DLAC): For general support with the integration of pedagogy and technology, contact the Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative at dlac@grinnell.edu.
- Form to request a domain/website on sites.grinnell.edu … with available installation of WordPress, Omeka, Scalar, Mediawiki, and other web applications
- Information Technology Services (ITS):
- Training schedule for Blackboard, WebEx, Microsoft Teams, VoiceThread, Hypothes.is
- Technology Quick Start Guide for 2020
- Approved Software List
- Academic Computing Usage Policies
- Software request form … hardware request form
- For support: ITservices@grinnell.edu or help.grinnell.edu
- Grinnell College Libraries
- Library Resources for Distance Learning
- For further support, query@grinnell.edu
- Grinnell College Writing Lab: available online to help you work through the design of writing assignments with your students. Contact turktisha@grinnell.edu
- Data Analysis and Social Inquiry Lab: For support and further information, dasil@grinnell.edu
- Academic Support Associates: contact Stephanie Peterson at petersos@grinnell.edu
- Accessibility and Disability Services Faculty Instructional Resources: contact Autumn Wilke at wilkeaut@grinnell.edu
- Assistive Technology: Contact Sondi Burnell at burnell@grinnell.edu
- Academic Advising: Contact at advising@grinnell.edu
Guides for Designing Online and Blended Courses
Associated Colleges of the Midwest Workshops on Online Course Design and Pedagogies
- Week 1 (June 8-12): “Teaching and Learning with Care and Hope: Ways of Being with Crisis, Trauma, and Uncertainty in the Classroom and Beyond” (Monday, June 8, 9:30–11:00 am CST) … video … slides
- Week 2 (June 15-19): “The Liberal Arts Mindset at a Distance. Tactics for Building a Hybrid Course … video … slides
- Week 3 (June 22-26): Reimagining Your Syllabus for Responsiveness: Aligning Goals, Assessments, and Strategies for Teaching” … video … slides
- Week 4 (June 29-July 2): “Developing Effective Assignments: Using Multiple Modes of Engagement and Assessment” … video … slides
- Week 5 (July 13-17): “Designing Your Course Once for Different Modalities” … video … slides
- Week 6 (July 20-24): “Embodied Learning Experiences” …
- Week 8 (August 3-7): “Fostering Student Collaboration and Groupwork in Remote Learning Environments” … video (password: Week7ACM!) … slides … group discussion instruction sheet … group discussion preparation notes … group discussion rubric
Online self-paced modules and resources:
- Muhlenberg College, “Camp Design Online. An Intensive Peer-Supported Learning Community for Bringing Courses Online“
- Bryn Mawr College Online Teaching Institute (guest registration)
- Pedagogies of Care. Open Resources for Student-Centered & Adaptive Strategies in the New Higher-Ed Landscape (From the Authors in the West Virginia University Press Teaching & Learning Series)
- Dave Cormier and Ashlyne O’Neil, “12 Key Ideas: An Introduction to Teaching Online”
- Lisa Lane, “Practical Online Pedagogy“
- Whitney Kilgore, “Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning“
- University of Michigan guide to designing online courses (self-paced asynchronous modules)
- Modern Language Association, “Bringing Your Course Online. A Guide to Online Teaching in the Humanities“
- University of Texas at Arlington EdX course (free), “Pivoting to Online Teaching: Research and Practitioner Perspectives“
- EDUCAUSE Learning Experience Pathways
- Online Learning Consortium Faculty Playbook, “Delivering High Quality Instruction Online in Response to COVID-19“
Books:
- Claire Major, Teaching Online. A Guide to Theory, Research, and Practice (2015; freely available during COVID—19 pandemic) … Introduction … Teaching Online as Instructional Change … Faculty Knowledge … Views of Learning … Course Structure … Course Planning … Intellectual Property … Instructional Time … Teacher Persona … Communication … Student Rights … Student Engagement … Community … Conclusion … Notes … References
- Michelle Miller, Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (2016)
- Matt Croslin, Creating Online Learning Experiences (2017; free download)
- Flower Darby, Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes (2019)
- George Veletsianos, Learning Online: The Student Experience (2020)
Articles and posts:
- Robert Talbert, series of posts on preparing for online teaching:
- Michelle Pacansky-Brock, et al., “Humanizing Online Teaching to Equitize Higher Education“
- Jaime Hoffman, Megan Eberhardt-Alstot, and Jill Leafstedt, “Orienting Students to Online Learning: A Must for Student Success“
- Dave Cormier, “Online Learning Resources” and “Move to Online Learning: 12 Key Ideas“
- Mike Caulfield, “Teaching Presence“
- John Stewart, “Providing Feedback to Students Online“
- Ryan Bower, “Guide to Understanding by Design“
Application and activity-specific resources:
- Teach with Wikipedia … resources for creating assignments for students to write and edit Wikipedia articles
- Jesslyn Wilkinson, “Social Reading and Annotation with Hypothes.is“
- Hypothes.is webinar, “Social Reading, Collaborative Annotation, and Remote Learning with Hypothes.is“
- Mike Wesch, “Super Simple Videos: 5 Tips and 5 Reasons to Get On Camera”
- Cynthia Brame, “Effective Educational Videos” (from Vanderbilt Center for Teaching)
- Patrick Murphy, “Flipgrid: Empowering Voices with Asynchronous Online Video Discussions” (from Vanderbilt Center for Teaching)
- Laura Gibbs, on how to incorporate student blogging in online courses
Discipline-specific resources:
- Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, “Activities for Remote Language Learning“
- Heather Taft, “How to Quickly (and Safely) Move a Lab Course Online“
- Art History/Studio Art-specific resources
- CUNY’s guide includes a designated resource page for the lab sciences
- Duke managing labs
- Dance Studies Association
- Association for Theatre in Higher Education
- UC Berkeley CTL labs/studios best practices
- Baylor running labs
- Boston University science labs
- Bowdoin lab
- Brown Sheridan includes lab options
- Dartmouth list of science lab options
- POD network virtual/simulation science resources
- George Mason science lab alternatives
- Maryland Institute College of Art resources
Guides for Emergency Remote Teaching
- University of Oklahoma Teach Anywhere and Learn Anywhere
- Rice University CTE Guide to Teaching Continuity and Resources for Academic Writing and Communication
- Instructional Continuity at Georgetown University
- Jenae Cohen and Beth Selzer (Stanford), “Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption“
- Bard Center for Experimental Humanities COVID-19 Teaching Guide
- Lindsey Wieck, “An Equitable Transition to Online Learning: Flexibility, Low Bandwidth, Cellphones, and More“
- HASTAC blog post with linked resources from Dartmouth’s Jacqueline Wernimont. Google doc that curates a bunch of different resources (curated by Jacqueline Wernimont at Dartmouth and Cathy Davidson at CUNY).
- The MLA also put together a site with resources
- Cate Denial (pedagogy specialist, History at Knox) created a Google doc guide for her department
- Flower Darby, How to be a Better Online Teacher with pedagogy-focused resources
- Google doc from Stanford with resources on transitioning to distance teaching/learning
- University of Illinois Springfield (“Online Instructional Activities”)
- POD Network spreadsheet with links to instructional continuity sites/guides individual schools have been creating.
- Online Learning Consortium Resources
- LACOL list of liberal arts college guides
- Cal State Channel Islands, “Keep Teaching, Learning, and Working” and “Six Steps to Keep CI Teaching“
- “Online Learning in a Hurry” (University of Windsor)
