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More than checking boxes: Beyond prescriptive learning

Earlier this week, Wendi Iacobello, one of our Instructional Designers, gave an excellent presentation at OLC’s Accelerate 2022 virtual conference. Her engaging talk on contextualized learning explored how…

Connective Tissue: Community in Online Courses and Spaces via Keegan Long-Wheeler (external)

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Four individuals with arms around each others backs, dressed in bright pink, purple, and red clothing.

Four individuals with arms around each others backs, dressed in bright pink, purple, and red clothing.
This post was written as an assignment for my graduate program. Specifically my course on Critical Digital Pedagogy (INTE 5360). I am reposting it here. When reflecting on positive experiences of community and belonging in academia, the following  are two examples that first come to mind. When I was nearing the end of my undergraduate […]

Inclusive Online Teaching: Designing Accessible Content on Canvas

This post is the third in a three-part series adapted from a workshop given by ODL course developer Clarissa Anderson at the 2022 OU Online conference. In this…

Inclusive Online Teaching: Incorporating Universal Design for Learning

This post is the second in a three-part series adapted from a workshop given by ODL course developer Clarissa Anderson at the 2022 OU Online conference. In this…

Inclusive Online Teaching: Disability and the Need for Accessibility

This post is the first in a three-part series adapted from a workshop given by ODL course developer Clarissa Anderson at the 2022 OU Online conference. In this…

Working S.M.A.R.T.er not harder with ODL

There are a vast number of resources and tech tools now to support learning, but what about the learning environment itself? Student-centered learning doesn’t subscribe to a cookie-cutter…

Making Space for Meaningful Learning

In developing ways to integrate more student choice and meaningful learning into education, ATE speakers Shayna Pond, Laura Halstied, and Ryan Rahhal brought up student interest as one…

Promoting Skill Certificates to 100 Undergrads

I’m attempting a new strategy in my Introduction to Advertising course. This semester, any student who competes eight hours on LinkedIn Learning will be able to “power up” their Final Exam to an automatic 100. So how did this come about? Students are eager to learn hard skills. Students often bring up in end of […]

Integrating a business simulation game into an online course

I’m continuing a last minute blog de force by continuing to document some odds and ends of 2020 that haven’t hit the dot com quite yet. This one harkens back to June, which might as well been a decade ago at this point. For the past two years I’ve taught in Arezzo, Italy during the […]

The Remote Instruction Car Chase

It’s hard to believe but it’s already been a month since I published a blog post about OU’s Teach Anywhere site going live. I’ve said this in a half a dozen Zoom meetings, but the past five weeks have been like a high speed car chase. From the perspective of leading the Office of Digital […]