Teaching Online

Download the latest edition of  "Delivering High-Quality Online Instruction in Response to COVID-19:  Faculty Playbook".  This playbook is a collaboration between the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and the Every Learner Everywhere Network with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is designed to serve as a concise guide in addressing faculty needs for online course design, teaching, and continuous improvement. 

Download the Chronicle of Higher Education's free collection of advice guides and opinion pieces on online learning. You'll get the insight and analysis needed to make the adjustment to teaching a full roster of courses online.

Download The Ten Fundamentals to Teaching Online for Faculty and Instructorsby Dr. Tony Bates, Research Associate, 37 pages, September 2016.

Download "Try This Instead of That" recommendations when transitioning to teaching remotely (California State University's 1 page quick reference)

FREE online mini-courses: Learn Teaching Online Basics

Here are two courses developed by higher ed for higher ed funded by federal grants. You can download the course files or take the course "in the cloud". 

1. Designing and Teaching Online course has six (6) easy-to-review modules to cover the basics created by Tyler Junior College.
2. Introduction to Distance Education course has five (5) easy-to-review modules created by the Kenai Peninsula College and the University of Alaska Anchorage. Includes FLASH videos so Internet Explorer browser works and Chrome browser might have problems.

VIRTUAL LABORATORY EXPO
The Online Learning Consortium and MERLOT would like to invite you to our OLC Ideate Labs for Online STEM: Innovating STEM Education 2020 on August 19-21, 2020. This free virtual expo will showcase a wide range of virtual and distance labs designed to support online STEM education - REGISTER HERE.

MERLOT Virtual Labs Portal   MERLOT has create a collection of free and open virtual labs across a variety of STEM disciplines that can be very effective in supporting online instruction for laboratory courses. 

Virtual Labs Teaching ePortfolios   The Virtual Labs portal also provides a collection of teaching ePortfolios by faculty implementing virtual labs and research on the effectiveness of using virtual labs. 

MERLOT non-STEM Collection of Simulations    MERLOT also has collections of simulations that can support laboratory-like experiences in non-STEM disciplines:

Arts | Business | Education | Humanities | Social Sciences | Workforce Development

MERLOT is your free and open library of free and open course content across all academic disciplines. In addition to its over 90,000 materials, it also simultaneously searches over 70 other free and open libraries as well as a dynamic, education-aligned searching of the web.

Southern University System and MERLOT have designed the SUS Affordable Learning Solutions Portal to make it easy to find free and open etextbooks, virtual labs, career and technical education resources, and more so you can reduce the cost of course materials and make college more affordable for your students.

SkillsCommons is your free and open library of free and open workforce development and training resources funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. It is a national repository of workforce OER that supported over 700 community colleges creating enhancements and innovations in their workforce curriculum that is now OER available to you.

Profesor Moustapha Diack
SUBR College of Sciences and Engineering

Dear Jaguar Family: COVID19 has affected each one of us in one way or another, and the many changes that have happened in our lives so far is a lesson on how to always be prepared. Let us continue with resilience and togetherness in supporting each other and make a difference in each other's lives as well as those of the students we serve. Providing our student with quality education that open doors to professional careers and jobs of the future matters to all of us.

I have compiled this playlist to better help us, as a community, face the many challenges as we prepare to deliver quality education to the students we serve. I strongly encourage you to review these pertinent resources as we engage and plan to deliver quality online instruction.

• Leading Groups Online: A down-and-dirty guide to leading online courses, meetings, trainings, and events during the coronavirus pandemic - I very strongly encourage you to download this free E-Book.  With this guide, you will be ready to successfully transition your face-to-face events for warmer online spaces.The journey to leading groups online can be a challenge — but it is made much easier with the excellent tips provided in this E-book.
• Planning for Resilience, Not Resistance
• Corona Virus Anxiety Workbook
• How to Responsibly Reopen Colleges in the Fall - Mitigating risks to communities in which colleges are located, students should be subject to certain rules.
• Low bandwidth teaching and learning: Shifting to remote teaching and learning brings with it a number of considerations and challenges. Think Accessibility, If learners are able to connect to free/institutional SU networks (e.g., from local libraries, or on-campus student work areas), they will likely be able to access a safe, reliable, and robust internet connection. However, if these learners are relying on home-based connections, these will likely have a slower speed connection, and their service may be shared with others in their house (for work, or education, or entertainment). Please read this resources for a number of considerations and challenges.
• Tips For Social Distancing, Quarantine, And Isolation During An Infectious Disease Outbreak
• Tips for Managing Stress and Worries
  The Jed Foundation offers tips to manage stress and worries.
• Managing Coronavirus Anxiety: 10 Tips from a Professional Psychologist
• Additional Resources from APA
  The American Psychological Association lists various resources for more information.
• 7 science-based strategies to cope with coronavirus anxiety
• Five Ways to View Coverage of the Coronavirus

FACULTY SHOWCASES THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM