Welcome

As we make choices in adapting our instruction to the online environment, creating a humanized experience is essential to learning, particularly during a time when our lives are disrupted and things are changing at a rapid pace. Humanizing our teaching and our students’ learning in times of disruption is critical. According to Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock, who helped coin the term 'humanizing online,' humanizing fosters instructor-student and student-student relationships and community by intentionally supporting the non-cognitive components of learning through presence, empathy, and awareness.

Learn more from Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock. Watch her webcast recording of "Humanizing Online Learning: Leveraging Relationships to Fuel Engagement and Rigor."

Let's Take This One Bite at a Time

Join Digital Learning and faculty experts as we explore literature, pedagogical practices, and tips and tricks that will prepare you to design an engaging online course with plenty of opportunities for engagement and community-building. We're continuing to add resources and materials (BITES) to kick start your course development.

DEFINING HUMANIZING

Learn More About the Literature.

SMALL BITES

Set Your Canvas Profile
Create a 'Start Here' Module
Create a 'Getting to Know You' Survey
Create a Canvas Dashboard Image for Your Course
Create a Welcome Video
Create a Homepage Banner for Your Course
Create a Mid-Course Assessment to Improve Teaching & Learning
Create a Meet 'N' Greet Discussion
Create Buttons for Your Course
Send a Welcome Message
Customize Your Canvas Course Navigation
Canvas Beginning of Semester Checklist
Increasing Online Course Evaluation Response Rates
Create an Inclusive Syllabus (New)
Create a Course Tour Video for Your Canvas Course (New)

MEDIUM BITES

LARGE BITES

Service Learning in Online Courses
Developing Alternative Assessments
Giving Your Students Choice
Using Learning Analytics to Improve Online Learning

Learn with Us!

Below are a list of courses offered by Digital Learning in the Division of Innovative and Learning-Centric Initiatives (ILCI). These courses are designed to inform you of future-focused strategies for designing and facilitating courses in our rapidly changing world. We hope you find the content of these courses meaningful and transformative in all modalities, not just online. For longer descriptions of the courses and information on how it fits into our Advancing Excellence in Online Teaching Badge, check out this ILCI Webpage.

STARTING A HUMANIZED COURSE FROM WEEK '0':
Course Design in Weeks 0 - 2

Next Offering TBD
6-week session
$300 stipend

This course explores strategies for creating a humanized course from before the semester begins.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT FOR STARTING A HUMANIZED COURSE FROM WEEK '0'

CONTINUING THE MOMENTUM TO THE END:
Course Design in Weeks 3 - End

Coming May 2024
6-week session
$300 stipend

This course explores strategies for humanizing online courses in weeks 3 through the end.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT FOR CONTINUING THE MOMENTUM

CREATING AN ENGAGING, EQUITABLE, AND INCLUSIVE ONLINE CLASS

Next Offering TBD
6-week session
$300 stipend

This course explores ways to design and facilitate engaging courses with diversity, equity, and inclusion at the forefront.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT FOR CREATING AN ENGAGING, EQUITABLE, AND INCLUSIVE ONLINE COURSE.

IMPROVING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF YOUR CANVAS COURSE

Next Offering TBD
6-week session
$300 stipend

This course focuses on how you can make changes in your course to improve accessibility in your Canvas course.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT FOR IMPROVING THE ACCESSIBILITY IN YOUR CANVAS COURSE

EMPOWERING FACULTY IN THE WORLD OF COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION

Next Offering TBD
6-week session
$300 stipend

This course focuses on what CBE is, strategies for writing competencies, and the tools to help you evaluate mastery.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT FOR THIS COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION COURSE.

FLEXIBILITY BY DESIGN: DESIGNING HYFLEX COURSES TO SUPPORT STUDENT LEARNING

Next Offering TBD
6-week session
$300 stipend

This course focuses on what HyFlex is, and strategies for successfully creating a HyFlex Course.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT FOR THIS FLEXIBILITY BY DESIGN - HYFLEX COURSE

Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty Mentor, Online Teaching and Learning with the California Community Colleges California Virtual Campus-Online Education Initiative (CVC-OEI) system, helped to coin the term 'humanizing online.' She is a noted leader in higher education with expertise in online teaching, course design, and faculty development. Michelle’s work has helped create the basis for the materials you see here. Learn more about Michelle at brocansky.com and connect with her on Twitter @brocansky.

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