The U of I Online Office, as well as various UI campus units,
offer support and training to faculty members who want to develop fully online
and blended traditional/online courses. However, the MVCR courses outlined below are open to anyone interested in online teaching and learning.
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U of I
Online Programs and Resources
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Making the Virtual Classroom a Reality
- a series of online training courses for any faculty member worldwide that want to acquire the pedagogical and technical skills needed to successfully build and teach their own blended or fully online courses. The courses are available for free to UI faculty, and for a nominal fee to staff and academic professionals. Anyone outside the UI system may enroll for a fee.
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Online Teaching and Learning Resources |
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Student and Faculty Perceptions of the Quality of Online Learning Experiences |
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Re-Examining and Repositioning Higher Education: Twenty Economic and Demographic Factors Driving Online and Blended Program Enrollments |
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The Road to Retention: A Closer Look at Institutions That Achieve High Course Completion Rates |
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Key Elements of Building Online Community: Comparing Faculty and Student Perceptions |
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Incorporating Interaction into Your Distance Learning Course |
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UIC Campus Support Units
The resources below are for faculty employed by the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. |
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Online Program Planning & Course Development:
External Education - Housed in Academic Affairs, External Education is the lead online support unit at UIC. Ex Ed assists with planning the development of online programs, including budgeting, instructional design for both online and blended courses, and marketing support.
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Technical Support:
Instructional Technology Lab - free consulting, training, and access to special hardware (e.g. recording equipment) and software for UIC faculty; run by the Academic Computing and Communications Center (ACCC).
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Curriculum Support:
External Education has an in-house Instructional Designer and Master Online Teacher who can assist faculty members with course redesign for both online and blended courses.
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Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), composed of faculty members who have been recognized for their demonstrated teaching excellence, provides a mechanism by which faculty, staff, and administrators can work collaboratively toward the improvement of instruction and the advancement of learning in UIC's culturally pluralistic community.
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The Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) strives to enrich the learning experience at UIC by supporting the teaching efforts of faculty and teaching assistants through its various services, including Instructional Design Support, Teaching Assessment Services, and College Teaching Preparation Program for TAs.
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UIC Fee-Based Support Units
Center for the Advancement of Distance Education (CADE) - part of the UIC School of Public Health, CADE collaborates with projects on and off-campus to develop online solutions to a variety of educational and business applications. This includes Web-based programming and database connectivity (e.g., active server pages, online surveys, etc.), live broadcasts of events, graphic design, animation and more. CADE will assist UIC faculty/staff in developing proposals and budgets that include these types of activities.
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Engineering Media Services – Housed within the College of Engineering, the Engineering Media Services can help with a range of media solutions for course development, website development, and video services. Their range of services include video production, animated computer applications, webcasting, videoconferencing, satellite downlinks, and computer graphic design.
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UIS
Programs and Resources
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Center for Online Learning, Research and Service (COLRS) - is the UIS hub for the study and application of online learning pedagogy, technology and best practices.
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Center for Teaching
and Learning (CTL) - the CTL serves both faculty and students
at UIS. The Center supports activities that help faculty to enhance
their roles as teachers, advisers, and scholars through its programs
and workshops in writing across the curriculum, using technology
to improve classroom teaching, and incorporating diversity into
the curriculum. |
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Information Technology Services (ITS) - ITS advances the mission of UIS by ensuring reliable core systems and network infrastructure, excellent technology support, and assisting technology integration into the curriuculum and business processes. |
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UIUC
Programs and Resources
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Online Teaching and Learning – provides faculty, instructors, students, and others a collaborative online space with tools for managing and delivering course assignments, publishing grades, and making course material available to students outside of classroom walls.
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Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts and Sciences (ATLAS) – provides information technology services that support and enhance the educational, research and administrative activities of students, faculty and staff in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
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Information Technology and Communication Services (ITCS) – provides a variety of Web site, programming, and multimedia development, along with computer labs and support services for the College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences. |
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The Faculty
and Staff Technology Training Team (FAST3) - formed in 1996,
FAST3 is a consortium dedicated to providing state-of-the-art training
on computers, software, and related technology for the faculty and
staff on the Urbana campus.
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Division of Rehabilitation-Education
Services - provides information and consulting on the accessibility
of online educational materials for persons with disabilities.
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Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) - promotes, enhances and assesses teaching effectiveness and student learning.
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