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Services from the Office of Instructional Resources

About the Plenary Session This plenary presentation about services offered by the Office of Instructional Resources (OIR) was facilitated by Don Merritt, Director of OIR, and Todd McMahon, Assistant Director of OIR. The presentation highlights some of the many services UCF faculty can take advantage through OIR, such as the use of Lightboards, Camtasia Studio, the …

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Creating Accessible Online Content

In this presentation of Creating Accessible Online Content, Jacob Bates, Techranger Team Lead, and Jesse McBride, Techranger, discuss some of the best practices for designing accessible content. During the course of this presentation, Jacob and Jesse will also demonstrate CDL’s Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool (UDOIT) that enables faculty to identify accessibility issues in …

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Projecting Your Online Persona Via Video

Is your personality, humor, and care for student success lost in translation while teaching your online course? When you are not seen or heard, learners may have more difficulty connecting with you, which may hinder the overall experience. Integrating video can help develop your online persona by fostering your social presence in the online classroom. Video has the potential to enhance student satisfaction, engagement, and meaningful learning. By using video, you can model multimedia fluency skills, essential for learners’ employability and career advancement.

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Episode 29: Designing Better Blended Learning

About Episode 29: Blended learning is still around and going strong! Tom and Kelvin are joined by blended learning expert Dr. Norm Vaughan as they consider, from a faculty perspective, how to partner for better-designed blended learning. Download Transcript [PDF, RTF] Episode 29 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list of episode highlights …

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What’s Exciting Dr. Norm Vaughan About Blended Learning?

The following audio recording is raw footage of an interview Dr. Kelvin Thompson conducted with Dr. Norm Vaughan for TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast. An earlier interview is featured in TOPcast episode 29. (A phone buzz re-directs the flow of this follow-up conversation, but the dialogue is still rich with content and will be interesting …

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Student Engagement & Blended Learning – What’s the Connection?

Meet Dr. Norm Vaughan, an educator and researcher with interests in blended learning. In his 2016 presentation to CDL, Norm identified connections between student engagement and blended learning. The following learning outcomes are addressed in the recording below:Identify key factors of student engagement in higher educationDevelop a “shared” vision for blended (hybrid) learningExamine the roles …

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