Yellowdig Faculty Guide

The Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) presents Yellowdig, an online discussion board.

Why Personalized Adaptive Learning?

Research has demonstrated the potential of adaptive learning to reduce dropout rates, improve learning outcomes, and expedite students’ learning journal to achieve their educational goals faster (Imhof, Bergamin, & McGarrity, 2020), especially when it is combined with a complete course redesign (Brown, et al., 2020). At the University of Central Florida, personalized adaptive learning (PAL) …

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PAL5000

PAL5000 is a faculty training course focusing on teaching with adaptive learning technologies using existing courseware. Based on the selected platform, instructors work with PAL instructional designers and relevant vendor support to complete the course activities. Course Objectives Register for PAL5000 If you are interested in adopting adaptive technologies in your teaching, please contact the …

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Faculty Spotlight – Kersten Schroeder

Kersten Schroeder. Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences at UCF. Dr. Schroeder teaches Microbial Metabolism, Medical Biochemistry, Molecular Biology I, Quantitative Biological Methods, and Methods in Biotechnology. He has developed personal adaptive learning protocols using Acrobatiq in Microbial Metabolism and Quantitative Biological Methods. Recently, he published articles …

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Open Educational Resources and Practices

The Center for Distributed Learning has a dedicated team of instructional designers who specialize in supporting faculty interested in Open Education.   This team empowers faculty to  Learn more through a short course adapted by our team, just for you. Introduction to Open Education Open Educational Resources (OER) Tools for Open Content Creation Use the following tools to kickstart your content authoring experience. (Note: Click on the image/s below …

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Panopto Essentials

Panopto Essentials is training for faculty credentialed to teach online who would like to incorporate some asynchronous content delivery using the online delivery platform, Panopto.