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      We are here to help ensure your success teaching online. We recognize the importance of providing our faculty with essential training and resources. Teach Online contains the latest information on course design, professional development, and educational resources for UCF faculty who teach online or supplement face-to-face courses with online instruction. Let us keep you current on the latest advancements in teaching online, some of which are happening right here at UCF.
      
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    - Enhance Your Online Course
      Enhancing your course with learning objects and activities will help to communicate course content beyond static readings and lectures. Discover the most suitable tools and enhancements for your course objectives.
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    - Create Your Online Course
      Here you will find resources to guide the creation of a Webcourses@UCF course sections from start to finish.
  - Effective Online Teaching Strategies
    - Effective Teaching Online Strategies
      Successful online courses start with effective planning for overall design and outcomes. Here you will find resources about course design, course delivery, and best practices for using technology.
    - Design Your Online Course – Best practices for online course design
    - Copyright – Learn about copyright & fair use
    - Media Message Design Tutorial – Evaluate your existing instructional materials
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  - Online Accessibility
    - Online Accessibility
      Here you will find information and guides about creating and using accessible content for your Webcourses@UCF course section(s). Adhering to accessibility standards will not only benefit students with disabilities but will help assure that all of your students will be able to access and use your online content.
    - - Accessibility Resources for Instructors – Creating Inclusive Courses: Essential Accessibility Tips
      - Proactive Captioning for Online Courses – Request captions for your online (W) course in advance.
    - - Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool (UDOIT) – Evaluate your course for accessibility issues & improvements
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    - Professional Development
      Take your skills to the next level by completing any of our professional development courses. Learn the Essentials of Webcourses@UCF at your own pace, or enroll in our award winning IDL6543 course. Want more out of Teaching Online? Keep current with Faculty Seminars geared to making your Webcourses@UCF course a Chuck Dzuiban Award winner.
  - Resources for Teaching Online
    - Additional Resources
      Here you will find many of the best practices compiled by the Center for Distributed Learning to help you link into new ideas about teaching online. The resources represent a compilation of those activities and techniques to help instructors plan their online and mixed mode courses.
  - Personalized Adaptive Learning
    - Personalized Adaptive Learning
      Personalized adaptive learning is a software that provides each student with an individualized learning experience by allowing them to progress along their unique learning path through the course content based on their knowledge, skills, and learning needs.
  - Recognizing Exemplary Teaching
    - The Chuck D. Dziuban Award for Excellence in Online Teaching
      - 2023 Dziuban Award Recipient – Stacey DiLiberto, PH.D.
        2022 Dziuban Award Recipient – Michael G. Strawser, Ph.D.
        2021 Dziuban Award Recipient – Ashley Taylor, M.F.A.
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    - The Barbara Truman Award for Excellence in Blended Teaching
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      Experiencing a technical issue with Webcourses@UCF? We’re here to support our faculty, staff, and students with any technical errors, concerns, or questions with all online components supported by CDL. Whether it’s Webcourses@UCF, Panopto, Materia, or Obojobo, we got you covered.
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      UCF recognizes that completing a college degree in a traditional classroom environment doesn't work for everyone. If you are looking for flexibility and convenience, taking fully online and blended classes means you can work toward a degree from practically anywhere. We are here to help you overcome the challenges you may encounter along the way so you can focus on your education.
      
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    - Faculty Support for Teaching Online
      We recognize the importance of providing our faculty with essential training and resources for teaching online. Teach Online contains the latest information on course design, professional development, and educational resources for faculty. Let us keep you in the know and up to date on the latest advancements in teaching online.
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    - Welcome to The Faculty Multimedia Center
      The Faculty Multimedia Center (FMC) is a do-it-yourself media production facility located in Classroom Building 1 – Room 202 for the use of UCF faculty, staff, and graduate teaching assistants. The FMC provides various technologies and services to help you create media content for your class or office. The goal of our facility is to make your experience easy and fun, while also providing an opportunity to practice with technology you may find in the classroom, or explore new ones that can enhance your recordings and media content creations.
      
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- What Can CDL Do for You?
  You know your subject matter, and we know how to help you deliver it online. Explore CDL Services and see how CDL can help you design, enhance, & deliver your next online course. Let us take your course to the next level!
- Instructional Support Services – Take your skills to the next level
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Our Initiatives
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- - Learning Systems and Integrations
    - - Engage and Inspire Your Students with a growing library of games, applications, study tools, & learning aids. Materia is designed to help you diversify your students' online learning experience.
      - Obojobo is UCF’s new online tool that provides a multifaceted interface capable of building, containing and utilizing instructional components.
    - - ProctorHub is a Webcourses@UCF integration that assists faculty members with quiz and exam authentication while helping to curb cheating.
      - The Universal Design Online content Inspection Tool (UDOIT) enables faculty to identify accessibility issues in Webcourses@UCF.
    - Explore All Webcourses@UCF Integrations
  - Open Resource Communities
    - Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository
      The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies.
    - Teaching Online Preparation Toolkit
      The Teaching Online Preparation Toolkit (TOPkit) website is a comprehensive resource that provides the postsecondary community with the essential elements required to ensure a very high quality online faculty development program, including a sample course that may be imported into any learning management system and then customized.
    - Blended Learning Toolkit
      This Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding their blended learning initiatives.
  - Podcasts
    - - The Teaching Online Podcast (TOPcast), hosted by Dr. Thomas Cavanagh and Dr. Kelvin Thompson, is a monthly podcast for online and blended learning professionals conducted over a shared cup of coffee.
      - Episode 175: “Let’s Stay Focused On What We Can Control” in Online EdDecember 2, 2024
        Episode 174: Get “All [Phil]’d Up” On LMS/Online Enrollment InsightsNovember 18, 2024
        Episode 173: Campus-Based Student Demand for Online Options (and More!) from CHLOE 9November 4, 2024
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    - - These stand-alone seminars are offered periodically for collegial dialogue around best practices in online teaching. They are co-presented by the Center for Distributed Learning and members of the UCF teaching faculty.
      - Active Learning Across Modalities: Techniques for Fostering Active Learning in Online CoursesMarch 1, 2019
        Strategies to Facilitate a Cross-Cultural and Inclusive Online EnvironmentSeptember 11, 2018
        Leveraging OER: Creating an Affordable and Customized Student Learning ExperienceJune 19, 2018
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About Us
- About the Center for Distributed Learning
  The Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) serves as the central agent for online learning at UCF, providing leadership in distance learning policies, strategies, and practices. Our teams consist of motivated developers, creators, and dreamers dedicated to exploring new technology to enhance teaching and learning at UCF.
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