Teams Classes and Teams Meetings integrations with Webcourses@UCF (Canvas) have been deprecated by Microsoft and will stop working on June 15, 2025. To avoid a mid-semester disruption those integrations will be removed from Webcourses@UCF (Canvas) on Monday, May 5, 2025. Microsoft plans to release a single integration that merges the functionality of the deprecated integrations. Once …

McGraw Hill Connect will be retired at the end of the Spring semester. For the Summer semester, please transition to the new and improved McGraw Hill tool. This updated application offers a clearer organization, a smoother transfer of course content to Webcourses, and a streamlined grading process. If you have already updated your McGraw Hill integration, you can safely …

UCF’s Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness (RITE) in the Division of Digital Learning is conducting a study on faculty knowledge and the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to improve future support for faculty and students at UCF. This survey will take about 10-15 minutes to complete. Thank you for your feedback! >> Take the Survey <<>> https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8064tAYH6bOVppc << …

Hosts Kelvin and Tom discuss the challenge, still present after 30 years, of helping others (e.g., policymakers, potential students, etc.)  understand what a  “good online course” is without experiencing one themselves. They discuss why this still matters and what approaches might help.

In celebration of 30 years of OLC conferences and with input and reactions from our community of online/digital learning professionals, including a live audience(!), hosts Tom and Kelvin discuss the issues inherent in predicting and shaping a desirable future for online/digital education over the next 30 years.

Hosts Kelvin and Tom consider the centrality that online learners’ needs must have in shaping the work of online higher education. Particular attention is given to how responsibility for this common goal must be shared between individual faculty and institutional processes to assure quality at scale.