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Fostoring Academic Integrity in Online Assessment

In our second session of Faculty Seminars in Online Learning on Wednesday, Sept. 17, you’ll explore how to foster academic integrity in online courses. Learn strategies to reduce cheating, leverage AI to support learning, and apply integrity tools effectively. This session offers practical insights to enhance assessment design and promote student success in today’s digital teaching environment.

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Faculty – Important Things for Your Fall 2025 Classes in Webcourses@UCF (Canvas)

Dear Faculty,  UCF and the Center for Distributed Learning are here to assist you and your students with Webcourses@UCF (Canvas), Zoom, and Panopto. Please review the following resources we have curated for faculty using these platforms, regardless of the course modality. Contact Webcourses@UCF Support if you have questions or need assistance.  Required Course Elements  Important! New Webcourses@UCF Updates  Webcourses@UCF Reminders  Campus Resources  …

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Critical Thinking and Authentic Learning in Online Assessment in an AI Age

Join the third session in our series on Thursday, Nov. 6, for an in-depth exploration of authentic assessment—a powerful approach to evaluating student learning in meaningful, real-world contexts. As online learning evolves, authentic assessment and the ethical integration of AI tools are becoming central to fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and personalized learning.

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Episode 187: The TOPcast “Core Audience” and Strategic Online Education

Hosts Kelvin and Tom speak about (and to) the “core audience” of online faculty, instructional designers, and administrative leaders, alongside many other roles, to unpack the podcast’s conceptualization of online education as centered on optimizing course design and teaching.

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New McGraw Hill Tool Coming This Summer

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 …

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Episode 182: When is “Good Teaching” Just “Good Teaching?”

Guest Dr. Thomas J. (Tom) Tobin joins hosts Tom and Kelvin for a slightly spicy conversation about the extent to which general teaching behaviors can be meaningfully separated from other factors such as course modality, student characteristics, institutional resources, and more.

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Episode 181: Help in Grasping “Good Online Course”

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.

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Episode 177: Creating the Digital Learning Future Our Students Deserve

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.

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