Take your course on a refreshing journey from Yawn to Aha!

Concurrent Session 6

Session Materials

Brief Abstract

Wondering where to start when it comes to refreshing your course? Come on a journey with us as we explore effective strategies and engaging ideas for rejuvenating your course. Leave with a virtual backpack of inclusive resources that give all students equal opportunities to succeed and improve your course quality.

Presenters

Lead Presenter: Cherie Dodd, Indiana University Kokomo

Cherie has worked at Indiana University Kokomo since 2000 as the Sr. Instructional Strategies Specialist in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment . As an instructional designer and technologist she primarily consults with resident and adjunct faculty on course design, effective use of instructional technologies, active learning techniques, the Etext Initiative, Collaboration Technologies, and Next Generation Technologies. She works closely with faculty on the design and creation of quality online and hybrid courses and facilitates the Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) workshops and the Online Learning Strategies courses on the Kokomo campus. In addition she facilitates New Adjunct and New Faculty Orientations and Learning Communities. She also teaches online as an adjunct professor for the School of Sciences.

Co-presenter: Julia Sanders, Purdue University (Virtual Presenter)

I am the Senior Managing Director for Professional, Continuing, and Online Education for the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts. As a Purdue Online administrative lead, I partner with the College's academic leads as well as the functional leaders of Learning Technologies, Program Management, Student Services, and Online Corporate Partnerships. I currently teach online for University College's First-Year Experience at IUPUI.

Additional Authors

Julia Sanders, Purdue University

I am the Senior Managing Director for Professional, Continuing, and Online Education for the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts. As a Purdue Online administrative lead, I partner with the College's academic leads as well as the functional leaders of Learning Technologies, Program Management, Student Services, and Online Corporate Partnerships. I currently teach online for University College's First-Year Experience at IUPUI.

Extended Abstract

Wondering where to start when it comes to refreshing your course? Come on a journey with us as we explore effective strategies and engaging ideas for rejuvenating your course. Leave with a virtual backpack of inclusive resources that give all students equal opportunities to succeed and improve your course quality. 

We will discuss strategies and the benefits that you will gain by refreshing your courses. Come and learn how to implement small impactful changes identified by the insight gained from reviewing your course through the lens of experience. 

In this session, we will guide you through a workflow template (handout) to make informed decisions on transforming your course into an effective, dynamic eLearning experience. Participants will be asked to respond and share resources during this session.

We will help you:

  • investigate how to remove barriers to student success

  • infuse clarity

  • better position students to navigate the course

  • successfully achieve the course learning outcomes 

  • break your course refreshment into achievable, incremental action items

  • triage elements for course refreshments. 

A course that is intuitive to navigate and aligned allows students to focus their time on learning. Hindsight is 20/20. Let’s maximize this adage to remove roadblocks and ensure students complete the journey successfully and are not lost along the way.