Distance/Online Strategies

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Distance education, including online and hybrid/blended, often utilizes different strategies than traditional face-to-face education.  The distance classroom may also use transformed strategies from face-to-face, while also leveraging options & items specific to distance.

Featured resources:

* A Few Engagement Strategies at the Start of the Semester – A list of a few strategies that can help engage students and spark interest at the start of the semester.

* Blended Learning Toolkit – From the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the toolkit is a substantial resource intended to help instructors create engaging and effective hybrid/blended courses.

* Online Course Quality Rubric – This checklist will help instructors ensure their class meets online quality standards.

Hybrid Teaching Tips

Are you teaching a hybrid course this semester? Check out our list of featured resources to help you plan, design, and deliver your course in a meaningful and engaging way for both you and your students!

Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR)

Our online course quality rubric has been updated to include additional information on regular and substantive interaction. Check out the update standards and related resources.

Online Course Quality Rubric

The OSCQR Course Design Review Scorecard is a course-level quality rubric for reviewing and improving the instructional design and accessibility of online courses based on online best practices.

Online Discussion and Rubric Tips

The University of Illinois Springfield has created a short article with resources relating to online discussion boards and rubrics.

Providing Effective Online Feedback

Effective feedback is important to help students succeed, but critical in an online classroom where there is no physical instructor presence.