As part of OIA’s mission to build capacity for excellent teaching on our campus, we offer a wide variety of workshops, webinars and facilitated online mini-courses to individuals who teach for the UA.
All of our professional development offerings incorporate Universal Design principles. Registration for these offerings includes space for participants to request any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate their full participation, such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text. Please use the Contact Us link to ask any other questions about the accessibility of our offerings.
Credentialing
The OIA offers credentials (certificates of completion) for our Mini-Courses and many of our workshops. EDGE Learning is the University system that is used to grant certificates. After logging in with your netID and password, you can view and print your certificates, search for professional development classes and certifications. If you have questions on this system please contact Garry Forger.
Preparing for Faculty Job Applications Series
This series of participatory workshops focuses on the academic job market and addresses topics such as writing teaching, research, and diversity statements; creating ePortfolios; managing your online presence; and preparing for interviews. The series will conclude with an application materials review where attendees can get feedback on materials drafted throughout the series.
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Designing Multimedia Assignments (online mini-course)

**Please note: This is an online mini-course with both synchronous and asynchronous components. To maximize learning and interactions with peers, please plan to participate in these different parts of the mini-course.**
When: Monday, March 8 - Friday, March 12, 2021
Where: Synchronous on Zoom: Monday, Tuesday, and Friday 2:00 - 2:45 PM (March 8, 9, and 12)
Asynchronous on D2L: Wednesday & Thursday (March 10 & 11)
Description: Participants in this five-day, fully-online hybrid mini-course will explore strategies for successfully designing, adapting and implementing multimedia assignments to maximize student engagement and success. By the end of the mini-course, participants will have crafted or revised their assignment sheet and grading criteria, identified and experimented with possible digital tools students might use for the assignment, and developed support mechanisms for students using technology.
For this mini-course, “multimedia assignment” means any assignment asking students to incorporate more than one method of communication (e.g., written text, speech or sound, photos, graphics, illustrations, etc.) Example multimedia assignments might be presentations, posters, websites, videos, social media campaigns, and so on.
Questions? Contact the facilitators:
Lindsay Hansen, Asst. Professor of Practice
Lauren Harvey, Writing Instruction Specialist
More webinar offerings coming soon.
These are recordings of live webinars that took place during the Spring 2020, Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 semesters. All recordings are of Zoom sessions.
The 2021 Mini-Course schedule below is subject to change, as we evaluate how best to meet instructors' needs for the Spring semester.
You can expect to spend about an hour a day on the content for these online mini-courses. Where indicated below, some include synchronous meetings, but most of the work for these will be at your own pace. Registration for Mini-Courses opens approximately three weeks prior to the start date.
Registration
When you click on Register you will be redirected to the UA credentialing system, Edge Learning, and taken to a page with information about the mini-course. To register, click on "Not Registered." If you have questions on this system or get an error message please contact Garry Forger.
Dates | Mini-Courses |
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February 22-26, 2021 |
Building Communities in Online Courses Registration is closed Participants in this 1-week, asynchronous, fully online mini-course will explore and discover the impact that instructor presence, collaboration, personalized learning and social networking can have on the development of community, connectedness, and learning in online courses. Participants can expect to spend 1-2 hours each day exploring content and participating in activities. This mini-course is offered in D2L. Facilitated by Phyllis Brodsky |
March 8-12, 2021 |
Designing Multimedia Assignments Register Participants in this five-day, hybrid mini-course will explore strategies for successfully designing, adapting and implementing multimedia assignments in their online courses to maximize student engagement and success. Participants will design a multimedia assignment and experiment with different multimedia tools. This mini-course is in Zoom and D2L (synchronous meetings March 8, 9 and 12 from 2:00 - 2:45 PM and asynchronous days March 10 and 11. Facilitated by Lindsay Hansen and Lauren Harvey. |
March 2021 |
Introduction to Teaching Online |
April 2021 | Reimagining Slides This five day online mini-course will invite participants to dust off those text heavy, bullet point laden lecture slides and reimagine the power and purpose of what is projected on a screen. This mini-course is offered in D2L. |
July 2021 |
Collaborative Learning |
July 2021 |
Introduction to Teaching Online |
July 2021 |
Effective Online Discussions |
July 2021 |
Teaching a Large Online Course |
July 2021 |
Building Communities in Online Courses |
July 2021 |
Interactive Videos with PlayPosit |
August 2021 |
Fine-Tuning Your Course as a Road Map for Learning NOTE: This mini-course will be offered as a webinar series this August. Please check back for the webinar schedule. |
August 2021 | Reimagining Slides This five day online mini-course will invite participants to dust off those text heavy, bullet point laden lecture slides and reimagine the power and purpose of what is projected on a screen. This mini-course is offered in D2L. |
August 2021 |
Intentional Learning Relationships, Pandemic Edition |
TBD |
Introduction to Teaching Online |
TBD |
Reimagining Online Lectures |
TBD |
Designing Effective Writing Assignments and Rubrics |
Dates | Mini-Courses |
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January 2022 |
Course-Level Assessment This five-day online mini-course introduces assessment strategies and techniques that can be implemented at the course level to measure student learning, course design, and teaching practices. |
January 2022 |
Effective Online Discussions This five-day online mini-course introduces strategies for designing and facilitating effective online discussions that expand student exposure to curriculum, deepen learning, and increase student engagement. |
January 2022 |
Teaching a Large Online Course This five-day online mini-course introduces instructional strategies and techniques for teaching large fully online courses. |
January 2022 |
Building Your D2L Course Site (BYOD2L) This is a one-week mostly asynchronous online workshop designed to help you plan and build D2L course sites. It offers guidance, resources, a structured work schedule, and peer support to plan and build an online course site in D2L that supports learning and teaching despite uncertain and shifting conditions. Whatever your teaching modality, a course site is fundamental for equity, inclusion, flexibility, and staying connected with students. All courses should have a D2L course site. |
January 2022 |
Getting Started with Flipped Learning This course introduces the flipped learning teaching strategy along with other best practices for facilitating your course (e.g., universal design for learning (UDL) and effective communication for virtual teaching teams). Mini-course participants will engage with interactive video lectures, contribute to discussion forums, and engage with short online readings.The course is one weeklong and contains four (4) modules. |
January 2022 |
Fine-Tuning Your Course as a Road Map for Learning This 5-day, fully online mini-course allows instructors to refine an existing course plan and syllabus. Using the methodology of backward design and the principle of alignment, participants will revise and peer-review the learning outcomes, assessment plan, and other aspects of their courses to create an effective “road map” for learning via the course syllabus. |
The OIA has also created several mini-primers, which are short introductions to various teaching and learning topics, and include links to additional resources. A list of our mini-primers is available on this Mini-Primers page.