Webinars & Classes | Office of Instruction & Assessment

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.

Building Your D2L Course Site (BYOD2L)

December 14 – 19, 2020 Register and January 4-8, 2021 Register

Whatever your teaching modality, a course site is fundamental for equity, inclusion, flexibility, and staying connected with students. All courses should have a D2L Brightspace course site.

This is a one-week, mostly asynchronous online workshop designed to help you plan and build D2L Brightspace course sites for Winter and Spring terms. The course offers guidance, resources, a structured work schedule, and peer support to plan and build an online course site in D2L.

More information

January Mini-Course Offerings

When you click on Register you will be redirected to the UA credentialing system, Edge Learning . This should automatically register you for the session that you have chosen. If you have questions on this system or get an error message please contact Garry Forger .

Course-Level Assessment January 4-8, 2021

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. Register

Effective Online Discussions January 4-8, 2021

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. Register

Teaching a Large Online Course January 4-8, 2021

This five-day online mini-course introduces instructional strategies and techniques for teaching large fully online courses. Register

Webinars

More webinar offerings coming soon.

Recorded Webinars

Webinar Recordings

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.

Mini-Courses

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. This should automatically register you for the session that you have chosen. If you have questions on this system or get an error message please contact Garry Forger.

2021 Mini-Course Schedule

Dates	Mini-Courses
January 2021	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.
January 4-8, 2021	When you click on Register you will be redirected to the UA credentialing system, EDGE Learning. This should automatically register you for the session that you have chosen. If you have questions on this system or get an error message please contact Garry Forger. 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. Register
January 4-8, 2021	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. Register
January 4-8, 2021	Teaching a Large Online Course This five-day online mini-course introduces instructional strategies and techniques for teaching large fully online courses. Register
January 4-8, 2021	Building Your D2L Course Site (BYOD2L) Registration coming soon 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.
February 2021	Building Communities in Online Courses Participants in this fully online five-day mini-course will conceptualize community in online environments while exploring tools, techniques, and activities that support student-to-student and student-to-instructor connectedness.
March 2021	Introduction to Teaching Online In this 14-day online mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses. Registration will be capped at 40 participants.
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.
July 2021	Collaborative Learning In this two-week, hybrid mini-course, participants will learn about, plan, and practice using evidence-based, active and collaborative learning strategies for teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.
July 2021	Introduction to Teaching Online In this 14-day online mini-course, participants will experience being a student in an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses.
July 2021	Effective Online Discussions This five-day mini-course introduces strategies for designing and facilitating effective online discussions that expand student exposure to curriculum, deepen learning, and increase student engagement.
July 2021	Teaching a Large Online Course This five-day online mini-course introduces instructional strategies and techniques for teaching large fully online courses.
July 2021	Building Communities in Online Courses Participants in this 1-week, fully online mini-course will discover the impact that instructor presence, collaboration, personalized learning and social networking can have on the development of community in your online and hybrid courses. Participants can expect to spend 1-2 hours per day exploring content and participating in activities.
July 2021	Interactive Videos with PlayPosit This course uses a scenario-based approach to introduce pedagogical best practices for using interactive videos in online education. Participants explore the uses of interactive videos in promoting deeper thinking, assessing student learning, and sharing feedback. Participants will practice creating interactive videos or "bulbs" using PlayPosit, and later share their work for peer review and feedback. The course duration is one-week long and contains four (modules). Each module follows a similar format: starting with a scenario description, then moving to best practices and PlayPosit "how tos", and finally end with an exercise creating bulbs. The time commitments for the course is approximately 8-10 hours per week.
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. 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.
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.
August 2021	Intentional Learning Relationships, Pandemic Edition This two-week, fully online mini-course introduces strategies for intentionally building and strengthening instructor-student relationships. We will focus on the online and hybrid learning contexts of the COVID-19 pandemic and explore several factors that impact building effective learning relationships at this time. Drawing from a cultural humility perspective, the course integrates contributions from culturally responsive teaching, intercultural teaching competence, trauma-informed pedagogy, and anti-racist work. The course will focus on both foundational reflections and active application to participants’ course materials. Your expected time investment is 1 to 2 hours per day during the regular work week. This course includes four optional live discussions on Zoom, each Tuesday and Thursday 3:00 to 3:45 pm.
TBD	Introduction to Teaching Online In this 14-day online mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses.
TBD	Reimagining Online Lectures This five day online mini-course will invite participants to reconsider the construct of “lecture” as it relates to online teaching and learning. Participants will explore ways that online content might be created and delivered.
TBD	Designing Effective Writing Assignments and Rubrics This mini-course includes a face-to-face session, TBD. Participants in this 5-day mini-course will learn strategies to design (or redesign) a writing assignment for maximizing student engagement and success. This mini-course is paired with a face-to-face workshop focusing on developing a fair, effective, and efficient rubric for your assignment.

Mini-Primers

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.