Virtual Workshop - How Can I Teach with Web Conferencing?
Thursday, March 23, 2017 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
 

Friday, April 7, 2017 | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
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Learn step-by-step guidelines for establishing an instructor presence in your online classes. Identify the things you want to share with your class and create a strategy for expressing your persona throughout the course. Participants will be asked to view a 20-minute video prior to attending an in-person discussion about ways to develop online instructor presence. Take advantage of this opportunity to network with other online instructors at DU and share your expertise with colleagues new to teaching online!

The Distance Learning Council (DLC) report provides
an overview of the current status of online/distance learning at the University of Denver. This multimedia report includes video clips from DLC panel presentations, info on national/local trends and results of a 2016 survey of DU faculty and administrators about online learning. The report also addresses ways online learning supports many of the tenets of DU IMPACT 2025. View the report 

The 28th Annual eLearning Consortium of Colorado Conference is April 12th-14th, 2017 at the Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, CO. This year's theme, which is Makers, Movers and Methods: Teaching for and Understanding Change, provides an opportunity to showcase the great ideas developed by you and your students to deal with and understand change.

View the preliminary schedule and register by March 23 to receive the early-bird registration discount. Reserve your hotel room by March 15th to receive the conference rate.

The Distance Learning Council has been exploring identity management solutions in order to comply with federal guidelines that require schools that offer online courses have a  system implemented to verify the identity of online students. We have set-up a pilot with Biometric Signature ID (BioSig-ID) for Spring term and we would appreciate your feedback. BioSig-ID is a biometric signature gesture technology for identity verification. It requires only a mouse, stylus or touchpad for students to create a unique 4 digit password for the purpose of authenticating student identity in online courses.

We've set up a sandbox course in Canvas to give you an opportunity to see how it works from the student perspective. Please let me know if you want to try it out and I'll add you to the Canvas sandbox course so you can get started. It should only take about 10 minutes to go through the course and get a feel for how it works.

If you are teaching an online course Spring term and would like to pilot BioSig-ID, please let me know right away!