Now that everyone is musing about how their courses might work online, we are sharing a few resources that might be helpful.
- A very basic intro to moving your face to face (F2F) class design to an online course design:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tips-quickly-converting-f2f-class-online-format-chitra-rangan - More detailed tips including how to use Blackboard tools: http://www1.uwindsor.ca/openlearning/73/planning-for-teaching-during-disruption
- Get some serious help from the pros in a quick course:
https://ctl2.uwindsor.ca/openlearning/workshops/23/ - Planning assessments: https://blogs.iu.edu/citl/2020/03/13/exams-online/#.XqCrn5p7nfa
- Bonnie Stewart’s OPEN page with reviews on a variety of free tools. Really helpful if you like using ed-tech: http://www.uwindsor.ca/education/openpage
- Getting student feedback. This can be used for a quick midterm feedback (highlights, lowlights, things to fix), or a more detailed feedback. These are also valuable pieces of evidence to include in your teaching dossier during the PTR process. http://ctl.uwindsor.ca/ctl/505/gathering-feedback-teaching
- I have not much to say about labs. There are some software resources with simulations such as https://www.labster.com/ and https://phet.colorado.edu/ . I do not think using these will achieve the learning outcomes of my second year course with lab. Plus, developing online versions of a lab is almost as much work as developing a new course (IMO). This is a tricky issue that needs discussion.