How can I Develop my Online Teaching Competencies?
Having worked your way through the course, we hope that you feel more prepared to take on the challenge of online teaching. Here, we would like to take a moment to remind you of ways to develop your online teaching competencies through any or all of the following initiatives or supports.
University of Lethbridge Teaching Centre resources and supports for ULeth Faculty
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- Resources and events:
- Read full version of FitFOL resource
- Learn more about OERs (Open Education Resources)
- Attend Shoptalks
- Contribute to Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Light on Teaching (Publication)
- Spark Teaching Symposium
- Talk about Teaching
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- Programs and Supports:
- Request teaching observations, individual consultations, and feedback
- Arrange for Faculty or Departmental consultations
- Become a Board of Governor’s Teaching Chair or a Teaching Fellow
- Get involved in our Mentorship Program
- Engage in the Graduate Teaching Assistant Professional Development Program (GTAPD)
- Participate in the Doors Open teaching program
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- Tech support
- Learn more about Moodle in our Moodle tutorial here or in Moodle Answers
- Seek Moodle assistance
- Zoom tutorial
- Online content delivery
- Youtube
- Sway
- PowerPoint
- and more
- More questions?
- Teaching Centre’s FAQ
- Tech support
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You may also develop your online teaching competencies through resources beyond the Teaching Centre:
- Review the sources we used to create FitFOL Bootcamp in our Bibliography
- Learn more about Pressbooks
- Read Chapter 9 in Darby, F., & Lang, J. M. (2019). Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. ‘Developing as an Online Instructor’
- Build and maintain Communities of Practice with your U of L peers or globally
- Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Canada)
https://sotlcanada.stlhe.ca/ - International Society of Teaching and Learning
http://www.issotl.com/issotl15/
- Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Canada)
- Join community of open educators
- Local — University of Lethbridge OER Champions
- Provincial — Open Education Alberta
- National — Canada OER Group
- Global -Commonwealth of Learning OER group
