Overview

U of L Teaching Centre

1. Preamble

Welcome to the primary resource for the 2020 FIT for Online bootcamp. This resource has been designed by the Teaching Support Staff at the University of Lethbridge Teaching Centre to address the need to support our instructors moving to a completely online delivery model as a response to the COVID-19 outbreak, but we hope the resource will have a longer lasting and wider appeal.

There are references throughout the resource to course material and to collaborative activities that are located within a securely-hosted University of Lethbridge specific course, but all other aspects of this resource are openly published under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike license.

2. Practical Steps to Teaching and Supporting your Students Online

Fit for Online Learning (FitFOL) is designed to support Higher Education professionals with little or no previous online teaching experience. We will explore theoretical frameworks behind online teaching to guide you in the redesign or creation of online course materials and activities. You will take practical steps towards teaching and supporting your students online. In addition to reflecting on your pedagogical preferences and preparing concrete elements for your own online courses, you can  connect with your peers to share expertise and resources.

3. One Resource – Two Versions

While this text was used to facilitate several rounds of academic online learning experiences for instructors that put our U of L faculty and instructors into student shoes over the duration of the year of 2020, it can be used outside of a course context as well.

There are two versions of this text to allow for different levels of engagement depending on personal interest and capacity.

This text is the light version, which presents you with the most essential information and some practical key considerations with regards to teaching online during a pandemic.

For a more academic approach to designing online teaching, you can access the comprehensive versions, which details theoretical frameworks, educational research in addition to the most essential elements.

This pictures compares the light with the Comprehensive streams showing that the former follows a single path that requires less time and works with synthesized resources while the latter simulates an academic course experience by offering choices for in-depth choices for every module.

 

 

FitFOL2020 is an OER

Note: You can download the book in several different formats by clicking on Download This Book on the top right of the cover page. Since this book comes with the open CC-BY-NC-SA license, you have the following five permissions for use, granted you don’t change the license type:

  1. Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
  2. Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
  3. Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
  4. Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
  5. Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
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Fit for Online Learning LIGHT Copyright © 2020 by U of L Teaching Centre: Jördis Weilandt, Erin Reid, Kristi Thomas, Brandy Old, and Jeff Meadows is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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