The Office of Blended and Online Learning provides many opportunities for Molloy faculty to further develop their online course design skills. Our office offers consultations with instructional designers, workshops on various topics related to course design and delivery and professional development courses. Check your Molloy email for more information from our team. You can contact us to schedule a consultation or for more information at CourseDesign@molloy.edu.
BOL offers interactive workshops and webinars on a variety of topics to provide faculty with knowledge, skills, and confidence to teach online or hybrid. Topics include:
View the Faculty Professional Center's LibCal calendar for more information, specific dates, and registration for webinars.
VoiceThread offers a large selection of workshops direction from their site. Molloy faculty can access recordings of previous workshops and also slgn up to virtually attend upcoming workshops. Faculty should see this page on the VoiceThread site for more information.
Topic/Title |
Date |
Length |
|---|---|---|
| Ensuring Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) in your Online Course | 7/5/2023 | 10:00 |
| Advanced VoiceThread Training | 9/28/2022 | 57:46 |
| Faculty Panel: Showcasing Quality Matters Standards in Course Design | 6/8/2022 | 1:04:23 |
| Flexible Course Design for the New Normal | 10/15/21 | 22:47 |
| Proctorio Faculty Training session | 7/29/2020 | 51:36 |
| Making Videos Accessible with Captions and Transcripts | 7/22/2020 | 35:54 |
| VoiceThread training webinar | 6/10/2020 | 1:02:02 |
| Faculty Panel on Quality Course Design | 4/15/2020 | 1:57:57 |
Our office provides professional development courses designed to help faculty to design quality hybrid and online courses for their students. Ranging from one to two weeks, these courses are offered in the online asynchronous modality to maximize flexibility and convenience for the schedule expectations of our faculty. To register for any of our upcoming courses, please visit the BOL LibCal calendar.
ACE is a fully online, 1-week faculty development course focusing on best practices in developing accelerated courses. This course will cover setting course expectations, active learning strategies, aligned assessments, and ongoing resources.
ATLC is a fully online 2-week faculty development course focusing on continued best practices of hybrid and online teaching and learning. Advanced TLC continues where TLC ends. This online course is delivered in modules and through a sandbox (practice course) in Canvas. Be prepared to commit 12-14 hours per week to complete this course.
LfA is a fully online 1-week faculty development course based on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework for learning designed to improve and optimize teaching methods and provide equal access for all students by reducing barriers. The goal of this course is to provide an understanding of UDL and how it can be incorporated into the design of web-enhanced, hybrid and online courses. Be prepared to complete 12-14 hours of online work for this course.
We invite Division Council and faculty to participate in RCDQM, a 2-week online asynchronous course. Quality Matters (QM) is a continuous improvement model for assuring the quality of hybrid and online courses. This course includes an introduction to Quality Matters, a detailed review of the QM Standards, and guidance on how to apply the QM Rubric. You will receive an email invitation to the Canvas course before it begins. Be prepared to complete 12-14 hours of online work for this course.
TLC is a fully online, 2-week faculty development course focusing on best practices of hybrid and online teaching and learning. This intense course will cover the hybrid/online mindset shift, framing and designing a hybrid/online course, active learning strategies, aligned assessments, and ongoing resources. Be prepared to complete 12-14 hours of online work each week of the course.