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Guest Speakers

From Delaware County Community College, Division of Innovation, Teaching & Digital Learning Excellence

• Alexandra Salas, Ph.D., Dean
• Tina Payne, Education Technology Support Specialist

Online ER: Transition Triage

Data Collection & Outreach [8:40]

• What needed to be moved online and when?
• Needed to assess instructor skills.
• Needed to assess tools and technologies already in place.
• Using the data and resources provided a plan to move forward. Coordinated among the departments.
• Data from Canvas to indicate which instructors needed help with what courses.

Faculty Training [11:00]

• Quick Start Sessions – Give them exactly what the need at the moment to get them going. How to add syllabus, how to publish the class, started at the basics.
• Continuous polling and asking what else they needed. 
• Second week added “Open Lab” sessions through video conference to provide face-to-face. How to use Zoom, how to upload materials, etc. Recorded these sessions to share asynchronously, too. 
• Trainings based on what the faculty needed to know. Different types of trainings. [17:00] Chunking of the content so they could pick exactly what they needed at that time.
  • Quick Start
  • Canvas How To
  • Managing and Creating Content
  • Live and Recorded Lectures
  • Open Labs
  • Panel Discussions
• Used an instructional design approach. How do you teach your class? How can we use remote tools to do that? 
• Created an explainer video to explain what Remote Learning is. Shared what is synchronous, hybrid, online through this engaging video to continue to educate and inform.

Student Training [23:40]

• Created a resource for students that worked through the life cycle of the student through the lens of the LMS. 
• Repurposed and repackaged so that it is also available to students. 
• The Start To Finish Resource (Student Resource Guide) to share information from applying to the college, preparing for the semester, all the way through to student life. (Built in Canvas)
• Goal: Clarity and Uniformity and instructors can import it into their courses if they need it. 

Ongoing Support [28:30]

• How to help constituents use their toolkits
• Be flexible to meet their needs.
• One resource area listing all of the Quick Start Faculty Resources to save time.
• The faculty likes to hear from the support staff rather than have to go find things. Prefer a curated list of resources.
• People enjoy the videos more than the documents.
• Used the tools to create the teaching and learning supports to model for faculty how to use them.

• Delaware County Community College