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We will update this page with new communications throughout the semester.

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Past Updates

JUNE 25, 2020

Envisioning Your Fall Courses

It can be a challenge to picture what fall courses will look like given the need to prepare for in-person, mixed delivery and fully online formats. With this in mind, we have put together an example of what your course might look like in Blackboard after you take advantage of Fall Course Transition Services.

You can complete the brief Fall Course Development Form to get started if you haven’t already. Investing time now will lead to better results during the semester.

The faculty support team (help@syr.edu) is available to answer questions related to your fall semester planning. Please also take advantage of these online coaching and consultation opportunities: 

We look forward to working with you.

JUNE 23, 2020

Fall Course Preparation

We strongly encourage all faculty teaching this fall to utilize the University’s suite of Fall Course Transition Services. Regardless of the type of course you are teaching, your course will need to run in face-to-face, mixed delivery and full online formats. Complete the brief Fall Course Development Form to get started.

The faculty support team (help@syr.edu) is available to answer questions related to your fall semester planning. Please also take advantage of these online coaching and consultation opportunities: 

We look forward to working with you.

JUNE 18, 2020

Approaches to Course Design

The fall semester presents the opportunity to rethink your approach to instruction—both in person and online. As you prepare your courses, please consider how hybrid, hy-flex and flipped approaches to course design could strengthen your teaching and students’ learning.

Hybrid course design moves students through the course together. They are all online at the same time and all face-to-face at the same time. The course meets at a pre-established time throughout the semester. Students who are online attend sessions synchronously with those students who are in the classroom. Instructors might also ask students to participate in groups or teams for learning, incorporating online students into face-to-face interactive groups. 

In another version of hybrid course design, the class might meet one day in person and another day online. Sometimes hybrid courses have half the class meet in person while the other half engages in online activities.

Hy-flex course design involves teaching a course using face-to-face and online delivery methods at the same time. This flexible option allows students to determine whether to be in-person or online. Students cannot progress from beginning to end in the course without demonstrating that they have acquired skills and knowledge deemed essential to proceeding. Still, a student could proceed through the course while only engaging the instructor and their classmates asynchronously. With this in mind, instructors must have fully developed face-to-face and online course designs for both delivery methods. We have provided a sample 50-minute class session and a sample 75-minute class session using hy-flex course design.

In a flipped classroom, the instructor produces lecture content broken into 10-minute segments for students to preview online. The students view the content and complete activities or self-quizzes between each segment. Students then attend class in person, practicing the use of the skill or information presented in the pre-class lecture.

To help you navigate this evolving instructional landscape, the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence is excited to present Working Through and Toward Pedagogical Partnership in Remote Teaching and Learning, an online workshop with Alison Cook-Sather offered in three sessions from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 24; Thursday, June 25; and Tuesday, June 30. Cook-Sather is the Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education at Bryn Mawr College and Director of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. Over the course of the three sessions, you will move from theory to planning to practice with a focus on studio and lab experiences. 

Faculty Support and Consultation Opportunities

The faculty support team (help@syr.edu) is available to answer questions related to course design or any other component of your fall semester planning. Faculty seeking assistance with online course development are encouraged to fill out the Fall Course Development Form to request support or to submit questions about specific aspects of online instruction and preparation. We have created a Fall 2020 Course Checklist to guide your planning.

Please also remember the coaching and consultation opportunities available to you: 

We look forward to working with you. Go Orange!

JUNE 16, 2020

Kaltura Video Cloud for Education

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This is not the semester that anyone envisioned. We realize that everyone’s situation is slightly different in terms of family, resources and more. Even so, please remember that you are not alone—we are all in this together. We look forward to helping you make the best of a challenging situation.

March 12, 2020

To support the transition to online course delivery effective at the end of the academic day on Friday, March 13, we will continue to send regular communications to ensure you have the most up-to-date information related to online teaching and learning. If you haven’t already, please bookmark the Academic Continuity Resources toolkit available at at Syracuse.edu/coronavirus/academic-continuity.

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