How to get students to like your text-based content
Text-based content often gets a bad reputation as a learning activity, and students often complain when a course is heavily text-based. “Less text please” was a common comment we received …
How to use an outcomes-based approach to design an online orientation
Creating an online orientation program from scratch is a large and complex project. Where do you start, how do you get organized, and how do you make sure you’re not …
8 reasons why someone may not complete your online orientation
Online courses don’t have the best reputation when it comes to completion rates. In for-credit university and college courses, where the incentive to complete is gaining the course credit, online …
7 Benefits (and 3 Challenges) of Online Orientation
In 2020, many institutions introduced an online orientation program for health and safety reasons, as a response to COVID-19. While that was necessary while health restrictions kept us from gathering …
The 9 roles of an online educator
Creating an online orientation program is not a small undertaking. There are a lot of tasks to be done, a lot of decisions to be made, and a lot of …
How to choose an online system for your online orientation
One of the first decisions you’ll make when creating an online orientation program is choosing which platform you will use to host the program. For many people, this is a …
The essentials of digital accessibility
A version of this post was initially co-written with Joanna Lake for an EDCI 565 project I learned a ton about digital accessibility throughout the process of designing UVic’s Pre-Arrival …
An introduction to digital accessibility
Portions of this post were originally co-written by Joanna Lake as part of an EDCI 565 project Before you even start thinking about what type of content you want to …
Community of Inquiry Model
I never thought I would be the kind of person who liked a framework or theory. In fact, as much as I’ve tried to incorporate theory into my work, in …