Written by Clare Hickie, Program Assistant, Student Engagement in the Leadership and Student Engagement office at the University of Calgary. Edited by: Gareth McVicar, Carllie Necker, Kelly Kay Spurlock, Clara Rofaeil …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …