Online Learning Faculty Resources
The Distance Learning faculty and staff at Cincinnati State are highly skilled and competent at distance learning, as well as in their fields of expertise—from computer technology, the humanities, and science to education, engineering technology, and much, much more.
The College provides many best practice resources to enable instructors to design, develop, and deliver high quality distance learning College courses. Instructors also take advantage of one-on-one faculty development opportunities, as well as hands-on technical training. In addition, the College offers a variety of online services, multimedia training, and conferences related to distance education.
What’s more, a team of Cincinnati State specialists in instructional design and development work closely with faculty and staff to ensure that the College’s online courses meet student and community needs and enhance the learning experience.
Office of Online Learning Newsletter Archives
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- September 7th, 2023 – OOL Resource Site Launch, Recording Room, LMS Review, Zoom tips, and more
- August 4th, 2023 – ACUE Best Practice, QM Best Practice, PD Opportunities, Blackboard 101, ACUE Effective Online Teaching Practices Cohort Enrollment, Spark PD Series
- May 4th, 2023 – Cincinnati State recognizes faculty members who earned the “Effective Online Teaching Practices” credential, Best Practice: Using Data and Feedback to Improve Online Teaching, Best Practice: Online/Hybrid Course Design Template
- March 9th, 2023 – Tips and Tricks: Blackboard Help, Best Practice: Active learning, Best Practice: Relationship between use of materials and completing learning activities is explained.
- April 6th, 2023 – Blackboard Ultra, ChaptGPT: Revisit Resources, Best Practice: Inclusive Teaching Toolkit, Best Practice: Principles for Using Visuals in Course Design
- January 19th, 2023 – Have you heard of ChatGPT?, Does your WEB/Hybrid/LIVW course met Title IV requirements? Integrate Visuals into Student Assignments
- January 5th, 2023 – Instructional Recording Studio in ATLC 412, Date Management, Exam Administrator Best Practices for Proctorio Use, Communicate with Students Prior to the Start of a Semester
- December 1st, 2022 – Instructional Resources (Date Management), Proctorio: Best Practices for Final Exams, Interested in participating in an Internal QM Review?
- November 3rd, 2022 – 4 Surprising Ways Video is Changing Education, Creating or Modifying Instructional Videos, Checking for Student Understanding in Online Learning
- October 20th, 2022 – Why Blackboard Ultra? Record Audio/Video Feedback in Blackboard, To Require the Webcam or Not, Active Learning Jigsaw Method
- October 6th, 2022 – Blackboard Original vs Ultra, Preparing Text Documents for Conversion to Blackboard Assessments, Zoom Support Links
- September 1st, 2022 – Provide Clear Rationale of Assignments via Video, Taking Attendance in a Zoom Room
- August 18th, 2022 – ACUE Best Practices: Starting on the right foot! How to Download your Zoom Recording and Upload it to YouTube
- August 4th, 2022 – Applying the QM Rubric Certification (APPQMR)
- July 14th, 2022 – Course Content Support
- June 9th, 2022 – What is on your summer to-do list? Have you heard of a Liquid Syllabus? Zoom Recording Tips
- May 5th, 2022 – Planning Effective Online Discussions
- April 21st, 2022 – Using Data and Feedback to Improve Online Teaching
- April 7th, 2022 – Provide Exemplars of Student Work
- March 17th, 2022 – Join a Professional Learning Community
- March 3rd, 2022 – Online Orientation Workshop, Normalize Academic Struggle
- February 3rd, 2022 – Offering Choices on Assignment Submissions, Online/Hybrid Course Design Template in Blackboard
- January 6th, 2022 – Ensure Students Start Strong
- November 4th, 2021 – Grade Center Report Tips
- October 21st, 2021 – Zoom Attendance Tips
- October 7th, 2021 – Meet the Office of Online Learning Team
Cincinnati State is a Quality Matters Institution
Cincinnati State is committed to implementing the Quality Matters standards for the design of [online and/or hybrid] courses, and is systematically building and evaluating our courses based on these rigorous, research-supported standards. The Quality Matters standards assure that the online components of these courses promote learner engagement and provide students with all the tools and information they need to be successful learners.
Quality Matters at Cincinnati State Videos
- Quality Matters Intro Video
- QM Standard 3 Review Session – Assessment and Measurement
- QM Standard 4 Review Session – Instructional Materials
- QM Standard 5 and 6 Review Session – Learner Interactions and Course Technology
- QM Standard 7 and 8 Review Session – Learner Support and Accessibility Usability
- QM Module 8 – Part 1 – Accessibility and Usability
- QM Module 8 – Part 2 – Text Documents
- QM Module 8 – Part 3 – Visual and Audio Media
Quality Matters at Cincinnati Slides
- QM Module 1 Overview Intro
- QM Module 2 Objectives
- QM Module 3 Assessment
- QM Module 4 Instruction Materials
- QM Module 5 Learner Activities Interactions
- QM Module 6 Course Technology
- QM Module 7 Learner Support
- QM Module 8 Accessibility Usability
- QM Module 8 – Part 1 – Accessibility and Usability
- QM Module 8 – Part 2 – Text Documents
- QM Module 8 – Part 3 – Visual and Audio Media
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New Distance Education Technologies & Software Information
Take a look at some free video capturing applications.
Faculty and staff looking for ways to enhance their presence and inject their personality into their online courses should definitely consider providing video content. There are a number of free video capturing applications available on the Internet for both the Windows and the Mac operating systems.
Social Media in Online Higher Education
Implementing Live Twitter Chat Discussion Sessions
Additional Distance Education Resources
Faculty Focus
An online publication with valuable information for faculty, academic deans, and department chairs. Publishes an e-newsletter three times per week, plus a dedicated website with news and best practices on the academic issues at the forefront of higher education today.
Quality Matters (QM)
A faculty-centered, peer review-based process that is designed to certify the quality of online courses and online components. QM rubrics are downloadable.
Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository
The University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature.