eLearning at the CTL

CTL eLearning Specialists and eLearning Technology Specialists from WTS offer drop-in Q&A sessions. Have a question about teaching in the online or blended format? Join us by registering below:

Register for an upcoming eLearning Q&A Drop-in: Biweekly Tuesdays from 2:30pm-3:30pm

• July 5, 2022
• July 19, 2022

For questions and support in the interim, please contact elearning-support@uwo.ca

Book now! We continue to accept requests for Rapid Course Consultations and are generally booked for two weeks after you submit a request.

Have you taught or are currently teaching an online asynchronous or blended course? Do you heavily rely on your OWL site to help coordinate or communicate about your face-to-face course? And are you curious about how you might make smaller changes to your course for maximum learner impact?

Consider meeting with an Instructional Designer from the Centre for Teaching and Learning for a Rapid Course Consultation. Let us know one or two elements of your course that you’d like to talk about and, over the course of a one-hour meeting, we’ll help you create a plan for those areas in the current or next iteration of your course.

Learn more and request a Rapid Course Consultation here.

Online Course Design:

The Online Course Design section provides a series of resources that moves beyond using OWL tools to focus on key considerations, techniques, and approaches for online teaching and learning.

Six pathways for online course design are covered, including:

• How Online Learners Learn
• Designing to Meet Course Learning Outcomes
• Organizing Course Content
• Facilitating Online Learning
• Designing for Accessibility in Online Learning
• Choosing and Providing Access to Course Readings

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Open Instructional Skills Workshop Online:

Due to popular demand we have launched a compressed, self-guided version of our Instructional Skills Workshop Online called Open ISW-O.

Join the site and complete the lessons at your own pace. Lessons include Building Community, Building Lessons, and Putting Theory into Practice.

• Log into OWL using the course link: Open ISW-O-Joinable
• After login, click "Yes, please add me" to join the site

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ABC Online Course Design Workshop:

The ABC Online Course Design Workshop will help you with rapid online course development. This workshop is suitable for instructors looking to shift an in-person course to online. Leave the workshop with a course storyboard and plans for next steps.

There are two parts: Part 1: Pre-workshop Activities and Part 2: Independent Story Boarding

Faculty are invited to direct students to complete the 90-minute tutorial in OWL.

The tutorial is designed to increase students' understanding of the key principles of academic integrity and provide strategies to help students avoid academic offences in common scenarios. We suggest it be used in combination with discipline-specific academic integrity learning opportunities. Students who successfully complete this tutorial will earn a certificate.

To include the Academic Integrity Tutorial in your course, share this link to the Academic Integrity Tutorial OWL site with your students.

TA eLearning Series

The Asynchronous TA Training Modules were designed by the CTL specifically to equip new and experiences Teaching assistants with strategies for being effective TA in blended and online classrooms. All registered participants will gain access to 9 asynchronous modules, which cover a range of topics from grading to building community. Each module will take one hour to complete. Registrants will have one month to access and complete the modules that interest them.

Registering for the Asynchronous TA Training Modules allow Teaching Assistants access to the following modules to help prepare them for their role:

• Humanizing Your Virtual Classroom
• Grading Using OWL
• Facilitating Discussions Online
• Explaining Difficult Concepts in Science
• Fostering Respectful and Inclusive Online Environments
• Digital Classroom Management Strategies
• Preparing Students for Online Learning
• Accessible Online Learning
• Decolonizing Your Online Classroom

Learn more about the TA eLearning Series and how to register during the academic year (Sept.-Apr.) here.

Students who register for TA Day: Graduate Student Conference on Teaching will also gain access to 6 eLearning modules hosted in the TA Day OWL site:

• Inclusive Pedagogy: What TAs need to know
• Mental Health 101: Supporting student wellness
• Preparing to Grade
• Teaching Your Students to Write Better
• 10 Techniques to Explain Difficult Concepts in Science
• Time Management for TAs

Learn more about TA Day: Graduate Student Conference on Teaching here.

This site has recently been reorganized. If you are looking for the Instructor Tutorials, Student Tutorials, or Webinars that were previously available on this site, please see the following YouTube video playlists:

• OWL Video Tutorials
• Rapidly Moving a Course Online Sessions

• Virtual and online consultations with Instructional Teaching Resource Centre and Centre for Teaching and Learning staff are available for help moving a course online.
• The Helpdesk will answer specific questions about a feature or function in an institutionally-supported tool. Helpdesk hours have been extended.
• Western Libraries will continue to support online courses in OWL in a number of ways. More information is available in their Most Recent COVID-19 Post

1. Student Experience has a developed a set of resources to help students transition to remote learning. Please visit their website.