[ATTW-L] question about online courses

[Alexander, Gia O]

Good Morning ATTW,

Texas A&M at College Station is fully online, synchronous or asynchronous (instructor's choice).

We already teach the majority of our introductory technical communication sections, ENGL 210, online. Our coordinator, Dr. Claire Carly-Miles, creates a course template in our LMS, Blackboard 9, that we can then import into our own courses. This template is editable, and experienced teachers are not required to use it (although most do). We do have a revised template in place for the remainder of Spring 2020 taking into account changes we needed to make in response to COVID-19.

For formerly in-peron classes, instructors of record can either move to the existing online format, or use videoconferencing tools such as ZOOM and Mediasite to hold discussions with students.

Most aspects of our university-wide resource site for responding to COVID-19, keepteaching.tamu.edu, are open without requiring login, and so may be helpful to ATTW members, as might similar resource sites at peer institutions.

Here's hoping this helps, and that everyone stays safe and well. I will miss not having our conference next week.

Best Regards,
Gia Alexander

From: ATTW-L [mailto:attw-l-bounces at attw.org] On Behalf Of McPherson, Dr. Cynthia
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Subject: [ATTW-L] question about online courses

Folks,
We are reviewing how we offer online courses and would like to know what others are doing.

Here are the variations we have noted so far:
Fully online - asynchronous; students and faculty participate from any location; no synchronous scheduled sessions
Fully online with synchronous scheduled sessions (via Zoom or other meeting software); students and faculty participate from any location
Fully online with synchronous scheduled sessions (via Zoom or other meeting software); students participate from a campus location (students must be in a classroom on the main or a remote campus)

I'd appreciate it if you would share how you present online courses.

Thanks,
CMc

Cynthia McPherson, PhD
Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English
Department of English and Languages
Tarleton State University
Box T-0300
Stephenville, TX 76402
254.968.9036
mcpherson at tarleton.edu<mailto:mcpherson at tarleton.edu>

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