Image from the W3C's Digital Accessibility FoundationsFree Online Course page By Jennifer Bland According to the CDC, 1 in 4 adults in the United States lives with a disability. In South Carolina, the percentage is even higher with 1 in 3 adults reporting having a disability. However, the most recent report from the NCES found … Continue reading ICYMI: Accessibility and ADA Compliance in Online Courses
March Faculty Spotlight
Want to give someone a shout-out? Email academicinnovation@uscupstate.edu! Student success is Kristi Miller's, Assistant Professor of Nursing, top priority. In her continuous quest for course improvement, Dr. Miller participated in both the Engaged Pedagogy & Hybrid Course Design Institute with CAIFS and in the OER and Affordable Resources Grant Competition with the Library for two … Continue reading March Faculty Spotlight
Building a Safe Classroom Enviroment
By Kristen Stevenson The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework promotes synergies among teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence to achieve learning in courses. Your teaching presence sets the tone of the classroom (both face-to-face and virtual) for students to safely and successfully interact with both the content and one another. While college classrooms often … Continue reading Building a Safe Classroom Enviroment
Back to a Better Normal
By Toni DiMella Those who work in higher ed are “planners.” We start making the Spring schedule two weeks into the Fall semester. The final exam schedule for a semester is posted on the first day of classes. We can tell you on August 13 what we’ll be doing on December 2—by the hour. The … Continue reading Back to a Better Normal
