Welcome to the Learning Design and Support Team!


Resources to Move Your Course Online 

Teaching during times of potential disruption requires creative and flexible thinking about how faculty can support students in achieving course learning outcomes. This page offers resources for faculty at Fleming College who are creating a student-centered learning experience in an online learning environment.

For information from Fleming’s Information Technology Services regarding equipment and software needed to teach online, see https://department.flemingcollege.ca/its/important-info/ 

1. Communication

Communicating with your students 

Looking for exemplars for communicating with students? Check out this link from the Association of Colleges and University Educators Online Teaching Toolkit. 

Connecting with each other 

Communicating clear expectations 

2. Content and Presentations 

Presentation/Lecture 

Demonstrating a Skill 

Accessibility

Labs 

Research

3. Student Engagement 

In–class discussions 

Collaboration and Group Work

  • Use Microsoft Teams to Enable Class Collaboration 
    • Login to Teams: Login to MyCampus & click Email on the left-hand sidebar.  This will take you to Outlook web access.  Click the ‘waffle’ icon (9 dots) in the top-left corner to access the other Office 365 applications menu and select Teams. Login with <username>@flemingcollege.ca. (Using your email address, (e.g. firstName.lastName@flemingcollege.ca) will not work in most cases.) 
    • Resource: How to create a Team for your course 
    • Resource: How to start a video meeting in your Team 
  • Students can host their own WebEx rooms for group work 

4. Assessments

Formative feedback 

Unsupervised (Open Book)

Web–Secured 

  • Use Respondus Lockdown Browser for a D2L quiz  
  • Consider using Assignment Dropbox submissions and enable TurnItIn  
    • For example, if you have a quiz with long answer questions, this could be made into an assignment and submitted through Dropbox, enabling TurnItIn. 
    • Resource: Using Assignment Dropbox 
    • Resource: Using TurnItIn 

Presentations 

Written Assignments 

Academic Integrity

5. Student Resources

Library Services Modules and Tutorials

  • Library Tutorials
    • Highlights: Finding articles using Discovery, search strategies, evaluating sources of information, citation style guide
    • Resource: Access tutorials here

6. Continuous learning 

Online modules 

Strategies for remote teaching and learning 

Open Educational Resources (OER) 

Universal Design for Learning 

This resource is adapted from Durham College’s https://durhamcollege.ca/cafe/teaching/planning-to–move-your-course-online/

Our team is project based and available to support learning design, learning technology, teaching excellence and professional learning at Fleming College. LDS is led by Molly Westland, Director of Academic Quality, Planning & Operations.

We work with faculty on curriculum development, teaching strategies and meaningful integration of technology into teaching practice. We’re ready to help you when you need it!

 

Meet the Team

Molly Westland,  Director of Academic Quality, Planning and Operations
Molly is a lifetime educator with a passion for high quality, innovative teaching. In her role as a nursing educator, she championed story-based learning technique, portfolio learning and clinical education techniques. Molly was the Accreditation Board Chair for the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing for many years and continues her excitement for quality nursing education on their Accreditation Advisory Committee.


Mary Overholt, Teaching & Learning Specialist
Mary is a Teaching & Learning Specialist who has worked in faculty development and curriculum development for the past 5 years. She particularly enjoys supporting faculty members throughout their development and continuous learning as educators. Her teaching background includes high school English and math, and Communications and General Education courses in the School of General Arts &  Science here at Fleming.

Jennifer Ramsdale, Teaching & Learning Specialist
Jennifer began as a professor in Fleming’s Massage Therapy Program, as well as, developing and teaching curriculum in the School of Health and Wellness. Currently she is a Teaching and Learning Specialist within the Learning Design and Support Team assisting faculty to create engaging learning experiences that are built on strong support and measurable success. Jennifer is excited to assist the development of learning communities at Fleming College and to find points of connection across disciplines and programs.

Jodie Black, Teaching & Learning Specialist
Jodie has worked as a college educator since 2008 and specializes in accessibility, learning development, and universal design for learning (UDL). Before joining Fleming in 2014, she worked at the Nova Scotia Community College where she taught about disability and accessibility, worked in accessibility services, and led the province’s first UDL project. Her favourite part of being a Teaching and Learning Specialist is seeing how curriculum and instructional design positively impact student learning. She is co-author of UDL Navigators in Higher Education: A Field Guide and contributing author to Transforming Higher Education through Universal Design for Learning: An International Perspective.

Marcia Luke, Teaching & Learning Specialist
Marcia has been working in post-secondary education in a variety of teaching, editorial, marketing, management, and sales positions since 2005. She has a passion for lifelong learning and designing, refining, updating, and teaching curriculum. Marcia has recently contributed to a #1 Bestselling book, “Silent Grief, Healing, & Hope”, and has authored numerous articles for TWINS Magazine, The Mobile Shop, and New Dreamhomes Magazine

Amber Fraser, Teaching & Learning Specialist
TBD

Alana Callan, Digital Learning Design Specialist
Alana is a digital pioneer who is working and supporting online learning and Educational Technology since it began (yes, she’s that old). She is passionate about working with others and supporting learning in all formats. She is an avid learner and expert in course design, integrating technology and all things digital and real in education.

Deborah Leal, Digital Learning Design Specialist
Deborah is a multi-talented learning designer with more than 15 years’ of experience designing and developing training, as well as leading training implementation teams in the private sector, in Provincial & Municipal government, and in the post-secondary sector. She is an experienced training facilitator/professor, fluent with many delivery models including blended solutions, instructor-led training, and eLearning, as well as strategic training program development in response to emerging employment trends and learner needs.


Terry Greene, Digital Learning Advisor
Terry Greene is a Digital Learning Advisor in the Learning Design & Support Team. He is interested in both the cutting and trailing edges of technology in education. He is especially interested in those that increase the human element in technology-enabled learning. Hint, hint, those are probably the more open ones.

To reach us, you can

Email LDSTeam@flemingcollege.ca,
Call ext. 1216,
Follow @FlemingLDS on Twitter,
Visit C1203 (next to the library) at the Sutherland Campus,