Learn how Missouri Online combines Canvas Commons, the Canvas LMS, and our public website to organize and distribute course templates and other design resources to faculty. This presentation demonstrated how our unique organizational approach helps to streamline the course development process and enhance the learning experience for our students.
In November 2022, Liz du Plessis, Instructional Designer for Missouri Online, presented "Interactive Video Tools for Scenario-Based Learning: Walkthroughs of Storyline, Camtasia, and H5P" as a pre-recorded, on-demand session for the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference online event.
In March 2023, Missouri Online staff, along with faculty from Missouri S&T, presented A Recipe for Remote STEM Learning: Bringing Lab Learning Experiences to Life in a Fully Virtual Modality at the Missouri S&T Innovation in Teaching and Learning Conference in Rolla, MO.
Online discussion boards present unique opportunities for dynamic and interactive online instruction, yet come with their own set of distinct challenges. On September 30, 2022, Dr. Laura March and Dr. Catt Friel presented this session on improving online discussion boards at UMSL’s Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference.
Digital annotation tools offer ways to foster collaboration and disciplinary literacy skills using a Reading Apprenticeship framework. In this session Dr. Liz du Plessis shares her experiences using the free Hypothesis app in Canvas.
Digital games in asynchronous adult education present unique challenges to how we design instruction that is both authentic and engaging. In Fall 2021, we gamified an asynchronous course on designing games for learning to improve engagement. Modeling and learner autonomy within the design connected students with the content more meaningfully.
