Presentations & webinars

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...

In March 2023, Mizzou 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 November 2022, Liz du Plessis, Instructional Designer for Mizzou 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.

As an online instructor, you want to trust that your students’ work reflects their honest efforts and abilities, but in the age of AI, you might fear that cheating is inevitable in the online environment.

In this recorded webinar, participants learned how to incorporate authentic learning and assessment into their online courses in the brave new world of AI.

Zoom meetings don’t need to be anonymous, watered-down versions of in-person classes. In this recorded session, we explore high-engagement, active learning strategies for live class discussions using tools in Zoom and Canvas.

In this recorded webinar, we discuss ways to incorporate authentic learning and assessment into your online course in the brave new world of AI.

This recorded webinar includes a brief discussion on student engagement, an escape game activity, and a tutorial for developing your own simple game using Google Forms.

This recorded webinar provides a brief introduction to designing HyFlex multimodal learning environments, which allow students the flexibility to choose their mode of instruction.

In this recorded webinar, we discussed the ways in which generative AI is changing the creation, modification, and curation of diverse media forms.

In this recorded webinar, we took a virtual field trip to learn how a team of MU researchers & instructional designers engaged geology students with an interactive virtual field experience.

Explore the powerful role of video in cultivating teacher credibility and effectiveness in your asynchronous online courses.

This recorded webinar focuses on how to use Open Educational Resources (OER) creation tools provided and supported by the UM System.

In this presentation, Alex Dupree offers a research-based framework to inspire instructors to renew their teaching practices in the age of AI.

Hypothesis is an open-source, collaborative annotation software that enables students to highlight text on any web page or PDF, insert annotations, and reply to others. Annotations can include text, images, and video for multimedia storytelling and analysis. Hypothesis provides an...

This presentation demonstrates the creation of engaging educational videos using Adobe Express, highlighting its features and the benefits of incorporating videos into teaching practices.

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...

This presentation features short demos of free tools using OpenAI's latest language model and a conversational AI-powered search engine.