Online Education Newsletter

Aloha mai!

Summer Sun, Rest and Relaxation, or just work? Many have been working tirelessly on their course updates, digital accessibility updates, and more. Still to come: Kapi‘olani Summer Camp on August 1st.

In this issue, you will find some Google updates and tips -- check those out! Also check out the many great on-demand videos and upcoming live webinars on best practices in online teaching and more at go2knowledge.org. Finally, enjoy some summer reading from our reading list in the "Best for the Last" section.

Leʻaleʻa nō Kau Wela!

Do you combine multiple sections of a course in Laulima? Please note that due to FERPA concerns raised by the UH Data Governance Office, ITS has revised their request process for cross-listing or combining Laulima sites. You will find new guidance language on the Laulima site request page that reflects how faculty could request to combine their courses while still being FERPA compliant.

Here’re the highlights relevant to you for FALL 2022:

Dissemination mode vs. Collaboration mode: this distinction was necessary to ensure that students are fully aware (and have an option to withdraw) before the start of the semester if there is cross-CRN collaboration.

• Combined sites in Dissemination mode are used for disseminating announcements and providing course content only: (a) Don’t use the Email tool since it shows names and email addresses of students in all CRNs, in violation of FERPA. (b) Discussion/Forum groups cannot be formed across CRNs.

• Combined sites in Collaboration mode can use the Email tool and other collaborative activities (such as discussions/forums) across CRNs, but need to include in the syllabus “This course space is being shared by students in the following CRNs[list] and if you do not wish to be in a shared course space, please drop this section and register for another section of this course.”

• Submit your request to combine sites by August 18, 2022, if you plan to use the collaboration mode.

Note that in future semesters, you will need to submit a request before the registration begins if your combined sites will operate in the collaboration mode.

Kapi‘olani Summer Camp is August 1-5 and we would LOVE to have you join us! Summer Camp is an engaging, free, Zoom-based professional development and personal growth event hosted by Kapi‘olani Community College. There are a diverse range of session topics that include instructional, cultural, and health and wellness topics and many more. This year, we have an exciting in-person event to end the week: Friday Field Day at Kaimana Beach Park!

All activities will be happening in real-time for maximum engagement - no recordings or replays, so be sure to register and attend anything you want to experience live. Don’t miss out on networking with subject matter experts and colleagues from across Hawai‘i and beyond!

Feel free to share this news with colleagues, students, or even friends and family. Anyone who’s interested is welcome to attend! Please check out the 2022 Kapi‘olani Summer Camp program for session descriptions – you may sign up for as few or as many sessions as you like.

Check out the Kapi‘olani Summer Camp website to learn more and please feel free to contact the summer camp counselors at sumrcamp@hawaii.edu with any questions.

Currently, Kapi‘olani CC has a subscription with Go2Knowledge, which offers Kap‘olani CC faculty and staff free access to dozens of Innovative Educators webinars, both live and on demand (pre-recorded). Many of them are quite good! Here's a sampling to pique your interest:

Upcoming live webinars:

• How to Establish & Sustain a Faculty Mentor Program (Tuesday 7/12, 9:00 - 10:00am HST)

• Transitioning Back To Campus: Learning Loss, Student Mental Health & The Socio-Emotional Impact Of COVID (Thursday 8/11, 9:00-10:00am HST)

Recently-added on demand webinars:

• 20 Emerging Best Practices for Remote Teaching & Learning (60 min)

• 5 Strategies For Managing Instructional Workload In The Online Classroom (60 min)

And many, many more. Sign up at Kapi‘olani CC's G2K account page and browse through the offerings.

Loom now provides an automated transcript for every video even if you're on a free plan! With transcriptions, you can search for videos by what was mentioned, jump to the right spot by clicking a word, and watch with closed captions that you can drag around the video player. Get more info about reading, correcting, and accessing your Loom video transcripts and closed captions in their Help Center.

Google is adding additional font style and sizing options, and the ability to customize header, subheader, and body text separately in Google Forms. You can use different typefaces and sizes for different parts of your form.

Additionally, rich text formatting is now available in Google Forms, enabling you to customize and add emphasis to your forms. This highly requested feature allows you to use bolding, underlining, italicizing, hyperlinks, and lists in titles, question titles, and descriptions.

Most of us know how to change the URL of a Google file to force a copy. But here are a few more tricks that you’ll find oh-so-useful!

Make a Copy Link

• Force others to make a copy before viewing your document
  → Replce /edit with /copy

Preview Link

• To share a clutter-free view of your document or slides:

→ Replace /edit with /preview

Make a Copy with Comments Link

• Force others to make a copy that includes comments from the original before viewing your document

→ Replace /edit with /copy?copyComments=true

Template Link

• Share an easy-to-copy preview of your document

→ Replace /edit with /template/preview

PDF Link

• Share a direct download of a PDF version of your document

→ Google Docs & Sheets: Replace /edit with /export?format=pdf

→ Google Slides & Drawings: Replace /edit with /export/pdf

Reverse Engineer

• If you are on the receiving end of the force copy URL, you can reverse engineer a Preview, Make a Copy, Template, or PDF link to see the document in the regular view mode
  → Replace /preview, /copy, /template/preview, /export?format=pdf, or /export/pdf with /edit.

Credit: Google Document URL Tricks (Vincent, 2017)

• Everything Old is New Again: Rethinking the Socratic Method for the 21st Century (article, Faculty Focus, June 6, 2022)

Using technology for technology’s sake is rarely a path to deeper learning. In fact, the most effective edtech tools are the ones that put a 21st-century spin on principles that have been the bedrock of education for centuries—or even longer. The Socratic method, for instance, is a 3,000-year-old teaching strategy that involves carefully questioning students until they discover answers on their own. The method is widely recognized as one of the best ways to encourage critical thinking and self-directed, effective learning.

• Ten Online Course Structural Components to Support Learning (article, Faculty Focus, June 1, 2022)
  

The way a course is designed has a big impact on student experiences and outcomes. courses should be consistently designed throughout the course, instructors should offer an intentional orientation, and use lower stakes assignments to help students learn navigation.

• Is total in-person learning a thing of the past? (article, eCampus News, June 1, 2022)

Very few higher education leaders believe that higher education will ever return to only in-person learning. Key findings from a report on the future of higher education and the impact of COVID-19 found that most staff believe innovation and creativity are the most important skills for the future workforce, socioeconomic and sociocultural barriers are the greatest concern for at-risk students, institutions should implement greater flexibility for learners and offer in-person and/or online course options, and hybrid courses are the "future of education."

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