The Sharpest Knife in the Drawer: Working Smarter not Harder
Course Description:
The Center for Online Learning (COLL) at the University of Guam supports students, staff, and faculty in their digital education endeavors. In this presentation, we will share one of our online teacher training courses: Enhance. The course demonstrates Moodle-integrated audio/visual learning tools designed to improve student retention and enhance learning. We feature online teaching best practices for universal design for learning (UDL), mobile-friendly design, and BigBlueButton, for low-bandwidth synchronous teaching contexts. We introduce teachers to H5P activities and the asynchronous digital tool, VoiceThread, for content delivery, student discussion, and collaboration. Our Enhance training encourages faculty to use the tools available to them, working smarter not harder, to develop memorable, high-quality, online Moodle courses. Finally, our trainers practice what we preach by organizing the course to encourage self-directed learning with an open-schedule, self-paced, and highly automated course design.
Date & Time: July 3, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM