This page is for UTA faculty members, graduate instructors, and teaching assistants, who are seeking information, advice, ideas, resources, and support for their online course planning and teaching. Evidence-based information, best practices, and training material for online course planning and teaching from the Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence (CRTLE), the Center for Distance Education (CDE), the College of Education, the Office of Information Technology (OIT), and many other resources are provided on this page.
Visit UTA’s Coronavirus and Fall 2020 Semester Information page for UTA’s response to COVID-19, available resources and announcements.
Other resources from UTA:
- UTA Remote Instructions for Students, Staff, and Faculty
- UTA Tools and Training for Teaching Online
- Moving Your Course Online: When Campus Closes (UTA Canvas course)
- UTA Libraries: Teaching and Learning During a Shutdown
- Pivoting to Online Teaching: Research and Practitioner Perspectives (free online course)
Join the UTA Faculty Helping Faculty team where you and your colleagues can share strategies, assignments, or question pertaining to effective online teaching and course planning.
Check our Event Calendar for periodic seminars put together from CRTLE, CDE, and the College of Education. The seminars or webinars will be streamed online using Microsoft Teams.
Here are some more articles and resources:
- Moving Online Now (from the Chronicle of Higher Ed)
- Merlot Collection of Online Learning and Support Resources
- ACEU’s Online Teaching Toolkit
- Humanizing Online Teaching (By Drs. Mary Raygoza, Raina León, and Aaminah Norris)
- Bringing Your Course Online (compiled by the Modern Language Association)
- ASPIRE Alliance Guide for Teaching Inclusively During COVID-19
Curious how to create an effective online course? Below are several resources for creating effective online courses, for creating high quality hybrid course designs, for maintaining effective online classroom engagement.
View several training webinars on Canvas presented by the Center for Distance Education and the Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence.
In partnership with the Center for Distance Education, the Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence coordinated and produced several training sessions for multiple colleges on how to transition to online instruction as a result of the campus shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These sessions occured on the week of March, 16-23, 2020 – the extended week of Spring Break.
As the University moved quickly to online instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many faculty members created resources to assist each other during this transition. The online teaching and learning environment demands instructors and students to be flexible in the face of change, especially given the challenges all of us face around health, safety, and income.
Below is a master list of of various resources for going online. CRTLE will continue to add to this list as new material comes to our attention. If you would like to add any resources, please contact us at crtle@uta.edu.
