UH faculty prepare for online instruction
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University of Hawaiʻi
UH Online Innovation Center conducts a mini-class online for faculty.
Screen shot of UH Online Innovation Center mini-class with faculty.
UH Online Innovation Center mini-class.
UH Online Innovation Center mini-class online in session.
Link to video and sound (details below): https://bit.ly/33zSAK7
WHO: Approximately 2,000 University of Hawai‘i faculty, about a third of whom were already doing some kind of distance education.
WHERE: Across 10 campuses statewide. There is assistance available at every campus for their faculty.
WHY: To protect the health and safety of our community, while continuing to provide students with their education through the spring semester.
WHEN: UH faculty were notified March 12, 2020, of the move to online delivery. Online instruction commences on Monday, March 23, 2020.
HOW: With the assistance of the UH Online Innovation Center (UHOIC) and instructional designers and faculty on every campus.
OTHER FACTS:
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When the decision was made to teach classes online, UHOIC, with support from the College of Education, launched the Teaching Online During an Emergency website to help faculty prepare in a matter of days.
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UHOIC has been providing a range of resources to help faculty get ready, including a teaching online checklist with tutorials, interactive online mini-lessons, and online office hours.
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Every campus has been providing instructional design help to their faculty.
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Faculty with experience have volunteered to help their colleagues, both on their campus and across the system.
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Kapi‘olani Community College is already a nationally recognized leader in preparing faculty for online education. The Teaching Online Preparation Program (TOPP) has received two national awards over the last year. The Kapi‘olani CC Distance Education Team, is also this year's UH nominee for the Governor's Award for Team Excellence Award of Merit.
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Kapi‘olani CC is also offering Teaching and Learning Contingency (TLC) support sessions, either via Zoom or face-to-face.
VIDEO:
BROLL: (1 minute, 07 seconds)
0:00-0:30, 5 clips: Shots of UH Online Innovation Center instructor conducthttps://bit.ly/33zSAK7ing online mini-lesson
0:30-0:48, 3 clips: Excerpts of archived video of online mini-lesson
0:48-1:07, 3 clips: Excerpts of Kapi‘olani CC Teaching Online Preparation Program (TOPP) video
SOUND:
Hae Okimoto, University of Hawai‘i Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of Academic Technology Services (says faculty have been rising to the occasion) (14 seconds)
“Itʻs more of, ‘What can I do now? What can I do today, tomorrow, next week so that my students will get as good experience as they possibly can?’ So that has been amazing.”
Okimoto (20 seconds)
“For a lot of our faculty this is their first time teaching online. And so I think from faculty, administrators, students, parents, weʻre doing the best that we can. Because our goal is we want our students to get the best education they can during these extraordinary times so they can finish and continue to graduate.”