Covid-Converted Edition #7: Reshaping Curriculum Design and Attitudes about Online Learning

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Interview with Amanda Smith, Chief Academic Officer, Academic Partnerships, and Maria Andersen, General Manager of Coursetune.
This special COVID-Converted Edition audio and video podcast series responds to the impact of COVID-19 on the way we live, learn, and work. Teachers all over the world have been thrown into teaching their "COVID-Converted" courses online. This series will focus on moving from this emergency remote teaching and learning to more thoughtfully prepared learning experiences. COVID is reshaping curriculum design and attitudes about online learning.

Academic Partners is "an online facilitator that assists public institutions of higher education in taking their academic programs online and recruits and retains qualified students through program completion. Coursetune helps institutions improve course and program design by focusing on mapping and assessment alignment." We discuss:
Watch on YoutubeAmanda and Maria's backgroundOverview of Coursetune, an elegant visual course planning toolAcademic Partnerships' roleGrowth of online programsNeed for change in curriculum designRelease of Courseplan ("Coursetune light")AP Off Campus toolkit to move instruction from classroom to onlineCritical outcomes alignment and supportFaculty trainingRole of instructional designersChallenge of short term vs. long term thinkingIntegration with the LMSNew features on the way: "variation layers" 

Podsafe music selectionWonderful Day by Debbie Poryes Trio - Jazz Pianist, Composer, Teacher & Vocalist

Duration: 51:59