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If you’re thinking about teaching an online course, or are considering revamping an existing course, we can help! SHSU Online provides quality solutions for all academic and professional online education needs.

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Your instructional designer is your Blackboard and education technology expert. Our goal is to help you develop your course into what you want it to be, whether that means assisting you in creating a new course, translating a current course into the online learning environment, or revitalizing a course you have been teaching for years.

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Faculty Course Design Services

Instructional Designers

Instructional designers and design specialists can help you build out your course, coordinate our services, and offer answers and solutions for any questions you might have.

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Media Innovation

The SHSU Online Media Innovation team brings educational content to life. Let us help engage students with compelling video content, animations, or imagery throughout your online course. You can use information from this document to familiarize yourself with Media Innovation’s capabilities in enhancing online courses with multimedia content.

Offering a wide range of services, our team can scale its efforts to meet the needs of creators who wish to utilize our skills and resources. These include the areas of video production, lecture capture, captioning services, graphic design services, and others.

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Online Faculty Development

Faculty Development Sessions Sign-Up

SHSU Online offers classroom-based face-to-face sessions, completely online certification courses, and how-to sessions by appointment.

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Online Course Session Descriptions

List of fully online Faculty Development sessions offered by the SHSU Online Faculty Development team.

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Face-to-Face Course Session Descriptions

List of face to face Faculty Development sessions offered by the SHSU Online Faculty Development team.

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Check out the SHSU eLearning Support Blog, which features many handy tips and tricks for online faculty members.

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Quality Commitment

Course Design Rubric

The SHSU Online Course Design Rubric is used to guide and inform the course development process, as well as evaluate the design of any course which contains online components. It can be used whether the course is fully or partially online, flipped or web‐assisted face‐to‐face.

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Technical Evaluation

A spinoff of the rubric, the Technical Evaluation provides both SHSU Online and academic departments the opportunity to document evidence of sound pedagogical practices and establishes quality assurance standards in the online course environment.

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Course Development Stipends

There are instances when course development stipends can be paid out to a faculty member who undertakes the opportunity to develop a course for online delivery. SHSU Online plays a role in the stipend process by providing feedback about the quality and delivery‐readiness of newly developed courses.

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Technology Solutions

Publishing Partners

SHSU Online has partnered with several publishers in order to bring faculty tools and resources that can be used to enrich course content to better engage and serve our students.

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Software Integration

As part of the SHSU Online mission, we routinely review and make recommendation on instructional software applications for academic use in distance education programs and courses.

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Faculty Guides and Forms

Request to Offer an Online Course

PDF forms requesting to offer a course in fully online, online-live, or hybrid/blended modes.

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Online Course Rubrics and Technical Evaluations

Guides to to inform the course development process and evelauate the design of courses with online components. The rubric and technical evaluation can also be used as a self-assessment instrument by instructors.

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