Best Practices Inventory
We believe quality teaching and learning is built upon research findings and best practices in education. This section serves as an inventory for a range of helpful resources such as quality instructional design, quality standards and rubrics, effective teaching and learning practices, technologies and processes, student support resources. This page is updated periodically. Please check back again for more updates.
Resources for Online Teaching & Learning
California Community Colleges/California Virtual Campus-Online Education Initiative
CVC-OEI Resources for Remote Instruction and Services
Colorado Community Colleges Online (CCCOnline)
CCCOnline COVID-19 Support and Resources website. Please also see the Remote Instruction Toolkit developed and shared by the Colorado Community College System.
Getting Started with Canvas in 10 Steps (Faculty)
A blog post created by Karen Pinto
Floridashines
Resources for At-home-success
North Dakota University System Core Technology Services
North Dakota University System Core Technology Services COVID-19 resources website
Open Textbook Library
Make a difference in your students' lives with free, openly-licensed textbooks.
OPEN SUNY and SUNY Online
Resources for remote learning during COVID-19 shared by the OPEN SUNY and SUNY Online for campus leaders, students and faculty
Quality Matters: QM Emergency Remote Instruction (ERI) Checklist
Quality Matters created the ERI Checklist
UCF Keep Teaching (for Faculty)
UCF Keep Teaching (for Faculty)
UCF Keep Learning (for Students)
UCF Keep Teaching (for Faculty)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
How to Quickly (and Safely) Move a Lab Course Online
Suggestions for Teaching a Synchronous Class
The Florida State College at Jacksonville shared a document based on a Faculty Focus article to guide instructors in synchronous online teaching.
Virtual and Remote Labs
Virtual and Remote Labs
The University of Central Florida's Pegasus Innovation Lab compiled rich resources as a comprehensive inventory of tools and platforms available for educators.
How to Rethink Science Lab Classes
This Inside Higher Ed article identifies five objectives for online labs that are critical to any science laboratory experience.
How to Quickly (and Safely) Move a Lab Course Online
The Chronicle of Higher Education reviews how to safely and quickly move a lab course online.
Information and Resources for Online Proctoring
Honorlock
COVID-19 Emergency Pricing available for all Florida Higher Ed Institutions. Contact Andres Taborta (ataborta@honorlock.com; Phone: 844-841-LOCK)
Proctorio
COVID-19 Emergency Pricing available for all Florida Higher Ed Institutions. Contact Ivan Babovic (ivanb@proctorio.com; Phone: 480-418-0988)
Respondus
Institutions NOT currently licensing LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor may obtain a free, unlimited-use pilot through May (or June).
Developing and Facilitating Proctorio Exams in Canvas
Florida Polytechnic University shared this YouTube video.
Accessibility and Copyright
Accessibility
U.S. DOE Press Release for Accessibility Webinar and Fact Sheet
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education released today a webinar on ensuring web accessibility for students with disabilities for schools utilizing online learning during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. In addition, OCR published a fact sheet for education leaders on how to protect students' civil rights as school leaders take steps to keep students safe and secure. These resources will assist education leaders in making distance learning accessible to students with disabilities and in preventing discrimination during this Administration-wide response effort.
Copyright
Resources on Copyright & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
Library Copyright Experts have joined together to provide these resources for higher education, including college, research, community college, and special libraries.
Well-being
Well-being in Stressful Times
This guide is for keeping calm and keeping up your spirits in stressful time. See the "Stuck at home" tab for things to do with kids, activities for yourself, and help with classes.
K-12 Resources
American School Counselor Association
ASCA shares some very helpful COVID-19 resources on its website.
Floridashines
Resources for At-home-success
Bring the World to Your Classroom
WFSU and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for Florida teachers like you.
Helpful Resources & Real-World Tips
- The Rapid E-Learning Blog: Blog with practical, real-world tips for e-learning success.
- E-Learning Heroes: Active online community that offers tips, e-learning challenges, discussions, and access to templates and assets.
- Learning Solutions Magazine: Magazine with strategies, tools, technologies, services, and best practices to design, develop, implement and manage online learning programs.
- eLearning Industry: Online community or professional which offers articles, concepts, software and resources.
- eLearning Learning: Hub that collects and organizes the best posts and articles on online learning.
- The eLearning Coach: Website with actionable strategies, practical content, product reviews and resources for understanding, designing, and developing online learning.
- Cathy Moore: Blog with ideas for designing lively training for working adults.
- Jane Bozar Bozarthzone: Blog with ideas for creating and outsourcing inexpensive online learning solutions, along with general thoughts about the training and development field.
Organizations
- Quality Matters: Organization that supports quality assurance.
- Online Learning Consortium: Organization that provides professional development, instruction, best practice publications and guidance to educators, online learning professionals and organizations.
- The eLearning Guild: Online community with information, networking, and resources for online learning.
- Education Advisory Board (EAB): Organization that provides best practice research and practical advice to key academic and administrative leaders.
- The International E-learning Association: Online community of online learning professionals, researchers, and students.
- EDUCAUSE: Online community of IT leaders and professionals committed to advancing higher education.
- The Association for Talent Development: Professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees in organizations.
Training & Support
- Lynda: Online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
- Atomic Learning: Online training and development solutions for education.
- TechSmith: Online tutorials, support and community for several development products including Snagit, Camtasia, Relay, Loop, Jing, etc.
- Adobe TV: Online resources and support for Adobe tools and services.
Development
- eLearning Brothers: Online library of templates and assets.
- eLearning Infographics: Online library of infographics for online learning.
- eLearning Art: Online library of templates and art for online learning.
- WebAIM: Comprehensive web accessibility solutions.
- Thinkstock: Online library of royalty-free stock images.
- Unsplash: Online library of free, high-resolution images
- Freesound: Online library of audio snippits, samples, recording available for use under Creative Commons licenses.
- Library of Congress: Online library that offers a rich, diverse and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage you in your intellectual endeavors.
- w3schools: Website with tutorials and support for programmers.
Professional Development Webinar Archives
FLVC collaborates with our colleagues, partners, friends and supporters across the state to host or co-host professional development webinars for our teaching and learning community members. The webinars cover various popular topics and are presented by guest speakers who are experts in the field. The webinar recordings and related resources are archived and shared with the community as well as on this website.
2018
October 2018
UDOIT Matters
Nancy Swenson, Karen Tinsley-Kim, Jacob Bates and Wendy Howard, University of Central Florida
2019
January 2019
The 2018 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey: Results and Opportunities
John Opper, Executive Director at FLVC
February 2019
Valentine’s CoLAB Online Networking Event
Co-hosted by: University of Florida Office of Teaching Excellence, TOPkit and FLVC-IDN
*This event was not recorded.
March 2019
Key Strategies to Supercharge Your Technology Training
James Jorstad, Director of Academic Technology Services at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
April 2019
Online Professional Development and the Networked Knowledge Activities
Vanessa Dennen, Professor of Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies at Florida State University
August 2019
FLVC IDN “Open Mic”
Yunhong “Tom” Tu, Florida Virtual Campus
*This event was not recorded.
September 2019
Online Project Management for Instructional Designers Panel
Katie Profeta & Lucia d’Ancona, Indian River State College
Amanda Major & Sue Bauer, University of Central Florida
Christie Nicholas & Heidi Schroeder, University of South Florida
Brenda Such & Emma Brady, University of Florida
Co-hosted by: University of South Florida, TOPkit and FLVC-IDN
October 2019
Strategies for Managing Instructional Designers' Workload Panel
Michelle Franz, Seminole State College
Wendy Howard, University of Central Florida
Michelle Piper, St. Petersburg College
Colleen Reiner, University of South Florida
Vicki Westergard, St. Petersburg College
Geni Wright, Valencia College
November 2019
Creating Faculty Buy-in for Course Quality Indicators
Kelvin Thompson, University of Central Florida
Michelle Franz, Seminole State College
2020
January 2020
Developing a Support Model for Faculty to Infuse UDL & Accessibility in Online Courses
Geni Wright, Valencia College
Rose Tran, Valencia College
Aaron Bergeson, Valencia College
February 2020
DAccess for People with Disabilities to Online Programs and Resources*
David Kutch
Office for Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Education
*This webinar was not recorded under our agreement with the OCR.
March 2020
Issues, Tools and Solutions for Web Accessibility*
Logan Gerrity & Matthew Vitale
Office for Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Education
*This webinar was not recorded under our agreement with the OCR.
April 2020
Really? You’re Still Talking About Faculty Buy-In to the Quality Initiative While #RemoteTeaching Is On-Going?
Dr. Kelvin Thompson
Center for Distributed Learning
University of Central Florida
April 2020
Resources for Web Accessibility: A Follow-up and Q&A Session*
Judith Risch, David Kutch, Logan Gerrity & Matthew Vitale
Office for Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Education
*This webinar was not recorded under our agreement with the OCR.
May 2020
"TOPR-tunities" for Success: Using the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository to Create
Engaging Online Content
Shelly Wyatt & Alyssa Albrecht
Center for Distributed Learning
University of Central Florida
June 2020
Seeing "Green": An Introduction to Mental Health Needs for Distance Learners
Ritzy Ettinger
University of Florida
Webinar Handout.pdf
June 2020
Seeing “Green”: Advanced Strategies for Supporting Students Experiencing Mental Health Distress
Ritzy Ettinger
University of Florida
June Webinar Information.pdf
June Webinar Handout.pdf
July 2020
Strategies for Online and Remote Lab Courses
Bryan Biggers, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Christine Brown, University of South Florida
Debra Sheridan-Brinkman, Miami Dade College
Vicki Westergard, St. Petersburg College
Webinar Handout
Webinar Resource Sheet