Students and faculty have completed the first three weeks of the semester at Muhlenberg. Most teaching and learning is happening online, with a smaller number of courses for first year students being taught on campus or in a blended environment that integrates in-person and online learning activities. We dedicated the summer to helping faculty prepare for this semester, offering 14 sessions of our faculty development course Camp Design Online. Throughout the summer, we were awed by the generosity staff and faculty poured into this effort, as well as an outstanding and dedicated group of student Digital Learning Assistants who ensured that student perspectives were present and shaping conversations around online course design and instruction.
This is one of several upcoming posts featuring the variety of practices animating and humanizing online courses at Muhlenberg. A good place to begin for those interested in understanding more about teaching and learning online is this video interview with Flower Darby, a leader in online learning and author of the text Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science to Online Classes.
The video is also available here:
Read more by Flower Darby in her column in the Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.chronicle.com/author/flower-darby