{"id":114132,"date":"2020-03-20T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T23:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114132"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:36:34","slug":"faculty-prepare-online-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/20\/faculty-prepare-online-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> faculty prepare for online instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_82852\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b2g5B7huepo?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"糖心Vlog官方 faculty prepare for online instruction\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Even before the decision was made to teach classes online in early March, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>\u2019s Information Technology Services &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhonline.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Online Innovation Center<\/a> (<abbr>糖心Vlog官方OIC<\/abbr>), had a program to help faculty transition their courses online.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方OIC<\/abbr>, with support from the College of Education, then launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhonline.hawaii.edu\/id\/resources\/emergency.php\">Teaching Online During an Emergency<\/a> website to help faculty prepare. Online instruction commences on March 23.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty have been diving in and working hard to shift to the new paradigm. <abbr>糖心Vlog官方OIC<\/abbr> has been providing a range of resources to help faculty transition, including a checklist with resources, online mini-lessons, online office hours, and one to one consultation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Associate Vice President for Students and Director of Academic Technology Services Hae Okimoto said about a third of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> faculty statewide were already utilizing distance education methods before the current health crisis, although the rates varied across the 10 campuses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/system-online-education-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Person at a computer\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-114139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/system-online-education-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/system-online-education-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/system-online-education-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/system-online-education.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What is really impressive to me are faculty who have used technology before saying, &lsquo;Hey, I\u02bbll help. Do you want me to help my peers and my colleagues?&rsquo;&rdquo; Okimoto said.<\/p>\n<p>Systemwide collaboration has been key. <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Education&#8217;s Technology and Distance Programs shared their resources and expertise. Leeward Community College instructional designers collaborated to develop a remote instruction template. Instructional designers on all campuses have been collaborating in teaching online lessons and support for their faculty.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s instructional design programs are nationally recognized. The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方OIC<\/abbr> received the Effective Practice Award for Innovate 2020 from the International Online Learning Consortium.<\/p>\n<h2>National leader <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr><\/h2>\n<p>Laudable work was already being done at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/ohana.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/topp\/\">Teaching Online Preparation Program<\/a> (<abbr>TOPP<\/abbr>) has received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/31\/kapiolani-topp-honor-2020\/\">two national awards over the last year<\/a>. The <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Distance Education Team is also this year&#8217;s <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> nominee for the Governor&#8217;s Award for Team Excellence Award of Merit. Instructional Designer and <abbr>TOPP<\/abbr> team member Jamie Sickel said the <abbr>TOPP<\/abbr> program has already graduated 93 faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;(Faculty) have proven to be an amazing resource during this time of uncertainty,&rdquo; Sickel said.<\/p>\n<p>The <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> distance education team quickly put out a call for volunteers, arranged spaces (both physical and virtual), and communicated to the campus that they were all-hands-on-deck to support their colleagues in the shift to remote learning. Volunteers answering that call contributed copious resources, necessitating the creation of <a href=\"https:\/\/kapiolani.padlet.org\/celtt1\/xqk51yiqvyij\">a public bulletin board via Padlet<\/a> just to give them an outlet to share.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;&#8230;it is heartwarming to see our faculty, instructional designers and staff pulling together, working long hours, to insure the best education so that our students can complete this semester.&rdquo; &#8212;Hae Okimoto<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The campus is also offering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/coronavirus-covid-19-staff-and-faculty-info\/\">Teaching and Learning Contingency<\/a> support sessions, either via Zoom or face-to-face. Online faculty have assisted in the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/14DF-FpcfP6aQvVON2A5p3meOlB5IfVZH1guUaOMFsug\/edit\">campus faculty<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1c8xubv2w95pvHtMhA9hA1sXHVg-yIDTkR59j_NsLn-E\/edit\">counselor\/support staff<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1mBWS3rUUjlTDpPUlaiASn7bHRKxm3cOtn7p3KA9HkMs\/edit\">student resources<\/a> and have volunteered their contact information to be circulated as a list of mentors\/helpers for less experienced colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Sickel said <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> faculty have been &ldquo;amazing.&rdquo; Lecturers who are not currently teaching this semester but had previously taught hybrid and online courses have jumped in to help. An online faculty member has been creating Laulima (<abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s online learning and collaboration system) lessons and importing them into the class sites of colleagues who teach the same course, in order to help those who might otherwise be left in the lurch.<\/p>\n<p>Okimoto said, &ldquo;These are extraordinary times and it is heartwarming to see our faculty, instructional designers and staff pulling together, working long hours, to insure the best education so that our students can complete this semester.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> faculty have been diving in and working hard to shift to the new paradigm created by COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[1411,1419,61,62,416,152,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,66],"class_list":["post-114132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-online-instruction","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-information-technology","tag-information-technology-services","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114132"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124589,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114132\/revisions\/124589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}