Center for Teaching Excellence

Carolina Online Learning and Teaching: Promoting Professional Development and Better Teaching

The Carolina Online Learning and Teaching (COLT) Certificate of Completion program is designed to provide faculty with the foundations for teaching either in online, blended or hybrid formats.

Carolina Online Learning and Teaching: Promoting Professional Development and Better Teaching

The Master Class Series

The Master Class Series is designed to bring faculty and instructors together who are interested in exploring ways to advance their teaching or learning new methods in a specific area. The Master Class is led by a “Master Instructor” who has been identified as an expert on the topic.

The Master Class Series

Keep Teaching!

Visit the Office of the Provost's Keep Teaching website for helpful tips on navigating the challenges of remote and hybrid teaching. Teaching Strategies, Tools and Resources provides you with strategies, tools and resources to develop or modify your course. Blackboard Basics guides you in working with the universities learning management system. While the Training and Support section directs you to assistance with academic continuity through webinars, workshops and one-on-one and group consultations. Faculty can also work directly with a member of CTE's Instructional Design Team.

The Hyflex Model- An Effective Approach to Teaching with Numerous Modalities

In the Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) model for course delivery, faculty teach a class in multiple modalities simultaneously: face-to-face, online synchronous, and online asynchronous. The HyFlex Course Delivery: A Practical Guide resource is designed to provide faculty with recommendations on how to navigate this model in a simple and efficient manner while creating an equitable learning environment for everyone.

The Hyflex Model- An Effective Approach to Teaching with Numerous Modalities

Adapting Large Undergraduate Courses

There are multiple ways to adapt large enrollment classes to provide safety and social distancing. All large course delivery models will differ in effectiveness, feasibility, and implementation options depending on the type of course and pedagogy style being used. Learn how to start and what steps to take on our Adapting Large Undergraduate Courses website.

Adapting Large Undergraduate Courses

Virtual Reality in a Changing World

In these unprecedented times, many have been forced to adapt or expand their ways of teaching. This period of change can be used to explore areas of teaching that one has never ventured into. The world of virtual reality has become increasingly popular and could serve as an engaging and informative tool to utilize in online courses and remote settings.

Virtual Reality in a Changing World

Creating a Home Video Studio

The transition to remote teaching has forced many of us to host classes and meetings, and to record classes at home. Here are some simple tips that can improve the quality of your presentation so that your students and colleagues will be more focused on what you say than on where you are.

Creating a Home Video Studio

CTE Has Resources to Help You Keep Teaching

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many faculty to redesign their courses in order to transition to remote teaching. It can be difficult to implement such a drastic change halfway through the semester, especially for those who have always preferred face-to-face instruction. With remote teaching continuing through the summer term, the instructional designers at the Center for Teaching Excellence are prepared to help faculty every step of the way.

CTE Has Resources to Help You Keep Teaching

The Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning invites proposals from full- time faculty and instructors who have completed or who are currently completing the Integrative and Experiential Learning Certificate to apply for Supporting Undergraduates Through Integrative and Experiential Learning Grants. The goal of the grants is to develop, implement and assess instructional materials or approaches that integrate within and beyond the classroom experiences to achieve course or program learning outcomes.

The University of South Carolina has made a commitment to providing accessible content in all of our digital spaces. Accessible digital content helps those with disabilities, yes. But it also creates better, richer digital experiences for all. Make the newly launched Digital Accessibility website your go-to for learning the specifics of digital accessibility and how to provide content that’s accessible. Visit Guides and Tutorials for easy, straightforward steps for creating accessible digital content in your everyday work. Also check out Roles and Responsibilities to learn what aspects of digital accessibility apply to your role, where you can find help, and how to ensure effective accessibility-related decision-making.

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