Center for Teaching Excellence

New Comprehensive, Student-Centered Quality Standards for Online Courses

The Quality Standards for Online Courses (QSOC) were developed to provide UofSC faculty, graduate teaching assistants (GTA/GIAs), and support staff a new set of quality standards for the design, revision, and review of online courses.

New Comprehensive, Student-Centered Quality Standards for Online Courses

Five GTA/GIAs Awarded Teaching Resource Development Grants

GTA/GIA's Rochelle Altman, Camryn Garrett, Olivia Darr Weakland, Shea Ferguson, and Chihchi (Sunny) Tsai, were awarded grants for the development of instructional materials, modules, cross-curriculum assessments, online learning innovations, or other resources that will enhance the quality and depth of undergraduate student learning at the University of South Carolina.

Five GTA/GIAs Awarded Teaching Resource Development Grants

Grantees Integrate Virtual Reality Technology into Exemplary Courses

The Center for Teaching Excellence awarded grants to three faculty for the revision or development of exemplary courses to integrate virtual environments technology (virtual reality, augmented reality, and/or 360^o video). The goal of these grants is to invest in the continuous quality improvement of courses taught by faculty who provide students with exemplary, highly engaging courses, offered either in an online, blended, or traditional format—utilizing virtual technology.

Grantees Integrate Virtual Reality Technology into Exemplary Courses

Faculty Win Grants for Development of Winter Session Online Courses

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), in collaboration with the Office of On Your Time Initiatives (OYT), awarded four faculty members grants for the development or revision of exemplary undergraduate online courses for Winter Session 2023. The grant award winners will develop or revise fully online asynchronous courses.

Faculty Win Grants for Development of Winter Session Online Courses

Five Innovative Faculty Honored with 2022 Garnet Apple Teaching Award

The Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation honors UofSC's exceptional faculty who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to best teaching practices and an ongoing record of developing innovative strategies to enhance student learning in their courses. Five recipients received this year’s award and are to be commended for their accomplishments.

Five Innovative Faculty Honored with 2022 Garnet Apple Teaching Award

New UofSC Membership Reflects Commitment to Quality Online Teaching and Learning

UofSC is now a member of the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). The OLC is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators dedicated to improving best practices for quality online learning and programs. The organization focuses on advancing quality online teaching and learning experiences designed to reach and engage the modern learner – anyone, anywhere, anytime.

New UofSC Membership Reflects Commitment to Quality Online Teaching and Learning

The events in CTE's Fall 2022 Events Calendar allow participants to explore a broad range of topics whether you are a veteran or a novice teacher. Most sessions are facilitated by veteran faculty from UofSC and are designed to be highly interactive. Keep the Fall 2022 Events Calendar [pdf] close at hand so that you will know about CTE workshops and events. Professional development opportunities listed on the electronic Events Calendar are hyperlinked to the appropriate registration or program web page.

The Center for Teaching Excellence is pleased to announce that the 13th Annual Oktoberbest: A Symposium on Teaching will be Friday, October 21, 2022. Share your passion for teaching and innovative approaches that improve the quality of student learning experiences by Submitting a Proposal to Present at Oktoberbest 2022. We are seeking engaging and informative presentations on best instructional practices, effective teaching and learning experiences, and/or innovative assessment methods that speak to academic quality as a driver of student success.

Are you a graduate student who is new to online learning or interested in teaching an online course? Would you like to boost your teaching credentials and learn new instructional skills? Teaching Online for Graduate Students, a four-week, fully online asynchronous course, will introduce you to online teaching and develop your knowledge and ability to implement and teach online courses at the University of South Carolina and throughout your career as an educator.

For instructors teaching in the online environment, using technology is a given. Even so, utilizing the full potential of technology is an important component of well-designed courses. The focus of Technology for Online Teaching and Learning, a 6-week online course, is on integrating technology for online course delivery to transform learning environments. As students in this asynchronous online Blackboard course, instructors are introduced to the how’s, when’s and why’s of technology use in the online learning environment.

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