No one really knows what is to come for Fall 2020. Will social distancing work on campus? Will courses have to go fully online again? What we do know is that we need to be ready for anything. It’s exhausting to think about. The mid-semester shift to fully online courses in Spring was disorienting and…
We’re excited to launch our new Instructional Design Team Newsletter! We’ll be reaching out to faculty and staff from time to time with tips, tools, tricks, and opportunities to help enhance instruction. If you don’t get the newsletter – or just want to revisit it -, we’ll be posting the contents of it here on…
The Instructional Design team is excited to get started with their second cohort of Teaching Online with La Salle participants. The course is designed to acclimate instructors to the unique demands of an online learning environment. It covers areas such as designing an online course, developing content, using Canvas tools, and building an effective syllabus. Online teaching…
This week, over 100 La Salle educators came together for two days to learn, discuss, and continue improving classroom instruction for students. The 5th Annual Summer Institute included a diversity of topics and interactive workshops, where professors became the students and learned new tools and strategies for the classroom. The first day of the Institute primarily focused on…
La Salle Instructional Design is happy to announce that Dylan Fenton has become the newest member of their team! After saying goodbye to Jessica Morris and welcoming Alicia Sinha-Thomas, he will be the third member of this growing department. Dylan comes to us from the secondary classroom where he taught high school English for six…
After 5 years at La Salle University, we bid farewell to Instructional Designer, Jessica Morris. She has moved on to an exciting opportunity at Penn and we wish her the very best of luck. Before she left, she assisted in welcoming and transitioning our new Instructional Designer, Alicia Sinha-Thomas. Alicia started in December after leaving…
