Digital Fundamentals for Teaching and Learning
2 Cohort Sections are offered per semester; please see below for details.
- Cohort 1 Begins on January 27, 2025
- Cohort 2 Begins on March 31, 2025
Instructors: Tom Cantu, Michele Knight
Blackboard and other learning management systems are essential for communication, information, assessment, course design, and supporting learning and student success.
The Digital Fundamentals for Teaching and Learning course assists educators in developing skills for effectively using Blackboard in a face-to-face or remote teaching environment.
Learning Outcomes:
- Apply Blackboard tools to establish an active online presence.
- Adapt your course for Digital Teaching in alignment with best practices for the discipline.
- Use Blackboard tools to evaluate student learning while considering alternative assessment techniques.
- Utilize appropriate video conferencing software to promote student engagement.
- Explore multimedia technology for use in the digital classroom.
Series Elements:
The Digital Fundamentals for Teaching and Learning course will take five weeks. The course is completed as a cohort, with faculty expected to begin on the defined start date, keep pace with weekly activities, participate in discussion activities, and complete a fully functional Blackboard course with two working modules by the course’s end date.
Weekly course topics include:
- Navigating Blackboard
- Building Blackboard Content
- Using Web Conferencing software in Blackboard
- Assessing Student Performance Using Blackboard
- Developing and Using Multimedia for Blackboard
Upon completing the course, participants will create a working Blackboard teaching site highlighting instructor presence, multimedia elements to promote student engagement, and other elements taught throughout the course.
Please note:
- This course is not intended for those who have previously completed Digital Fundamentals or Structured Remote Teaching Training (offered in 2020).
- This course is required for all full and part-time instructors at MC.
- Faculty who cannot register for the course within five days of the start date must register for the next available section.
- Participants can be dropped from DFTL without penalty if done within the first week of the start date