Online Learning Advisory Committee Online Learning Community

• Empower faculty to create and deliver high quality hybrid and online courses that are customized to the needs of their learners
• Provide faculty with experience as an online student via activities and materials in a Canvas site
• Share best practices for teaching and learning online, including how to transform your face-to-face course into an online or hybrid course, and how to make your course digitally accessible
• Develop faculty expertise in creating online course assets
• Share The I Can Design for Online as a structure for creating a high-quality online or hybrid course 
• Help to shape CWRU’s strategy around online learning by providing your feedback on processes, procedures, and faculty resources

Participants will be expected to:

1. Enroll in the OLC Canvas site, review learning materials to prepare for workshops, and participate in asynchronous activities between workshops.
2. Attend all the workshops (1-2 per month, December-May, and August). If you cannot attend a workshop, you will need to do make-up work. 
3. Design and develop a course to be taught online or hybrid in the Fall of 2023 or Spring of 2024.
4. Submit your completed course for a Quality Review before it is taught.
5. Meet between workshops with your TLT ID partner to discuss your specific course, goals, and milestones.
6. Create, and stick to, a timeline with milestones to design and develop an online or hybrid course by the end of the OLC.
7. Present what you've learned to your department.
8. Participate in a university-wide event about online teaching/learning in Fall 2023.
9. Help to shape CWRU’s strategy around online learning by providing your feedback on processes, procedures, and faculty resources.

OLC fellows who successfully complete the requirements of the learning community will receive a stipend of $5000 to be paid at the completion of OLC. In addition, participants will receive funding to support making content accessible.