Join COLRS staff at the Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium on November 8th. Registration is free!
COLRS will present at 2:30 p.m. on "Quality Assurance Tools for Accessible Canvas Content."
Get ready for an exciting film screening event that will take you on a thrilling journey into the world of artificial intelligence! Join us for a special screening of The Thinking Game, a captivating documentary that offers an unprecedented look inside Google DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI research labs!
Dr. Stokes (and his students) will share his experience with a transformative approach to teaching an upper-level biology elective, Plant-Animal Interactions, where student-led teaching has served as the cornerstone for engagement and learning.
The inaugural Towards Online Excellence: Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium is designed for educators, administrators, instructional designers, and technologists involved in online learning. Illinois thought leaders and practitioners with expertise in online teaching and learning will discuss the latest trends in online education, from innovative pedagogy to emerging technology.
Join the Office of Digital Accessibility and Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service to learn about the requirements for creating closed captions and how to add captions to a video in Kaltura Media, the UIS streaming video platform.
Join the Office of Digital Accessibility and Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service to learn about creating accessible web links in Microsoft Word and Canvas courses.
Join Dr. Bethany Bilyeu, Executive Director of Student Support Services, for an informative session on how to support mental health on campus. Mental health issues are on the rise and this training session will provide you with the basic skills to respond to a person in need. This session will also cover the process of addressing and supporting student mental health.
Join us for an insightful workshop focused on effective strategies for engaging online students. Dr. Serkan Karadas, recipient of the 2024 Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award, will share practical approaches he uses to foster interaction, participation, and engagement in his finance and economics courses. From utilizing videos and surveys to incorporating experiential learning opportunities, Dr. Karadas will provide actionable techniques you can implement in your own online teaching.
Explore ways to increase interactivity and engagement within your online courses, while also meeting federal regulations for distance education. Regular and substantive interaction (RSI) is a federal requirement for all online courses that distinguishes “distance education” from “correspondence education.” Come and learn what constitutes RSI and how you can build RSI into your courses to increase interactivity and engagement.
In October, the Office of Digital Accessibility (ODA) and COLRS will share an accessibility tip on writing and including alternative text for images in Microsoft Word and Canvas content.
Join us to learn about creating useful alt text for images.