The Ecampus Faculty Forum is an annual showcase of excellence in online teaching that features interactive discussions on how Oregon State University applies its academic prestige to the world of online education.

Nearly 250 Oregon State faculty and staff attend the event every year. It's the ideal event for faculty who are interested in teaching online for the first time or those who want to enhance their skill set. Come watch and listen as your OSU colleagues share their innovative teaching methods and relate their experiences in course development.

Read this story and watch the video to learn more about the annual event.

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Recorded sessions from the 2018 Faculty Forum | SlideDeck

• 2018 Extended Campus Award Winners
• Show-and-tell: Creative media assignments
• Raising the bar with classroom democracy: Peer review strategies
• Rubrics for success
• The Learning Glass: Create lectures like you've never seen
• Textbook costs hurt students. Here's how we fix the problem
• Form connections with students by making the virtual personal
• Group projects: How to help students bridge the distance
• Shaping online education through research
• Left brain, meet right brain: Creative approaches to technical subjects
• Send students out there to learn in the community
• Active learning through creative assessment
• What's your pedagogical approach?
• Discussion boards: Try some next-level tactics
• Get active! Get adaptive!
• A student's road to success is not a solo journey

Recorded sessions from the 2017 Faculty Forum | SlideDeck

• Lunch welcome from Ed Ray
• Breakfast and welcome
• Variety is the spice of life: Assorted discussion prompts for engaging online learners
• Be wise: Integrate writing assignments and the OWL into your course
• Storyline: The go-to tool for creating interactive activities
• Teaching field skills online: The great mystery of our time
• Maximizing accessibility in Canvas with Readspeaker and UDOIT
• The best use of video to make course content come alive
• Bridging the gap: Advising students from a distance
• Shaping the world of online education through research
• Get students up, moving and learning away from their computers
• The importance of reflection in active learning
• A look under the hood: Redeveloping your online course

Recorded sessions from the 2016 Faculty Forum | SlideDeck

• A guide to designing projects that engage online learners
• Smorgasbord of Integrating Educational Learning Tools
• Program Management: inking about an online degree or certificate program?
• Online tools that will make your life & students’ lives easier
• Group work: How to help students bridge the distance
• Turnitin: Ensuring academic integrity in your course
• Using rubrics to improve teaching and learning
• QM impact: Do students notice quality in online courses?
• Biology labs online? It’s a 3-D virtual reality
• How to generate & facilitate enriching discussions online
• Students speak: What it’s like to learn online at OSU
• Canvas analytics: A deep drill into the new LMS
• Enrich your Ecampus class... AND your students by using open educational resources (OERs)
• Innovative teaching: A showcase of hybrid courses

Recorded sessions from the 2015 Faculty Forum

• Meet Today's Adult Learner - Faculty Forum 2015 Keynote
• Tips for creating great video in your course
• Improving your course with accessibility
• Active learning that yields real-world results
• Developing an online course? Start here
• Here's how Quality Matters improved my class
• Rethinking the lecture
• Make multimedia a reality in your course
• No, really – affordable textbooks have arrived
• Students speak: The online learning experience
• Span the globe with group work that works
• Managing large enrollment courses
• Creative approaches to online discussions
• Innovative teaching: A showcase of hybrid courses
• Labs online? Chemists do it, and so can you

Missed out on the Ecampus Test Kitchen? Get your own copy of the recipes.

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Previously recorded sessions

Some sessions from previous forums were recorded and can be viewed below.

 

 

Additional resources

• QM Online Course Design
• Ecampus Course Development and Training blog
• Online Education Trends

Previous Faculty Forums

• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010