Online Education Faculty Resource Center

The faculty, staff and resources of the Online Education department, in collaboration with the C³ Teaching and Learning Center, Professional Development Program, MiraCosta Instructional Designer Nadia Khan, and Peer Support Online Mentor Faculty, provide MiraCosta College instructors with online instructional technologies, course development assistance, workshops, and customized online education support.

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Essential Requirements and Support for Faculty Teaching Online at MiraCosta

All faculty teaching online at MiraCosta should:

Be proficient with Canvas (and, if teaching a scheduled online class, with Zoom)
Complete the required 3-hour Online Compliance course on accessibility, copyright, and FERPA/privacy
Become familiar with the MiraCosta Online Class Quality Guidelines and complete the self-certification checklist based on the requirements stated in the Guidelines. The following recorded workshops (each one hour) from Jan. 2022 explain the 10 items on the checklist:
- Meeting Basic Requirements of MiraCosta’s Online Class Quality Guidelines and the Self-Certification Checklist (Items 1, 2, 6, 8, 9)
- Ensuring Regular Effective Contact Between Instructor and Students Online (Item 3)
- Ensuring Regular Effective Contact Among Students Online (Item 4)
- Facilitating Equity, Success, and Academic Integrity by Proactively Supporting Students Online (Items 5 & 10)
- Meeting Accessibility Requirements for Online Classes (Item 7)

(Details on the compliance course and self-checklist requirements may be reviewed in the current MiraCosta full-time and associate faculty contracts.)

Ongoing Support Opportunities for Faculty

reviewing the MiraCosta DE Handbook, the MiraCosta Online Class Quality Guidelines, and an ever-growing Canvas course which includes MiraCosta faculty examples of how they have put the online class quality guidelines into practice in Canvas
contacting the MiraCosta Instructional Designer, Nadia Khan, for more in-depth assistance with course design and teaching (email: nkhan@miracosta.edu or set an appointment on her calendar)
reviewing the weekly online teaching challenges set up in spring 2022 by MiraCosta peer mentor faculty and our instructional designer
contacting a MiraCosta Online Mentor for peer faculty assistance through May 2022 (open the link, select one that looks like a good fit, and email them)
contacting 24×7 Canvas support for faculty (by phone: 1-833-345-2890, or through live chat accessed from the Tech Help button in Canvas)
attending a live webinar or reviewing recordings and resources from MiraCosta online technology providers, including:
- Perusall (social annotation)
- PlayPosit (tools for activities and assessment embedded within videos)
- Respondus 4.0 (managing test banks and moving them into/out of Canvas)
contacting a member of the Online Education team (send them an email)
checking out the Online Ed Workshop archives for access to numerous recordings of previous Online Education workshops at MiraCosta
taking a multi-week online teaching course from @ONE (exclusively for California Community College faculty)

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