- Friday WOWs (WVC Online Workshops)
- @ONE webinars and courses
Did you hear the news that West Valley College has been POCR Certified? What this means is that WVC has shown it understands the high-quality standards for online course design and instruction set out by the CVC Course Design Rubric.
Many thanks to the 2021-2022 POCR faculty who helped make this happen: Syl Arena, Jess Lerma, Laura Plunkett, Serkuang Chen, Andy Cardamone, and Tejal Naik.
This year, we have a second cohort 2022-2023 POCR faculty who are pushing the POCR program forward with three more courses: Eva Maddox, Jamilya Ukudeeva, Tracy DeHaan, Gina Firenzi, and Jeanette Richey.
The POCR Academy is in response to many WVC faculty who have inquired about another course to build upon what they learned in the WVC Online Academy about online pedagogy and best practices. The POCR Academy can help faculty prepare their courses if they want to apply to the year-long POCR process of completely (100%!) aligning an online asynchronous course to the CVC Course Design Rubric and earning a Quality Reviewed badge for the course.
The POCR Academy consists of three 2-hour interactive online synchronous workshops that will review the four components of the CVC Course Design Rubric: Content Presentation, Interaction, Assessment and Accessibility. In the workshops, faculty will be presented with the elements of each component, approaches for analyzing online course design and content, and examples of what these approaches can look like when applied.
Faculty will have opportunities to practice applying some (not all) Rubric elements to make changes in their own courses, and they will be able to share their work with others (for ex., use of rubrics for an assignment). These opportunities will be available both during the workshops and in our shared WVC POCR Academy Canvas course shell.
Accessible syllabi for all courses at WVC, regardless of the modality of instruction, will be published within the course shell of the College’s learning management system (LMS). The syllabus can be posted within the course in a variety of formats including, but not limited to:
- As a page within the LMS (for ex., a Canvas course page)
- Use of a syllabus tool within the LMS (for ex., Canvas syllabus)
- A file uploaded into the course shell (for ex., a Word doc or pdf file)
- A link to a webpage or website posted within the course shell (for ex., link to a Google page)
Access to class and instructor information and dates for exams and projects is an important factor in reducing student stress and improving student retention, regardless of the course’s modality of instruction. Since this information is included in our course syllabi (if not, it should be!), providing students with access to syllabi throughout the semester is essential and posting the syllabus in a Canvas course shell is easy and only takes minutes.
Source: Guidelines for Student Access to Syllabi: WVC Policy on Access to Course Syllabi.
Do you need training to satisfy the requirement to teach online/hybrid? Per the WVMFT faculty contract, faculty scheduled to teach an online or hybrid course must either have:
- taught an online or hybrid course within the District prior to Spring 2015, or
- received approval from Office of Instruction. The Faculty Request for Approval to Teach Online/Hybrid form (along with documentation) is to be submitted in a single pdf file to wvc.onlineFREEWEST_VALLEY
Faculty teaching online (synchronous and asynchronous), hybrid or hyflex must have fulfilled the course requirement outlined in Article 51.
We are excited to start the Spring 2023 series of Friday WOWs (WVC Online Workshops), our one-hour workshops on online best practices and strategies, accessibility, Canvas tools and apps that can enhance student engagement, retention and success in your class.
While the topics for the workshops are being developed, be sure to hold the following days in your calendar:
Also note that recordings of previous Friday WOWs are housed in the WVC Online Faculty Resources Canvas course. If you’d like to join the more than 250 WVC faculty and staff who have accessed the information in the course, simply email wvc.onlineFREEWEST_VALLEY%2C Whitney%20Clay or Janis%20Kea.
| Topic | Dates | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| *Introduction to Teaching with Canvas | March 4 – April 1 May 27 – June 24 |
Free |
| *Introduction to Course Design | March 4 – April 1 April 29 – May 27 |
$85 |
| *Introduction to Asynchronous Online Teaching and Learning | February 11 – March 11 May 13 – June 10 |
$85 |
| Introduction to Live Online Teaching and Learning | March 11 – March 25 | $45 |
| Equity and Culturally Responsive Online Teaching | March 4 – April 1 May 20 – June 17 |
$85 |
| Creating Accessible Course Content | February 25 – March 25 June 3 – July 1 |
$85 |
| 10-10-10 Communication that Matters | April 22 – May 20 | $85 |
| Assessment in Digital Learning | February 11 – March 11 April 29 – May 27 |
$85 |
| Humanizing Online Teaching & Learning | April 1 – April 29 | $85 |
| Advanced Techniques with Canvas | February 4 – March 4 April 8 – May 6 |
$85 |
| Equitable Grading Strategies | February 18 – March 18 June 3 – July 1 |
$85 |
| *Online Teaching & Design | March 11 – June 3 | $255 |
Courses with * qualify for Article 51 training requirement. To register for a course or for more info on courses, go to @ONE course catalog.
@ONE also offers several FREE self-paced courses too!
- Accessibility Basics
- Intro to Designing for Accessibility
- Videocaptioning: Accessibility
- Popetech Instructor Accessibility Guide
- Introduction to Alternate Media
Contact the WVC Online Team
Max Gault
Academic Affairs
Instructional Technology Analyst
(408) 741-2627
[email protected]
Fox 214
Jennifer Keh
Language Arts, Social Science and WVC Online
Counselor
(408) 741-2592
[email protected]
LA/SS 2H
Whitney Clay
West Valley College Online
Instructional Designer
(408) 741-2619
[email protected]
Language Arts and Social Science 1B
Janis Kea
Economics
Professor, Economics
(408) 741-2538
[email protected]
LA/SS 2E
The WVC Online Faculty Resources Canvas course shell also has the video recordings of previous Friday WOWs, with links to resources that were shared at each session. If you don’t see this course on your Canvas Dashboard, just email the WVC%20Online%20team so that we can add you into the course shell.
To join 250+ of your colleagues in this Canvas group and access the collection of resources curated specifically for WVC instructors, email wvc.onlineFREEWEST_VALLEY