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The Teaching Online Preparation Toolkit (TOPkit) website is a comprehensive resource that
provides the postsecondary community with the essential elements required to ensure a very
high quality online faculty development program, including a sample course that may be imported
into any learning management system and then customized. The links below walk you through a
three-step process for planning,
developing, and evaluating
your program along with supporting resources.
While this initiative is Florida funded and Florida focused, it is not Florida exclusive and we invite you, our colleagues around the world, to explore the TOPkit website and actively participate in its accompanying community of practice.
To learn more about this site and its contributors, please read About Us.
While this initiative is Florida funded and Florida focused, it is not Florida exclusive and we invite you, our colleagues around the world, to explore the TOPkit website and actively participate in its accompanying community of practice.
To learn more about this site and its contributors, please read About Us.
We provide decision guides to help you assess your institutional direction,
and offer examples of faculty development models benchmarked from other institutions.
This area contains checklists & rubrics; a customizable sample faculty development course;
tools, techniques, & strategies; and, covers UDL and legal considerations as you move forward in program creation.
Resources and tips are provided to assess program quality, along with identifying potential data
sources available on your campus.
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Contact-Hour Replacement: How to avoid becoming a correspondence course?
by
Joseph S. Clark
1 week, 1 day ago -
Faculty Development: The Secret Ingredient for Success
by
Amanda Major
3 weeks, 1 day ago -
Article: "Ride the Wave of [Quality] Online Teaching With Us"
by
Amber C. Lee
3 weeks, 5 days ago -
Article: "Mobile Device Takeover"
by Amber C. Lee
3 weeks, 5 days ago
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Don’t Wait to Go Deeper: Cultivating Higher Thinking in Beginning Classes (Issue 10)
by
ADDIE
1 month ago -
Online Instructor Checklist of Actions
by
Kip Pygman
3 weeks, 5 days ago
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- Robin Donaldson, Ph.D. (Chair)
- Assistant Director, Member Research and Services
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- Victoria Brown, Ed.D.
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- Deb Miller, Ed.D.
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- mpetroski@lynn.edu
- Kendall St. Hilaire, M.S.
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- ksthilai@irsc.edu
- Vicki Westergard
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