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The purpose of the newsletter is to share innovations and resources in online learning throughout the UH system, highlighting upcoming professional development opportunities, events, and latest news.
It’s a new academic year! We hope that you were able to take some time this summer to relax, self-care, and rejuvenate. Summer has flown by quickly and we’ve enjoyed working closely with the 2022 UH Online PD Program: Reimagining Online Learning cohorts to collectively increase quality online teaching and learning across the UH system.
We look forward to a new academic year filled with impactful programming and collaborations that will continually improve upon online teaching and learning. What are you looking forward to as the semester begins? What transformations might you engage in to further improve upon student learning outcomes? Wishing you inspiration and a wonderful semester!
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Updates to the UHOIC Team
As the fall semester begins, let’s welcome a few newcomers to ITS and our team. Our new Director for Online Learning, Gloria Niles, Ph.D., is a seasoned educational leader devoted to advancing teaching and technology through an intersectional lens. She transitions into her new role with the UH System from her former position as Director of Distance Education at UH West Oʻahu.
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 “Having worked closely with the UHOIC team on several projects as a member of the Instructional Design Professional Learning Community (ID PLC) in my previous position, I value the significance of the services, professional development, and resources UHOIC provides for faculty and staff across the UH System. I am honored to lead and support the continued development of Online Learning across the University of Hawai'i System, and strengthen the impact of the UHOIC. Collaborative partnerships between faculty and instructional designers leads to high quality, innovative learning experiences for all UH students.” - Gloria Niles |
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Additionally, we welcome two more members to the team who are both alumni of the UHM College of Education’s Learning Design and Technology Program. Johnny Zhou, our former Graduate Assistant, has returned to join the team as an Instructional Designer. Demi Yoshimoto, a Hawaiʻi Department of Education teacher, will be working part-time as an Instructional Designer. To learn more about them, reference our About Us page.
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 Lastly, a special mahalo nui to Hae Okimoto, Ph.D., our dedicated leader who retired after 38 years at UH. We wish her a happy and well-deserved retirement!
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Welina mai to the incoming H5P + Laulima cohort (2022-2023)!
Expanding upon a successful pilot program last year, the newly accepted cohort applicants will now be joining returning participants in exploring and creating H5P interactives to further engage and impact student learning experiences. We are pleased to welcome a combined 82 faculty from all ten campuses across the system to the 2022-2023 H5P + Laulima cohort! A number of participating faculty/staff have already begun preparing for the semester by participating in an informal virtual office hour session on Aug. 10. The H5P + Laulima Support Team looks forward to meeting everyone synchronously at the H5P + Laulima Orientation on Sept. 9.
For more information, visit the H5P + Laulima Program webpage. You may also be interested in taking a look at the diverse examples shared by faculty and staff from across the UH system in the H5P Interactives Library.
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New Collaborations
We are truly blessed to have engaged in numerous collaborations with wonderful colleagues throughout the UH system and beyond over the years, including the UH ID Professional Learning Community, Office of the Vice President for Community Colleges, Hawaiʻi P-20, and the Hawaiʻi Department of Education, to name a few.
New collaborations this semester include Leeward and Honolulu Community Colleges, expanding access to the UH Online PD Program: Reimagining Online Learning curricula and instructional design support for more faculty interested in developing and teaching 8-week accelerated online courses.
Another new effort emerged from the Equity Through “Intentional” Course Design webinar offered in Spring 2022. A professional development opportunity focusing on equity is currently being planned for this 2022-2023 academic year with guest presenter Truc Nguyen (UHM College of Education, Curriculum Research & Development Group) and Wendy Pearson (UHM Office of the Provost). Stay tuned as we will have more details to share in the upcoming months!
 Got any innovative ideas that would contribute to improving online learning at UH or have interest in collaborating with our team? Email us at uhoic@hawaii.edu.
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2022 UH Excellence in Teaching Faculty Panel: Online Strategies, Tips, and Lessons Learned
(Friday, Sept. 16, 10:00-11:30 a.m.)
 Each year, the UH Board of Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching is awarded to faculty members who “exhibit an extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity, and personal values that benefit students.” Join this webinar to gain some online teaching strategies and tips from four of the 2022 awardees across different disciplines.
Registration: http://go.hawaii.edu/2GD
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For more information on future events/webinars, visit our Upcoming Events page. To view our past webinar resources, visit the Archived Webinar Resources section on our Resources page.
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Professional Learning & Development (L&D) Event Submission Form
Do you have an online teaching and learning-related professional L&D opportunity you’d like to advertise on the UHOIC website’s All Upcoming Events page? Submit the details using the Professional L&D Event Submission form.
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Congratulations to the 2022 UHOPD cohort!
Hoʻomaikaʻi (Congratulations) to the 2022 UH Online Professional Development (UHOPD) cohort! For the first time, two cohorts participated in the UHOPD course together (Early College and Accelerated cohorts) and it has been a whirlwind of a journey! The two cohorts worked very hard in Phase 2 of the program, participating in the synchronous sessions and designing/developing their 5, 8, and 16-week online courses in just five weeks' time.
They are now deep into Phase 3 where system and campus instructional designers are working collaboratively with faculty to route their developed courses through the UH Online Quality Course Design Review process in order to continue providing consistent, standards-based online courses across the UH system. Mahalo for the memories!
Caption: Our creative 2022 cohort sharing their “one word” summing up their UHOPD course experiences!
Watch the 2022 UHOPD Highlight Reel for an overview of the UHOPD sync sessions!
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Kapiʻolani Summer Camp Presentation
 With technology slowly taking over our personal and professional lives, do you sometimes find it difficult to find time to “unplug?” Our UHOIC team presented at the 2022 Kapiʻolani Summer Camp, sharing some of their go-to activities to help temporarily take our minds off of work and digitally unplug. To find out more, view the Find Your Happy Place: Simple Activities for Health & Well-Being (Google Slides) presentation. With the start of a new semester, it’s also a good time to set up some self-care and wellness goals.
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Building Empathy/Feedback
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Did you know that UHOIC has leveraged researched best practices along with faculty, instructional designer, and even student feedback to build a library of templates for faculty (and staff) with their online teaching and learning? There are a variety of templates available to support the course design and development process, including:
- Course Map templates (Google Doc or Google Sheet) - Use this template to build out the foundational structure of your course and easily view the alignments of your learning objectives, materials, activities, and assessments/assignments.
- Course Design Document Template - “Prep” your course content in this template which mirrors the structure of the Laulima Course template. Write up all of your instructional text, link up images, videos, and other external resources for easier copy/paste transfer into your Laulima course site.
- Laulima Course Templates (Google Form; 5-Week, 8-Week, 16-Week, and Summer formats available) - Provide a consistent Laulima experience with a template that leverages best practices in online course design, with customized visual design theming based on your home campus, and revised with feedback obtained by faculty and students.
- Course Syllabus Template - Utilize a standardized template with recommended sections and instructional text guiding faculty on relevant content that contributes to student success in online courses.
These templates strategically weave together to support best practices in designing and developing an online course. All the templates (and more) are posted on the UHOIC website (Resources > UH Online Templates).
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 We want to hear from you! Is there a particular template you’d like us to work on improving or creating next? Please share your suggestions with us via this poll. |
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Aʻo Aku, Aʻo Mai (To Teach, To Learn)
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Accessibility Tips
This summer, a recent 8 Habits for Highly Accessible Course Content PD was offered as a cross-collaborative effort by members of the UH ID Professional Learning Community (PLC), along with other faculty and student staff across the UH system.
Here is one of the many tips shared:
Reference the Accessibility at UH: Creating Accessible Content webpage for more information.
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Research Corner
With the shift to remote learning during the pandemic, one might question whether fully online courses should continue to be offered.
A recent 2022 Digital Learning Pulse Survey on student preferences for post-pandemic academic experiences (Bayview Analytics, 2022) shows a growing number of students preferring online courses. From Fall 2021 to Spring 2022, student preference for online courses rose 8% (from 68% to 76%).
Have students expressed the same preference in your courses? For additional details, visit the OLC website.
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Tech Tips: Embedding iFrame in Laulima
With the growing concerns about internet privacy and security, web browsers (e.g., Chrome, Firefox) have progressively been upping their default security measures. For those using Laulima, embedding items using iFrames (external tools like YouTube, Quizlet, Flip, Padlet, etc.) will have increased challenges accessing content via embedded 3rd party sources in the near future (if not already).
Here are some approaches to ensure students can access the content:
- Underneath the embedded item, provide a direct link to the source as a backup.
- Insert a screenshot of the third-party content, then hyperlink the screenshot to the source (open in new tab/window).
- Add a link to the external site on the left course menu (via Site Info > Manage Tools > Web Content).
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About Us
Information Technology Services (ITS) UHOIC is located in the Information Technology Center building at UH Mānoa campus. Faculty and staff throughout the UH system can receive personalized support with their online course(s) by scheduling instructional design consultations.
Our Mission
The UHOIC instructional design (ID) team provides impactful ID support to strengthen the quality of online initiatives across the UH system in service to UH, faculty, staff, administrators, and students. |
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