Competencies for Online and Hybrid/Blended Instruction

Last revised: 04/09/2025  by jap

Overview:

What skills does an instructor need to succeed with an online or hybrid course? The UConn Competencies for Online and Hybrid/Blended Instruction survey includes 27 competencies to inform and facilitate self-assessment. The second edition takes into account developments in higher education since the COVID pandemic.

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Tips for Online Proctoring with ProctorU

Last revised: 4/7/2025 by DSM

Overview

These are some tips to help make the online proctoring process run more smoothly and provide the best student experience as possible.

PLEASE NOTE: ProctorU is an online exam proctoring service available to eCampus designed courses with UConn students formally enrolled listed as ONLINE in StudentAdmin (usually OA).  This post addresses setting up a faculty ProctorU account for use with your UConn ONLINE course(s).

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Design: Using a Course Design Plan

Last revised: 02/13/2025 by jap

Overview:

This article introduces using a course design plan for the design phase of the instructional design model ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) and how it can help meet alignment principles of Quality Matters’ Standards for Course Design.

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Using Data to Inform Online Teaching

Last modified 09/01/2022 by TJS.

Overview

Data can help inform instructional decisions.  HuskyCT has a number of data collection and reporting tools for instructor use. In addition, media tools, such as YouTube, Mediasite, and Kaltura often have data reporting features.

This post addresses the following questions you may have as an instructor.

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