The Office of Online Learning (OOL) will collaborate with faculty from Franklin, Terry, Family and Consumer Sciences, and Grady to create innovative online courses for Summer 2018. Course offerings will range from Statistical Software Programming to Communication Law.

During fall 2017, the online faculty fellows will work closely with the OOL instructional design team to plan their courses and in Spring create the instructional materials, assessments, assignments, and rubrics. Online course enrollment has increased significantly since the Online Learning Fellows program (OLF) began in 2013. Summer online course enrollments have increased from just over a 1,000 in 2013 to over 10,000 in summer 2017.

Joanna Smolko teaches History of Popular Music online and was a 2017 OLF. “What I found was that they [OOL] did solve the problems that I was concerned about, the community engagement as well as efficient grading, but I’ve also found that it inspired incredible creativity from the students,” said Smolko.

The schools and colleges in collaboration with the Office of Online Learning identifiy high demand courses that translate well for online delivery. The OOL provides online faculty fellows with focused assistance including media and scripting resources for developing online courses that increase engagement and availability to UGA students.

“The OLF has been a very positive experience” explains instructional designer, Stephen Bridges. “The faculty appreciate the help – especially those who may have never taught an online course before. The faculty members are the content experts; we help them design a course tailored to online delivery where their students can thrive.”

The courses include: