Events

Info Sessions for the Online Course Toolkit

Get your online course ready to launch! In this series, the Online Education and Educational Technology (OEET) team will introduce specific components of our Online Course Toolkit and demonstrate their alignment with Butler’s required online standards, which reflect Quality Matters Essential Standards (the three-point standards addressed in this rubric).

After these sessions, you will be able to:

  1. Design and structure online courses that align with Butler’s standards and Quality Matters Essential Standards, ensuring a cohesive and high-quality learning experience.
  2. Incorporate best practices for accessibility, technology integration, and student engagement to create an inclusive and interactive online learning environment.
  3. Effectively align learning outcomes, assessments, and instructional materials to ensure that course objectives are clearly communicated and measurable, supporting student success.

Standard 5: Learner Activities and Interaction
Date: Thursday, December 5, at 2:00 PM

Standard 7: Learner Support
Date: Tuesday, December 10, at 2:00 PM

Online Teaching Insights Series (OTIS)

The Online Teaching Insights Series (OTIS) is designed to provide ongoing, structured support to faculty who have completed an initial orientation to online teaching and are teaching their first online course. These OTIS workshops and webinars are designed to addresses the unique challenges of teaching online by offering training, resources, and community for instructors to enhance their effectiveness in online instruction and to improve student outcomes.

In the Fall 2024, we are introducing OTIS as a pilot. Even if you have been teaching online for a while, you are welcome to participate if you would find this series beneficial.

Register for OTIS

The workshops and webinars below are a subset of the OTIS resources delivered to online faculty face throughout their first semester. If you would like to receive just-in-time OTIS resources, email us at oeet@butler.edu.

AI Ready: All Campus Essentials

This year, Butler University is participating in a program hosted by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) designed to foster learning, share resources, and increase effective adoption related to artificial intelligence (AI).

The first sessions begin weekly in September 2024 and will continue through July 2025, excluding December and May. This will provide a total of 36 hours of content organized into nine essential topics and tailored to different areas and roles on campus.

Program Goal

This program equips faculty, staff, and administrators with a foundational understanding of generative A.I. as it relates to rotating topics relevant to our campuses.

How the Network Runs

Each month will feature a set of four hour-long sessions (usually including an overview of generative AI, current practices in the field, insights from vendor partners, and taking next steps). The topic each month will change, but the format of these sessions will be very similar. We are excited to announce our topics for the Fall:

  • September 5-26: Admissions and Enrollment;
  • October 3-24: Advancement & Alumni;
  • October 31-November 21: Faculty – Tools for Personalized Learning.

CIC will have the weekly meetings on Thursdays at 2:00 pm EST. These meetings will be held in a virtual, synchronous format. Please note that CIC does not plan to post recordings of the sessions.

Who Should Attend

We do not anticipate anyone attending every month, and few people attending multiple months.  We anticipate most staff would attend one month/one topic/one block of four meetings, with faculty persons attending a few different months. 

Register

Register for Personalized Learning (Nov.)
Register for Advancement & Alumni (Oct.)

Additional Training

Navigate to the Training page to watch prior training recordings, enroll in a self-paced course, register for upcoming live vendor trainings, and more.