Elevating Your Online Teaching Journey Workshops

How often do instructors have the opportunity to discuss their online teaching experiences with their peers? The Elevating Your Online Teaching Journey workshops are designed to help instructors pause and focus on a specific online course—whether it’s one you’re developing for the first time or one you’ve taught for years. 

Through hands-on virtual workshops, attendees will engage with peers to explore the complexities of online teaching and learning. The Purdue University Online instructional design team will present evidence-based practices for online teaching and lead instructors in thoughtful dialogue about those practices. Together, each instructor will explore and select new strategies to help transform their online course. 

Below is the schedule for our current lineup of sessions. Please sign up for the session(s) that interest you! 

Creating Effective Content for Online Learners

What is the best way to create effective online content? In this workshop, you will be provided with best practices for creating multimedia. Further, you will participate in a guided activity that will help you begin creating a media plan for your online course. Consider signing up for this workshop if you are interested in any of the following: 

  • Aligning content to learning objectives 
  • Being intentional about video use 
  • Media planning 
  • Video recording tools available at Purdue 
  • Video captioning 
  • Estimating time-on-task

Wednesday, April 22 10:00 – 11:00 AM – Register 

Thursday, April 23 1:00 – 2:00 PM – Register  

Motivating Online Learners

What is the best way to motivate learners online? In this workshop, you will learn about factors that can strongly influence learner motivation. This includes, but is not limited to, the following: 

  • Conducting a learner analysis 
  • Building your “instructor presence” 
  • Balancing workload 
  • Building learners’ confidence 
  • Building learners’ satisfaction 

Coming Fall 2026! 

Assessing Online Learners

What is the best way to assess learners online? This session focuses on course alignment. This means assessments should meaningfully measure the course outcomes. Consider signing up for this workshop if you are interested in any of the following: 

  • Visualizing how course outcomes and assessments align 
  • Facilitating discussion boards 
  • Providing meaningful feedback to learners 
  • Discussing AI policy examples  
  • Using AI to design assessments 
  • Being more intentional about the rollout of course projects or major assignments  

Coming Fall 2026!