Farewell to Gail Morong
To paraphrase Gail’s retirement speech: “Work will come and work will go; what matters in the end is to love each other and treat each other right.“
To paraphrase Gail’s retirement speech: “Work will come and work will go; what matters in the end is to love each other and treat each other right.“
Our online courses often include the Student Cafe, which is an ungraded discussion area intended to encourage peer-to-peer interactions, foster or enhance student engagement, and build a learning community. Sounds great, but I wonder sometimes how many students post to the Student Cafe? Do they find it useful? Open Learning students often start a course at…
Word files of the Course Guide template and the Open Learning Faculty Member template are available in O drive, 4 Editing Resources. Feel free to share the Word templates as a time-saver for developers. It may be quicker to fill-in or revise sections in a Word file compared to copying the information from this site…
Welcome to our newest team member, Cory, and welcome back to Carolyn. Goodbye for now to D-L, who will be sharing her expertise and passion with the Marketing team for a term period.
*** UPDATED July 2021: This list is constantly changing, and will be maintained in the future by Danielle Collins on her OneTRU OLEditor page at one.tru.ca. We list course developers on the copyright pages of courses. OL style was updated in May 2018 to: Do not use periods between letters in degree acronyms. Include the…
This post captures changes to our editorial house style following a meeting on Feb. 9, 2018. Attributions and Credit Lines Attributions in a course might appear in a resources list (at the beginning of the module), in the learning activity that assigns the reading or media (within the module), in a title page (created…
Where possible, we try to include examples of people from other cultures or depictions of the diversity of Canadian society in the course. Showing people from diverse backgrounds prepares students for life in a culturally diverse society and helps dispel preconceived ideas about others, which we hope increases the students’ competence for living in an…