Mission: Designing online learning to advance those in Wisconsin and beyond
Vision: Be the premier statewide leader in online instructional design
By Kyle Sky
January 31, 2024
The UWEX Instructional Design team is always working to innovate and improve students’ learning experiences. Over the past year, Jessica O’Neel and Kyle Sky have been investigating H5P, an HTML-based tool for creating interactive learning objects. H5P allows instructional designers to quickly create content that can be dropped into the midst of a Canvas page, […]
By Jessica O'Neel
One of the unique services of developing courses with UWEX is access to our media team to create a variety of custom media for your course. As you develop or revise your course, you will collaborate with your instructional designer and a media team representative to brainstorm and create unique and engaging media. Below are some […]
Read More about Lights, Camera, Success: Elevate Your Course with UWEX Media.
By Laurie Berry
January 30, 2024
Introduction In their UW Flexible Option course Deviant Minds (CGS INT 281X), Profs. Jill Rinzel and Stephan Scholz produced a series of videos in which they sat down one-on-one to discuss how their fields of psychology and sociology, respectively, understand deviance. Adopting a conversational style, the instructors recorded overview videos in our in-house media studio, […]
Read More about Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Jill Rinzel and Dr. Stephan Scholz.
By Gaby Huebner-Noblitt
September 14, 2023
Our collaborative programs rely on teamwork and collaboration to produce and deliver high-quality and engaging courses for our students. In this article, we show how an instructor’s idea not only laid the groundwork for producing a great product but also gave us an opportunity to strengthen our team and have some fun along the way. […]
Read More about Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Dwight Swenson, the Collaborative Model, and a Field Trip.
By Jessica O'Neel
If you have ever been working on your online course and thought to yourself: “I feel like my discussions need a bit of variety.” “I wish I could look at an example of someone else’s project rubric.” “What exactly does it mean to ‘scaffold’ knowledge? Am I doing it right?” You’re not alone! We often […]
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