2019-2020 Annual Report
STUDENTS
Up 5% from FY19
COURSES OFFERED
Total of 943 sections
STUDENT CREDIT HOURS
Up 10% from FY19
STUDENT SERVICES
eCOACHING
Starting fall 2019, students in 有料盒子视频 eCampus-supported programs and courses have access to the eCoaching program. This free service is designed to help students succeed no matter what obstacles pop up. Students have access to one-on-one meetings with the following coaches:
- Transitions Coach
- Registration Support
- Financial Coach
- Academic Success Coach
- Career Coach
- Tech Support
ALASKA ADVANTAGE
The 有料盒子视频 Advantage program offers high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college courses for both high school and college credit.
Within its first year, the Advantage program served 208 high school students around the state. They earned 1,067 student credit hours.
Twenty-nine school districts have joined as of fall 2020; 313 high school students are currently enrolled in 152 有料盒子视频 courses, earning 1,491 students credit hours. Learn more about the program.
See more facts and figures from 有料盒子视频 Advantage鈥檚 first year.
ONLINE TUTORING
有料盒子视频 eCampus provided support to the . The Center serves college and high school students through resource-sharing and tutoring to help them develop math and language skills. 有料盒子视频 eCampus set up a platform for online math tutoring, partially funded a math tutor and loaned technology to better serve students.
PEOPLE INQUIRED ABOUT 有料盒子视频鈥橲 ONLINE PROGRAMS
有料盒子视频 eCampus supports online programs with marketing, recruitment and retention strategies. The online programs that get the most inquiries are Bachelor鈥檚 Degree Completion, BA in Psychology, Medical Coding Occupational Endorsement and the BBA in Business Administration.
EXAM SERVICES
This year, the 有料盒子视频 eCampus Exam Center successfully merged with Testing Services and was rebranded as 有料盒子视频 eCampus Exam Services. This new one-stop location includes two testing rooms in the Bunnell Building. In addition to proctoring for 有料盒子视频 courses, we administer hundreds of national exams through various testing vendors, organize and administer SAT and ACT testing for local high school students, and serve as proctors for State of 有料盒子视频 exams including the 有料盒子视频 State Bar.
有料盒子视频 eCampus Exam Services onboarded National Testing Network (NTN) as a new testing vendor this year. Before 有料盒子视频 partnered with NTN, first responders had to travel outside of 有料盒子视频 to take career-progressing exams. Now, we can serve 有料盒子视频鈥檚 first responders on our Fairbanks campus.
DEPARTMENT SUPPORT
BEST ONLINE BACHELOR鈥橲 PROGRAMS
University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks earned a spot in the top 100 colleges in U.S. News & World Reports鈥 2020 rankings of the best online bachelor鈥檚 programs. This is the fifth year in a row that online programs at the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks have received national recognition from U.S. News & World Report. In 2020, 有料盒子视频鈥檚 online programs earned spots on the following lists:
- Best Online Bachelor鈥檚 Programs
- Best Online MBA Programs
- Best Online Master鈥檚 in Criminal Justice Programs
- Best Online Master鈥檚 in Education Programs
GROWING NUMBER OF COURSES
On a daily basis, 有料盒子视频 eCampus instructional designers work with instructors and departments to develop brand new courses and improve existing courses. This year, 有料盒子视频 added 115 new courses to its catalog of online courses.ONLINE STEM
The University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks offers a strong and growing suite of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses online. Explore 有料盒子视频鈥檚 online STEM offerings.
鈥淚f faculty are given sufficient time and guidance to develop quality online courses, learning can be just as good or better than in face-to-face courses.鈥
鈥 Diana Wolf, associate professor in 有料盒子视频鈥檚 Department of Biology and Wildlife and Institute of Arctic Biology, in 鈥淢y journey teaching an online course鈥
ONLINE STEM COURSES
NEW ONLINE PROGRAMS
The 有料盒子视频 eCampus team offers a full range of support to academic departments that want to develop fully online degrees. This year, six new programs were added. See 有料盒子视频鈥檚 full list of online programs:
Arctic and Northern Studies
Justice Administration
MBA (General Management)
MBA (STEM)
Security and Disaster Management
Special Education
Arctic Security
Business Continuity
Cybersecurity Management
Accounting
Special Education
Biology
Accounting
Applied Management
Bachelor鈥檚 Degree Completion
Business Administration
History
Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Justice
Political Science
Psychology
Sport and Recreation Business
Applied Accounting
Applied Business
Early Childhood Education
Information Technology Specialist
Paralegal Studies
Associate of Arts
Associate of Science
Accounting Technician
Applied Business Management
Early Childhood Education
Health Care Reimbursement
Information Technology Specialist
Medical and Dental Reception
Administrative Assistant
Bookkeeping Technician
Financial Services Representative
Medical Billing
Medical Coding
Medical Office
Reception Supervision and Personnel Management
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
NEW FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Two new faculty development programs were started in June 2020: Course Spotlights and Community Seminars. Course Spotlights give instructors an opportunity to take a peek into quality online courses taught by their peers at 有料盒子视频. Selected faculty and instructors host a tour and Q&A of their course. Thus far the series has supported courses in a range of disciplines from biology to special education. Take a tour.
Community Seminars invites the 有料盒子视频 community to learn from each other. Seminars are led by faculty who鈥檝e had success with a particular aspect of or approach to teaching and learning. Browse the archives.
GROWING ACCESSIBILITY
有料盒子视频 eCampus hosted 30-minute presentations on course accessibility Aug. 12-22. The series, called Growing Accessibility, offered tools for instructors to incorporate accessibility measures into their courses, both online and in-person.- Aug. 12: Squash Confusion with Document Structure
- Aug. 13: Peas, Write Alt-Text for Images
- Aug. 14: Asparagus the Excuses: Make Your Own Captions
- Aug. 15: Start Sprouting Accessible PDFs
- Aug. 19: Endive into an Accessible Google Drive
- Aug. 20: Turnip Blackboard鈥檚 Accessibility with Ally
- Aug. 21: Tomayto, Tomahto: Give Users Options with Texthelp鈥檚 Read & Write
- Aug. 22: The Rad-ish World of Assistive Technology
HOURS OF FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
This number is up 40% from FY19. 有料盒子视频 eCampus offers a wide variety of faculty development opportunities for all faculty, instructors and TAs. Find resources at iTeachU.uaf.edu.
INSTRUCTORS WHO COMPLETED A LONG-FORM PROGRAM
Not included in the hours of faculty development is our support for instructors who commit to one of our long-form faculty development programs. These programs require 25 to 100 hours of commitment from the instructors. Explore our current programs.
BLACKBOARD BOOTCAMP
有料盒子视频 eCampus instructional designers hosted Blackboard Bootcamp, a workshop for faculty, instructors and TAs who are new to Blackboard. Participants gained experience with the basics: making a course available, creating announcements, adding content, creating a discussion forum, and collecting assignments, quizzes, and exams. Blackboard is used by many courses at 有料盒子视频 and with the growth in online teaching and learning, Blackboard Bootcamp is now offered every month with additional workshops before the start of every semester.
BLACKBOARD BITEZ
Blackboard Bitez is a new series of short videos to help instructors learn how to use the tools in Blackboard more effectively. Topics include setting course navigation, using the assignment tool and navigating to a discussion board. See the collection of Blackboard Bitez. Watch this Blackboard Bitez about using Blackboard Grade Center:
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Wendy Croskrey, an art professor and CITE Fellow, and her team won 有料盒子视频鈥檚 2019-20 Inspiration Award for the Best Faculty Invention Disclosure as part of the Innovative Disclosures and Entrepreneurial Activities (IDEAs) awards. 鈥淪pruce Sap Extrusion Wax,鈥 which was part of her eCampus-supported CITE Fellows project, was selected as the top faculty-led innovation with the highest commercial readiness, capacity to make an immediate impact, potential to scale, and capabilities of the lead innovator or innovative team.
FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) brought together faculty from across 有料盒子视频 to study and create shareable resources around a current topic in teaching and learning. In 2019-20, FLCs included trauma-informed pedagogies, best practices for high-enrollment online courses, and best practices for dual-enrollment online courses. FLCs are supported by a partnership between 有料盒子视频 eCampus, the Provost鈥檚 Faculty Development Team, and the Faculty Development and Improvement Committee.
FACULTY ACCELERATOR
有料盒子视频 eCampus provided leadership and support for the recent launch of the , which is now the central faculty development body at 有料盒子视频. The Accelerator is comprised of partners from across campus with a shared goal to create an ecosystem of support for faculty. Current partners are: eCampus, the Provost鈥檚 Faculty Development Team, the Faculty Development and Improvement Committee, CenterICE, the Vice Provost鈥檚 Office, and the Graduate School. Some of the goals of the Accelerator are to provide support for improving grant writing, submission and publication metrics; increase access to events and opportunities for rural, remote and distance faculty; build new-faculty community, starting with orientation; and establish effective teaching practices along with meaningful faculty self-assessment.
COVID-19 RESPONSE
In March 2020, COVID-19 changed the landscape of higher education. Spring break was extended and the remainder of the spring semester and the whole summer semester were fully remote experiences for both instructors and students. As the university鈥檚 resident experts on successful online learning experiences, the team at 有料盒子视频 eCampus expanded its already robust suite of faculty development events, created guides for instructors and new-to-online students, and held the (virtual) door open for anyone needing assistance.
TOUCHPOINTS
The instructional design team logged a record year of interactions with faculty. Nearly 400 of these touchpoints took place between March and June of 2020.
COURSES CONVERTED
In March alone, the instructional design team helped instructors covert more than 1,000 courses from face-to-face to distance learning.
LEVEL UP
To support faculty moving to remote teaching during the pandemic, the 有料盒子视频 eCampus Design Team created Level Up: Foundations and Innovations in Online Learning in summer 2020. Level Up invited faculty to start where they were and level up their distance learning practice using student engagement, backwards and inclusive design, and video creation. With 25 hours of programming over the course of a single week in May, instructional designers supported 39 faculty from over 18 different departments across the university. Interest in the program was so high that the Design Team offered a second Level Up later in the summer, hosting over 20 more faculty for the second training. Meet the Level Up team:
OPEN LABS AND DROP-IN SUPPORT
The 有料盒子视频 eCampus instructional design team offers daily open lab and drop-in support for faculty, instructors and TAs. Anyone teaching at 有料盒子视频 can get one-on-one assistance troubleshooting problems in Blackboard, Google Suite for Education, WordPress and other instructional tools. Instructional designers also provide consultation for incorporating teaching strategies and technology, as well as assist with developing curriculum, creating assessments, and so much more. During the peak of transitioning to online learning, eCampus hosted record numbers of open lab and drop-in support. Find Open Labs on the eCampus Faculty Development Calendar.
TEACHING TIPS FROM INSTRUCTORS AS THEY ADAPTED
有料盒子视频 eCampus produces weekly articles called Teaching Tips. These one-page tips cover best practices, pedagogy, tools, emerging ideas and more. With spring 2020 being an unprecedented semester, eCampus wanted to highlight unique faculty perspectives on how they adapted their teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A group of faculty wrote about their experiences, shared lessons learned and reflected on how COVID-19 may shape their future teaching practice.
- Early reflections about what worked and what we learned by Jennifer Tilbury
- Existing online courses not immune to COVID-19 changes by Sean Holland
- Fostering engagement in online discussion by S. Ryan Oliver
- Effective distance teaching through flexibility by Mike Koskey
- Finding community and humor in a changed classroom by Zoe Marie Jones
STUDENT SUPPORT
The Student Support team at 有料盒子视频 eCampus created and shared tips for both new-to-online students and experienced online students who were now juggling a lot more than they originally planned. Read and download Adjusting Your Habits for Success in Distance Classes (PDF) Access the 有料盒子视频 eCampus Advisor Brighton Brooks and others went on to adapt these resources for virtual live and recorded Zoom sessions for fall 2020 students. Click this image and use passcode 65k4kr=# to watch a recorded Intro to Blackboard session.
WORKING FROM HOME
Like everyone at 有料盒子视频 and around the country, the eCampus team quickly adapted to working from home (or any place we could find with good internet). Take a quick tour of our new normal!
