Tech eNewsletter

Our CIEL Tech-eNewsletter provides information about our instructional consulting and Blackboard support, instructional development projects, and professional development events. If you have any question or look for any support from us, please contact us at ciel.educ@ttu.edu.

Summer 2022 ISSUE

The CIEL team developed an interactive training module for pre-service teachers' online teaching based on our Quality of Online Education framework. This training course will start running in Summer 2022 in the teacher education program.

CIEL created a Digital Literacy Assessment course to meet TEA requirements for the Teacher Education department. This course tests digital literacy provides resources for Google Educator Certificate. This course is housed in TopHat, and it will be available to students in Summer 2022.

The CIEL team created an accessibility assurance plan in 2021. We teamed up with the TTU eLearning Accessibility team to run reports and fix online course issues to make them accessible. Our plan is to assist in making all EDUC online courses accessible for our students. This project will be continuous, so get on our list today!

We continue to assist in course development for all College of Education courses. The CIEL team offers design and development services each semester. We also check accessibility during course development. Get on our list today!

As one of our long-term external clients, we created online courses for West Texas AHEC education programs: AHEC Scholars, Community Health Worker and Behavior Health Workforce. We are in the process of provide design updates and course content improvements.

CIEL is assisting in designing and developing the Graduate Student Orientation site for the C&I department.

CIEL is assisting in designing and developing the EDUC Doctoral Student Hub for the College of Education website. Along with the design, we are assisting in enhancing their support videos and ensuring they are accessible with captioning.