Blackboard News

Issue #9 Fall Update,October 2009

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• Academic Innovation Minigrants - Converting Your Class To a Hybrid
• Can Blackboard help you combat H1N1 (Swine Flu)?
• Fee clarification for using Blackboard

Academic Innovation Minigrants - Winter 2009

Go Hybrid!

The Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) will help you convert a traditional class into a hybrid (50% online, 50% classroom) format.

The CAE will provide:

• $500 for participation in 5 workshops – Winter term 2010
• $1,000 for the design, development and delivery of your hybrid course
• Advice and assistance from instruction design professionals
• High Tech classrooms during the coveted Tuesday/Thursday 10 – 11:30am and noon – 1:50pm time slots.

Proposals will receive priority if:

• The course to be converted is a traditional class scheduled for the Tuesday/Thursdays 10 – 11:30am and noon – 1:50pm time slot on during spring term 2010.
• The course to be converted is a traditional class scheduled for anytime on Tues/Thurs.
• You have never designed or taught a hybrid 50/50 course before.

However, all proposals will be considered…

Please review the Request for Proposals on the CAE website:

http://www.pdx.edu/cae/

Click on 'AIM' Academic Innovation Mini-grants

(This will be the last of the four grants listed.)

***Proposals must be received by October 23rd***

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Can Blackboard help you combat N1H1 (Swine Flu)?

Can Blackboard help you to combat H1N1 (Swine Flu)?

Why have paper that can carry the virus circulate in your classroom in the form of assignments turned in and peer reviews? Go paperless – this virus cannot be spread electronically.

And if the H1N1 does hit you or your students, you won’t need to hesitate about staying home if readings, discussions, assignments or other assessments can be accessed online.

Learn to use Blackboard.

The Instructional Design Team will customize a training workshop for your department and will even provide one-on-one Blackboard training.

Other suggestions for combating the Swine Flue can be found at:

http://www.oit.pdx.edu/node/755

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Fee clarification for using Blackboard

If you use Blackboard to teach your course, will students have to pay an extra fee?

NO!!!

The new fees have nothing to do with Blackboard usage!

Students will be charged $30 per credit if a course is fully online (no matter how their instructor supplies the instruction) - on a private website or whatever).

Students will be charged $15 per credit if a course is partially online (meets in the classroom fewer hours than a traditional course).

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