Organized by the eCampus Center, several professional development offerings comprise the program: the eCampus Course Design and Development Seminar or eCampus Facilitated Course Development provide for guidance in creating online courses; the eCampus Teaching Online Seminar helps instructors hone the skills needed to teach online effectively; and Quality Matters Peer Reviews give instructors the opportunity to make strategic course improvements using nationally recognized standards.
In creating new online courses or converting existing face-to-face offerings, eQIP participants are helping support the state of Idaho’s goal to see 60 percent of its citizens age 25 to 34 earn a degree or certificate by 2020. Some online courses will be taught this summer, allowing students the chance to stay on target toward graduation even if they are away exploring the East Coast or working at a ranch in Texas.
Other courses will be taught later, including an Introduction to Oceanography class designed by David Wilkins, associate professor in geosciences. He said he considers the Course Design and Development Seminar a great learning experience that helped him align his teaching with the learning activities and outcomes.
“[The seminar] has affirmed my observations that teaching and learning in an online environment can be very different and requires careful planning and forethought in creating and delivering these courses – it’s certainly not as straightforward as simply putting your PowerPoint online and calling it good,” Wilkins wrote in a reflection. “It’s also opened my eyes to the tremendous resource we have in the design and support staff in our eCampus Center.”
Wilkins was one of nearly 40 faculty and adjuncts listed below who participated in eQIP during spring 2016.
For additional information about the program, visit eCampus.boisestate.edu/eQIP or complete theonline interest form.
Spring 2016 eQIP Participants
eCampus Course Design and Development Seminar or eCampus Facilitated Course Development:
| Keith Allred | ED-ESP 513 | Family Systems and Collaboration |
| Helen Barnes | BAS 300 | Introduction to the Applied Sciences |
| John Bieter | BASQ-STD 379 | Basque Global Migration |
| Banks Blair | ACAD 197 | Financial Health in College |
| Diane Boothe | ED-LLC 200 | Cultural Diversity in the School |
| Lane Gillespie | CJ 101 | Introduction to Criminal Justice |
| Eric Gooden | ACCT 405 | Financial Statement Auditing |
| Kimberly Hardy | PSYC 487 | Capstone Perspectives: History and Systems |
| Cody Jorgensen | CJ 498 | Senior Seminar |
| Robert J Morgan | GENBUS 101 | Business for the New Generation |
| Margaret Mulhern | ED-LLC 331 | Assessment of Learners in the Bilingual/ENL Classroom |
| Juli Pool | ED-ESP 250 | Exceptionality in the Schools |
| Decateur Reed | GENBUS 441 | Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability |
| David Wilkins | GEOS 201 | Introduction to Oceanography |
| John Ziker | ANTH 216 | Magic, Witchcraft and Religion |
eCampus Teaching Online Seminar:
| Teri Albertazzi | HLTHST 207 | Nutrition |
| Karla Calumet | HLTHST 314 | Health Law and Ethics |
| Jennifer Freeman | RESPCARE 442 | Sleep Medicine |
| Lacey Harris | COMM 390 | Conflict Management |
| Collin Hughes | HUM 207 | Introduction to Humanities |
| Gundy Kaupins | HRM 305 | Human Resource Management |
| Bonnie Kenaley | SOCWRK 570/573 | Foundation Field Work 1,Foundation Practicum Seminar 1 |
| Denice Liley | SOCWRK 512 | HBSE 1 Human Development Through the Life Cycle |
| Jennifer Mallette | ENGL 202 | Introduction to Technical Communication |
| Doug Metzgar | BUSBTC 201 | Business Foundations I |
| Jen Obenshain | SOCWRK 000 | MSW Program Resources site |
| Cynthia Sanders | SOCWRK 505 | Foundations of Social Welfare Policy |
| David Thompson | CS 117 | Introduction to C++ |
Quality Matters™ Peer Reviews:
| Scott Armentrout | PSYC 101 | General Psychology |
| Helen Barnes | BAS 310 | Communication in the Applied Sciences |
| Franziska Borders | GERMAN 101 | Elementary German I |
| Lisa Bostaph | VS 535 | Survey Types of Victimization |
| Niharika Dinkar | ARTHIST 103 | Survey of Far Eastern Art |
| Teresa Focarile | THEA 230 | Dev of Theatre 1: Classical – Neoclassical Forms |
| Pamela Gehrke | NURS 608 | Health Care Policy and Advocacy |
| Patricia Hampshire | ED-ESP 515 | Early Intervention, Birth to Three |
| Rosemary Macy | NSIM 501 | Educational Simulation Methods |
| Refik Sadikovic | BOSNIAN 101 | Elementary Bosnian I |
| Mary Shawver | ASL 101 | American Sign Language I |