Online Teaching Professional Learning Community
The Office of Online Learning (OOL) invites you to join your online teaching colleagues at Loyola in the Online Teaching Professional Learning Community (PLC). Led by instructors and hosted by OOL, the Online Teaching PLC provides all Loyola educators with a dedicated space to share their experiences with online teaching, connect with colleagues about best practices and teaching strategies, and learn new methods for strengthening their online courses. Please note that all Loyola instructors who teach online are welcome to join, including faculty instructors (tenure-track, NTT, and adjunct), graduate students (TAs and instructors) and staff educators.
You can engage with the Online Teaching PLC in two ways: through an always-on, asynchronous community in Microsoft Teams or by way of bi-monthly synchronous meetings. Of course, we’d love to see you in both, too!
Microsoft Teams PLC space
To join the community, request access to the Microsoft Teams Online Teaching PLC. Once we receive your request, we'll add you to the team and provide some guidance for using the space.
Synchronous meetings via Zoom
To join us in our synchronous meetings, use the following links to register for the date you would like to attend; you will be sent the link to the meeting automatically. We accept registrations up to 24 hours before the meeting start time.
| Date & Time | Description | Registration Link |
|---|---|---|
| February 8th, 2023; 11:30 - 12:30 | Join us for a discussion of ChatGPT, the sophisticated new writing AI that many think could upend freshmen writing and more. What is ChatGPT and how does it work? What can it do and not do? What are people saying about it? We can also have an informal discussion of anything and everything going on in your courses right now. | Select this link to register for the February meeting in advance, or use it to join at the time of the meeting. |
| March 8th, 2023, 11:30 - 12:30 | For this meeting, we'll talk about the landscape of research in online learning. What do we know a great deal about? What is at the cutting edge? Where do we all go to learn more? If you're doing any research, we'd love to hear about it, and perhaps some collaborations will develop! Please come with any topics you'd like to discuss in addition to this as well. | Select this link to register for the March meeting in advance, or us it to join at the time of the meeting. |
| April 5th, 2023, 11:30 - 12:30 | Our loose topic for this month will be syllabus design and innovation. Now that we're past the midpoint, how did your syllabus fare? What would you like to change? What changes have worked? We will also take a look at a number of syllabus design approaches and the technology that can help realize them. As always, this is an informal conversation with peers in which we can talk about anything on your mind. | Select this link to register for the April meeting, or use it to join at the time of the meeting. |
The Office of Online Learning (OOL) invites you to join your online teaching colleagues at Loyola in the Online Teaching Professional Learning Community (PLC). Led by instructors and hosted by OOL, the Online Teaching PLC provides all Loyola educators with a dedicated space to share their experiences with online teaching, connect with colleagues about best practices and teaching strategies, and learn new methods for strengthening their online courses. Please note that all Loyola instructors who teach online are welcome to join, including faculty instructors (tenure-track, NTT, and adjunct), graduate students (TAs and instructors) and staff educators.
You can engage with the Online Teaching PLC in two ways: through an always-on, asynchronous community in Microsoft Teams or by way of bi-monthly synchronous meetings. Of course, we’d love to see you in both, too!
Microsoft Teams PLC space
To join the community, request access to the Microsoft Teams Online Teaching PLC. Once we receive your request, we'll add you to the team and provide some guidance for using the space.
Synchronous meetings via Zoom
To join us in our synchronous meetings, use the following links to register for the date you would like to attend; you will be sent the link to the meeting automatically. We accept registrations up to 24 hours before the meeting start time.
| Date & Time | Description | Registration Link |
|---|---|---|
| February 8th, 2023; 11:30 - 12:30 | Join us for a discussion of ChatGPT, the sophisticated new writing AI that many think could upend freshmen writing and more. What is ChatGPT and how does it work? What can it do and not do? What are people saying about it? We can also have an informal discussion of anything and everything going on in your courses right now. | Select this link to register for the February meeting in advance, or use it to join at the time of the meeting. |
| March 8th, 2023, 11:30 - 12:30 | For this meeting, we'll talk about the landscape of research in online learning. What do we know a great deal about? What is at the cutting edge? Where do we all go to learn more? If you're doing any research, we'd love to hear about it, and perhaps some collaborations will develop! Please come with any topics you'd like to discuss in addition to this as well. | Select this link to register for the March meeting in advance, or us it to join at the time of the meeting. |
| April 5th, 2023, 11:30 - 12:30 | Our loose topic for this month will be syllabus design and innovation. Now that we're past the midpoint, how did your syllabus fare? What would you like to change? What changes have worked? We will also take a look at a number of syllabus design approaches and the technology that can help realize them. As always, this is an informal conversation with peers in which we can talk about anything on your mind. | Select this link to register for the April meeting, or use it to join at the time of the meeting. |