Featured Articles
Online Video Resources for Faculty
Videos can help enhance the classroom learning experience, and there are plenty of sites and organizations providing videos that can benefit the overall course. This article presents some video resources that faculty can explore for use in their classrooms. View entire article
Creating Transcripts for Your Instructional Media
What if your students cannot access the material within the instructional media object that you created and posted to the classroom? This article examines the reasons why students may be unable to use your media object, discusses a simple way to make your media objects accessible through the use of transcripts, and identifies some tools you can use to help you create those transcripts and post them alongside your media objects. View entire article
Engaging Students in Online Classes with Multimedia
This article provides highlights from an eight-week study of how some UMUC undergraduate writing and communications instructors are using multimedia in their online classes and presents recommendations for faculty who are interested in learning how to use multimedia in their own online courses. View entire article
An Overview of Robert Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction
This article seeks to give a brief and very general overview of Robert Gagne's Conditions of Learning theory and to offer some suggestions for possible application within UMUC courses. It is intended neither as a formal critique or scholarly commentary on this or any other educational theory nor as an endorsement of any one theory. Readers are encouraged to consider the ideas and to evaluate and apply them as they determine is best for their classroom circumstances. View entire article
Important Information
UMUC Classroom Interruption Planning Guide
These guidelines emphasize effective strategies that will allow faculty to continue teaching and communicating with students if online or onsite classes become inaccessible for extended periods of time.
Expectations of Faculty Teaching for GSMT
All Graduate School of Management & Technology (GSMT) faculty members, whether teaching online or face-to-face, use UMUC's online course delivery system, WebTycho. Expectations of Faculty Teaching for GSMT outlines requirements including instructors' use of WebTycho to achieve UMUC's goal of providing the highest-quality education to its students. The document is available for download from the Faculty Resources section.
Expectations of Faculty Teaching for SUS
All School of Undergraduate Studies (SUS) faculty members, whether teaching online or face-to-face, use UMUC's online course delivery system, WebTycho. Expectations of Faculty Teaching for SUS outlines requirements including instructors' use of WebTycho to achieve UMUC's goal of providing the highest-quality education to its students. These documents are available for download from the Faculty Resources section.
Calendar
Please refer to the UMUC's Academic Calendar for semester start and end dates. Also, don't forget about the UMUC recognized holidays. In many cases there is a difference in the scheduled holidays between online and F2F classes.
For Face to Face classes: The start and end date for your class will depend on the day of the week your class meets. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes for the exact start and end date.
Information and Library Services
New One-Stop Access to Faculty and Student Research and Scholarship: Faculty and Student Research @ UMUC
Visit the new Faculty and Student Research @ UMUC Web page from Information and Library Services, which provides one-stop access to the growing body of research-related materials produced by UMUC faculty, students, and visiting scholars. View entire article
McKeldin Library Office Hours
Research assistance will be available to UMUC students, faculty and staff in the ILS office in McKeldin Library room 6259 during the following hours:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: Noon to 8 p.m.
An appointment to see an ILS librarian at McKeldin at other times can be made using the appointment request form.
