Broward College has a rich community of faculty who bring expertise in e-learning "best practices". These instructors represent what makes e-learning an engaging and dynamic platform for teaching and learning. We believe that the best way for faculty to get started with e-learning or to expand their use of e-learning is to see what their colleagues are doing. This provides an opportunity to assess the merits of different uses of instructional technology and teaching pedagogies and to learn from the successes and failures of others.

This site will give you just a peek into how these innovative instructors integrate a variety of applications into e-learning. Please contact the instructors directly if you are interested in learning more about their approaches. And congratulations to our showcased faculty!
Give Students Opportunities to Succeed
Professor Charlene Koonin

In her developmental reading classes, Professor Charlene Koonin designs her online assessments in such a way that students are given opportunities and incentives to succeed. Plus, see how she uses "one-minute" summaries to make sure students truly understand each lesson ...

Connect Economics Classes to the Real World
Professor Greg Lindeblom

Professor Greg LIndeblom creatively uses an online toolkit to connect his Economics classes to the real world, view real-life videos, discuss current economic situations, present group works, and collaborate with students from overseas ...

Use e-Folio in Online Freshmen Composition Classes
Professor Xiao Wang

Professor Xiao Wang effectively uses e-Folio in her online composition courses for Freshmen students. She presents at the 60th Convention on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco, March of 2009.

Use MS Paint to Create Template for Websites
Professor George Cooke

After several years of using a chalk board to draw diagrams for students to explain web site layout using HTML tables, Professor Cooke now uses Microsoft Paint to enhance the drawings with color after one class where colored chalk was not available to highlight sections of the layout for a website.


The BC Mathematics Learning Community
Professor Abe Biggs

As part of a Title V Grant, Professor Abe Biggs has created a simple, but yet creative and efficient way to communicate and share information with other Math Professors on North, Central and South Campuses...

Student Online Orientation for E-learning
Professor Sharon Rifkin

Professor Sharon Rifkin, Professor of Wellness Education and the Jan Cummings Endowed Teaching Chair in Critical Thinking, has developed a student-centered approach in understanding the course management system...

Deterring Plagiarism in an Online Course
Professor David Hennessy

As we all know, the Internet now makes it easy to find thousands of relevant sources in seconds, and in the space of a short time anyone can find, copy, and paste together a term paper, article, or even a book...

A Model for Blended Online Courses
Professor Dominique Charlotteaux

Dr. Dominique Charlotteaux has found a simple, but strategically effective, way to organize her blended Teaching Diverse Populations (EDG 2701) course...

Templated Lessons Using SoftChalk
Professor Pedro Oliveira

In developing his Introduction to Ethics course, Dr. Pedro Oliveira was looking for a professional, yet easy way to present his chapter overviews to his students...

Creative Ways to Use Discussions Tool
Professor Barbara Nightingale

Dr. Barbara Nightingale, Professor of English, creatively uses the Discussions tool in Blackboard to make students in her American Literature classes feel connected, interact with their peers, keep them on track, and also ensure that students read course materials...

Designing Syllabus and Course Preview Page in SoftChalk
Professor Jane Treptow

Looking for a way to "chunk" or break up her lengthy syllabus, Dr. Treptow used a software package called "SoftChalk" to create professional looking templates that allowed her to section off her syllabus...

Using Creative Discussions to Promote Conceptual Thinking
Professor Neil Plakcy

Just how important is food is in our lives? Professor Plakcy knows! He teaches a Freshman Composition course which is specially designed to highlight different modes of writing using food-related examples. Hungry?...

Publisher Content and Blackboard
Professor Mariana Coanda

Even though publisher content is a great way to supplement online courses, it can be quite a challenge to figure out how to use it in a way that is easy to upload for the instructor and makes the most sense for the learner....

X-ray Images and Image Database
Professor David Hall

David Hall, Associate Professor in the Radiology program, has found a great way to link his interest in photography and providing needed x-ray images for student learning in his web-enhanced Radiographic Pathology course...

Math Video Lessons
Professor Howard Sorkin

Professor Howard (Howie) Sorkin has created more than 100 videos using Camtasia for his online math courses. These videos include lectures and sample solutions to problems...


Site Updated: November 2008

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