Academic Services and Products is now offering a webinar series to provide ongoing professional development opportunities for faculty! Nested within our formal course development process, these webinars will provide supplementary guidance to faculty working with …

Quality Matters Standard 8.3 asks that your online course “provide accessible text and images in files, documents, LMS pages, and web pages to meet the needs of diverse learners” (Quality Matters Higher Education Rubric, Sixth …

As you begin your online course, you will want to consider how to guide your students through the course. In other words, how will you facilitate their learning journey? Facilitation in an online course refers …

Like riding a bike for the first time, it is best to bring a friend along to support you when developing an online course. The relationship between the faculty member, or Subject Matter Expert (SME), …

Few would argue that the past 18 months in the United States have not been tumultuous. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and continued racial injustices, individuals across the nation, but especially in higher education, are wrestling to define …

Universal Design for Learning, or UDL, is a framework used by educators to augment teaching and learning styles, content, and assessments for all populations of learners. CAST, a nonprofit education research and development organization, created …

One aspect of inclusion in education, especially online learning in higher education, is ensuring that all learning materials and content can be accessed all learners. All learners have strengths and weaknesses – using course design …

The events of the last year have sparked conversations amongst families, colleagues, and friends, about race, including the Academic Services team at AP. The team has adopted Glenn Singleton’s Courageous Conversations framework: stay engaged, expect …

 
AP awarded four grants in April for its Faculty Grant Program:

“An Empirical Examination of MBA Program & Course Level Student Success.” David Lehr, Longwood University.
“Embedding Team-Based Learning into a Redesigned Graduate Level Asynchronous Accelerated Online …

General Standard 5 addresses learning activities and learner interaction to meet the learning objective goals.
Click here to view Quality Matters Standard 5,2 in the Quality Matters Rubric.
This standard specifically addresses that learning activities provide opportunities …