July 15, 2025
Enhancing Learning with 360° Interactive Experiences 360° interactives offer immersive, real-world environments that engage students in exploratory and experiential learning. Whether it’s a virtual field trip to a historical site, an interactive lab simulation, or a walkthrough of a complex system, these tools allow learners to navigate and interact with content in all directions by…
July 15, 2025
Integrating UCF STARS into Your Courses STARS (Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship) is UCF Libraries’ institutional repository, offering free access to scholarly creative works by the UCF community. Faculty can enhance their courses by linking to student theses, faculty publications, conference presentations, data sets, open educational resources (OER), and more. Integrating STARS supports…
July 15, 2025
Expanding Global Learning Through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) UCF’s Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) initiative supports virtual exchange and blended learning experiences by pairing UCF faculty with international partners. Together, they create shared learning opportunities that help students develop intercultural competence in a globalized academic context. To expand student access to global learning and…
May 1, 2025
The winner of the 2025 Quality Impact Award is Tina Calandrino. Since joining the Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) as an instructional designer, she has completed over 70 reviews resulting in 49 Quality/High Quality Online designations and 14 Quality/High Quality Blended designations. By combining data-informed strategies, long-term faculty partnerships, and sustained support, her work has…
June 4, 2024
The winner of the 2024 Quality Impact Award is Charlotte Jones-Roberts. Since joining the instructional design team in 2018, she has completed more than 60 reviews as a primary and secondary reviewer (an average of 8.5 reviews per year for the past seven years). As illustrated in her submission narrative, throughout this time she has…
May 12, 2023
The winner of the 2023 Quality Impact Award is Dr. Roslyn Miller. Since March 2019, she has completed 38 total course reviews (an average of 9.5 reviews per year for the last four years), particularly in the STEM discipline. Dr. Miller provided an exemplary narrative that illustrated how she has been dedicated to quality course…
March 31, 2022
Pilots In January 2021, a charge was put forth by the Executive Director of the Center for Distributed Learning to review and recommend a licensed tool for enhancing online discussions at the University of Central Florida. 9 faculty members from 8 colleges within UCF were recruited to serve on the committee led by Carolyn Massiah…
March 25, 2022
The winner of the 2022 Quality Impact Award is Dr. Shelly Wyatt. Since 2017, Dr. Wyatt has facilitated 49 Quality and/or High Quality designations (an average of 10 reviews per year).
March 25, 2022
The winner of the inaugural 2021 Quality Impact Award is Ashley Salter. Ashley provided an exemplary submission and has conducted over 30 Quality and/or High Quality reviews and designations.
March 25, 2022
The UCF Quality Taskforce sought for ways to exemplify the hard work put forth by the Instructional Design team at the Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) in regards to their tasks, relations, and contributions related to quality. Annually awarded to one assistant, associate, and/or senior instructional designer (ID) for their significant impact in UCF’s Quality Initiative, the purpose of the Instructional Designer Quality Impact Award is to recognize the efforts and impact the ID has had on UCF faculty, students, and the Quality Initiative.