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.
August 16, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic caused higher ed institutions to quickly pivot from face-to-face learning to remote learning within a matter of weeks. This was no small task for universities and colleges, as many did not have the infrastructure in place to handle such a change. Some were more prepared for the switch due to faculty development…
January 19, 2021
Moving classes online during the quick pivot to remote instruction due to COVID-19 in March of 2020 had its challenges and hurdles. Most were handled by posting course content and resources into Webcourses@UCF. But what about software needed for courses that is only available on UCF campus lab computers? How did students gain access to…
October 1, 2020
Given the rush to remote instruction due to COVID-19, many colleges have been required to turn to alternative resources to supplement instruction and activities normally carried out in person and/or on campus. The Pegasus Innovation Lab (iLab) was tasked to assemble a Virtual Labs Taskforce to support the UCF colleges and departments that are in…
August 14, 2020
The Center for Distributed Learning virtually hosted Angelica Gabriela Rocha Guevera, the Director of Educational Innovation and Technology at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.