{"id":69388,"date":"2015-11-19T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=69388"},"modified":"2015-11-19T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T15:18:12","slug":"webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rosen College of Hospitality Management hosted its first Webcourse Boot Camp on November 13 for faculty, staff and graduate students. Representatives from The Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) conducted a one-day session covering a variety of different subjects related to Webcourses.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the boot camp was to refresh and update participants on effective tools and techniques for both undergraduate and graduate courses, highlighting examples and best practices in the following areas:<\/p>\n<li>Course content coverage<\/li>\n<li>Module design<\/li>\n<li>Effective assignments<\/li>\n<li>Effective use of graphics<\/li>\n<li>Copyright issues<\/li>\n<li>Tools to create course recordings<\/li>\n<li>Tools to prevent student cheating<\/li>\n<li>Integrating Turnitin or iThenticate<\/li>\n<li>Accessibility issues and tools<\/li>\n<li>Test bank storage<\/li>\n<li>Providing proof of activity for academic performance (for financial aid)<\/li>\n<li>Badging<\/li>\n<li>Use of social media<\/li>\n<li>Integrating course rubric into speed grading<\/li>\n<li>New Webcourses developments<\/li>\n<li>Tools to enhance global competence<\/li>\n<p>\u201cWe were delighted to offer this career development opportunity to our faculty to improve their online education skills and support our strategic alignment with UCF Online,\u201d said Dr. Abraham Pizam, dean of Rosen College.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 26 people attended the Webcourse Boot Camp, including Rosen College faculty, staff and graduate students. Attendees received a certificate of achievement at the end of the boot camp.<\/p>\n<p>Rosen College plans to host additional boot camps for the UCF community focused on different types of skills for professional development. If you\u2019re interested in being notified about future events, please e-mail <a href=\"mailto:Asli.Tasci@ucf.edu\">Asli.Tasci@ucf.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rosen College of Hospitality Management hosted its first Webcourse Boot Camp on November 13 for faculty, staff and graduate students. Representatives from The Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) conducted a one-day session covering a variety of different subjects related to Webcourses. The purpose of the boot camp was to refresh and update participants on effective tools and techniques for&hellip;","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":69389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[766,4068,14583],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-69388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","tag-center-for-distributed-learning","tag-rosen-college-of-hospitality-management","tag-ucf-online"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Rosen College of Hospitality Management hosted its first Webcourse Boot Camp on November 13 for faculty, staff and graduate students. Representatives\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Rosen College of Hospitality Management hosted its first Webcourse Boot Camp on November 13 for faculty, staff and graduate students. Representatives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-11-19T15:18:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"613\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kathy Dorf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kathy Dorf\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kathy Dorf\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/cb551f9320eeca635fa10162a210563c\"},\"headline\":\"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-19T15:18:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/\"},\"wordCount\":249,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Center for Distributed Learning\",\"Rosen College of Hospitality Management\",\"UCF Online\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; Campus\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2015\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/\",\"name\":\"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online | University of Central Florida News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-19T15:18:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/cb551f9320eeca635fa10162a210563c\"},\"description\":\"The Rosen College of Hospitality Management hosted its first Webcourse Boot Camp on November 13 for faculty, staff and graduate students. Representatives\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":613,\"caption\":\"rosen-college-bootcamp\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/\",\"name\":\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\",\"description\":\"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/cb551f9320eeca635fa10162a210563c\",\"name\":\"Kathy Dorf\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b70e05a464caf41b951ee225b244cdc1ced47a3a0013920c4346faab141980c0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b70e05a464caf41b951ee225b244cdc1ced47a3a0013920c4346faab141980c0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kathy Dorf\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/author\/kdorf\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#local-main-organization-logo\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"University of Central Florida\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online | University of Central Florida News","description":"The Rosen College of Hospitality Management hosted its first Webcourse Boot Camp on November 13 for faculty, staff and graduate students. Representatives","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online","og_description":"The Rosen College of Hospitality Management hosted its first Webcourse Boot Camp on November 13 for faculty, staff and graduate students. Representatives","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/","og_site_name":"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF","article_published_time":"2015-11-19T15:18:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":613,"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kathy Dorf","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@UCF","twitter_site":"@UCF","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kathy Dorf","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/"},"author":{"name":"Kathy Dorf","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/cb551f9320eeca635fa10162a210563c"},"headline":"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online","datePublished":"2015-11-19T15:18:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/"},"wordCount":249,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg","keywords":["Center for Distributed Learning","Rosen College of Hospitality Management","UCF Online"],"articleSection":["Colleges &amp; Campus"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2015","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/","name":"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online | University of Central Florida News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg","datePublished":"2015-11-19T15:18:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/cb551f9320eeca635fa10162a210563c"},"description":"The Rosen College of Hospitality Management hosted its first Webcourse Boot Camp on November 13 for faculty, staff and graduate students. Representatives","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373.jpg","width":1024,"height":613,"caption":"rosen-college-bootcamp"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Webcourses Boot Camp Prepares Faculty, Staff &amp; Grad Students for UCF Online"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/","name":"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today","description":"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/cb551f9320eeca635fa10162a210563c","name":"Kathy Dorf","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b70e05a464caf41b951ee225b244cdc1ced47a3a0013920c4346faab141980c0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b70e05a464caf41b951ee225b244cdc1ced47a3a0013920c4346faab141980c0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kathy Dorf"},"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/author\/kdorf\/"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/webcourses-boot-camp-prepares-faculty-staff-grad-students-for-ucf-online\/#local-main-organization-logo","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"University of Central Florida"}]}},"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2015\/11\/Webcourses-e1447946098373-300x180.jpg","primary_category":5,"primary_tag":4068,"author_byline":"Kathy Dorf","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69391,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69388\/revisions\/69391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69388"},{"taxonomy":"tu_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tu_author?post=69388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}