Faculty Resources

Faculty Success has prepared guides on a variety of teaching topics with summaries of best practices, links to helpful online resources, and information about faculty resources available to instructors at Texas Woman's University. Our guides cover course design and delivery, accessibility & Universal Design for Learning, classroom technology, and quality assurance at TWU.

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Universal Design helps instructors implement their courses to be usable by all students, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaption or accommodation.

Quality Assurance in online course design involves systematically evaluating and enhancing the quality of online courses. This ensures they are well-structured, accessible, engaging, and pedagogically sound. The goal is to create an online learning environment that promotes student success.

Open Educational Practices (OEP) work closely with Open Educational Resources (OER) to create a learner-driven classroom environment that values access, affordability, and cultural responsiveness.

Canvas is a web-based application which allows instructors to put class materials on the Internet. It provides a variety of tools to facilitate teaching and learning. 

This checklist provides guidelines to assist with creating high-quality online courses. This checklist can be used when designing and developing new online courses, reviewing a previously developed online course, or to provide ideas for revising an existing online course.