The AU Course Shell is a 16-week course structure that can help you develop your course faster in D2L Brightspace, our learning management system (LMS). Designed by the Center for Instructional Innovation, the shell comes with pre-built pages that you can modify according to your needs.
Brightspace, by Desire2Learn (D2L), is the primary online Learning Management System (LMS) for Augusta University. Brightspace LMS is used to distribute course content, such as video and audio lectures, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents and other course materials, to students to review at their convenience.
The AU Teaching Commons is an open access, peer-reviewed digital repository that provides faculty with a space to share and discover original resources and modified resources for their teaching activities. Faculty can submit original resources and modified resources from online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses.
Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
MomentumU@USG (MU@USG) is a virtual professional development space for USG faculty and staff supporting the Momentum Approach to student success. Resources are added each semester in partnership with USG faculty, institutional centers for teaching excellence, and other academic partners across the system.
Speaking of Higher Ed exists to create a resource that will inspire and assist faculty in creating engaging and meaningful learning experiences. We hope to provide higher ed faculty with a platform for sharing research related to the scholarship of teaching and learning, spark new instructional ideas, and promote interdisciplinary instructional methods.
The Center for Instructional Innovation, in conjunction with Information Technology, offer workshops and learning labs to provide pedagogically sound tips and strategies for teaching with technology, as well as hands on labs that focus on the use of instructional tools.
