The Planning Instructional Variety for Online Teaching (PIVOT) group project was selected to receive the spring 2021 Job Well Done Award.
In spring 2020, UMBC announced a transition from mostly face-to-face and some hybrid/online course delivery to campus-wide remote instruction in response to COVID-19. The Planning Instructional Variety for Online Teaching (PIVOT) program was grounded in the evidence-based, course design principles from Quality Matters for how people learn and shared many of the best practices of teaching in face-to-face classrooms, but leveraged those principles and adapted the practices to the online environment. The program involved a cross-unit collaboration between DoIT’s Instructional Technology team and three Colleges involving twenty-five (25) faculty peer mentors supporting their colleagues over the course of the program itself and into the semester’s instruction.
Congratulations to the PIVOT project members.
Mariann Hawken
Susan Biro
Susan Biro
Collin Sullivan
Tom Penniston
Jalisa Monroe
Laura Wyatt
Jalisa Monroe
Laura Wyatt
Peter Ariev
Josh Abrams
John Fritz
Sherri Braxton