Teacher Resources
Working Together in Moving From Face-to-Face to Online or Blended Learning
We want to assure you that we are here to support your needs as you move to online learning. This page offers resources to help you through this uncertain time and, hopefully makes your transition to online learning an engaging and successful learning experience for you.
This page is a starting point for your online course. We want you to be able to choose the platform and tools that will work for you. We can talk you through some of the important considerations around teaching online if you contact us for teaching support.
Have a look at some of the Video and other Resources we have gathered for more information around how you can use PeppeR, Quercus and Zoom and visit our Wellness page. Have a look at some of the most commonly asked questions by our community when it comes to teaching online. If you haven’t already, please fill this Questionnaire and we will follow up with you for personalized help for your upcoming online course.
Course Template and Other Useful Links
For OISE offered courses, please refer to the OISE Course Outline Explorer or OISE Course Outline Template.
The Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) provides regularly updated resources for teachers planning and conducting remote online classes.
If you have any further questions or need assistance, please contact the OISE Online team directly. We are more than happy to help and provide solutions.
Equity Focused Digital Pedagogy
Fundamentals of Digital Pedagogy and Learning is a great research guide with some important resources on anti-racism, accessibility and international students in Digital Pedagogy and Learning. The course outline template linked on this page also includes information on equity and diversity statements that can be used as a reference while designing an online course.
Responding Racial Bias and Microaggressions in Online Environments is another important webinar on Responding to Racial Bias and Microaggressions in Online Environments by professors J. Luke Wood III and Frank Harris
This webinar may prove useful as many of us quickly transition to online instruction and are in situations where we have to address new forms of racial bias and microaggressions occurring in virtual classroom environments.
Useful Links from the OISE Library
The University Libraries’ Syllabus Service is the key support for course reading lists. University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) librarians will make best efforts to acquire any digital content needed, such as e-books, streaming audio and video through purchase and other vendor agreements. Please note that:
- The Syllabus Service team at Robarts will review your course materials for coverage by the University of Toronto’s Fair Dealing Guidelines or an existing license and negotiate copyright clearance for any items that exceed our current licenses.
- Publishers do not always make e-books available for purchase by libraries(including many textbooks).
OISE librarians can support your students in your online courses as well. Please contact OISE Librarians if you would like to discuss:
- Embedding librarians and library resources in your Quercus courseshell
- Online instruction sessions in your courses (eg. via Zoom)
- Customized library research guides for your course
If new OISE sessional instructors are delayed in gaining university credentials, OISE librarians can help by providing online library access.
To get access, please send an email to reader.reg@utoronto.ca.
The OISE library can provide individual help to anyone teaching a course to put together their readings in an online format and provide web links to those materials—they can make suggestions too and are very familiar with putting courses online.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the OISE Library team.
OISE students and faculty are welcome to: