Universities have become accustomed to steady growth in their online programs. When the COVID pandemic began, most also faced the related challenge of a sudden need for emergency remote teaching. This article explores the development of concise demonstration videos to support online and remote faculty at a large Hispanic-serving Research 1…

The open educational resource (OER) movement has the potential to have a truly transformative effect on higher education, but in order to do so it must move into the mainstream and facilitate widespread participation in the sharing or creating of resources and in their reuse. To help in this process, experience can be gained from projects and…

This paper presents the challenges involved in designing a full set of online tutorial materials for a beginners' Spanish course for distance language learners utilising an online audiographic conferencing VLE for synchronous oral interaction. Although much has been written about task design and task-based learning and teaching (TBLT) in language…