CEDL- The Center for Excellence in Distance Learning
The Mission of the CEDL The mission of the CEDL is to act as a
catalyst for innovative practices and teaching conducive to preserving the
stellar history and legacy of the education provided by the nation’s HBCUs and
Wiley College using technological tools and the virtual environment and
undergirded by the pooling of intellect, best practices, cultural and global
enrichments and capital and human resources.
The Vision of the CEDL The CEDL becomes a collaborative leader in the processes of dialogue, sharing and learning to effect the qualitative and quantitative transformation of virtual and other learning pursuits at HBCUs and in support of students everywhere.
The CEDL serves as:
Online Courses
The Center’s collaborative process works on:
The Vision of the CEDL The CEDL becomes a collaborative leader in the processes of dialogue, sharing and learning to effect the qualitative and quantitative transformation of virtual and other learning pursuits at HBCUs and in support of students everywhere.
The CEDL serves as:
- A forum for dialogue on virtual teaching and learning at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
- A network of distance learning decision-makers, practitioners and researchers.
- A partnership between HBCUs and other stakeholders.
- A catalyst and clearinghouse for research, collaboration, best practices, resource sharing, dissemination and innovation in distance learning, faculty development, continuing education and global initiatives.
Online Courses
The Center’s collaborative process works on:
- Member institutions identify priority online courses and programs.
- Lumen Learning, a partner to the Center, provides training, support, and initial online course frameworks composed of open educational resources (OER) rather than commercial textbooks.
- Using the course frameworks as a starting point, faculty from multiple institutions work together to review and curate OER content that maps to the course learning outcomes.
- Faculty members further customize and enhance the courses as desired, typically through revising, adapting, remixing and/or adding new content such as culturally-relevant examples. Lumen Learning team members help facilitate this process and provide faculty support in areas such as identifying new OER, licensing/attribution issues, and instructional design.
- Final courses are shared with all members, so others can re-use the courses designed and customized using the Center’s process.