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2024-2025 CSU Channel Islands OCS Award ePortfolio

Proposal Summary: For AY 2024-2025, CSUCI proposed to provide faculty development for online and multimodal teaching through offerings that are flexible, personalized, practical, and responsive to change technology needs. More specifically, we proposed two primary projects: Faculty Digital Learning Mentors with expertise in AI, and Learning Design Project mini-grants.

We were able to complete both of our main proposal items. Three AI-focused Digital Learning Mentors were selected in September, met monthly throughout the 2024-2025 Academic Year, and were available weekly for consults with faculty on topics related to AI in teaching and learning. They also supported Learning Design Projects as mentors and our Legends of Academia AI course as early participants and sources of feedback and insight. Learning Design Projects launched in Spring Semester with ten successful applicants, and exemplars were submitted to QuARRy in May.

Campus Online Course Service Goals

Campus Goals for Online Course Services

The main focus of CSUCI's 2024-2025 Online Course Services proposal was to support faculty in navigating that rapid pace of digital change, including advances in Generative AI. We prioritized offerings that would maximize personal connection, mentoring, and cultivating innovation and leadership in digital teaching and learning. We also prioritized creating training frameworks that would allow faculty to set manageable goals and achieve them. Our proposal included two primary goals:
  • Goal 1: AI-Focused Digital Learning Mentors
    • Needs served: The Digital Learning Mentor (DLM) program provides opportunities for skilled faculty to mentor and support their colleagues in becoming more effective digital teachers -- with the full backing and technical support of the Teaching and Learning Innovations (TLi) team. This year, the program specifically sought to support faculty navigating the rapid pace of AI change and exploring how to integrate AI into teaching and learning. We recruited three faculty members (one from Chemistry, one from Health Science, and one from the Library) who all offered distinct areas of AI expertise to share with their colleagues. In addition to making themselves available throughout the academic year to consult 1:1 with faculty interested in AI applications for teaching and learning, the DLMs met as a group once a month with members of the TLi team (Stacey Beauregard, Faculty Coordinator of Learning Design, and Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez, Accessibility & Inclusive Design Lead) to discuss recent developments in AI in higher education and advise on AI-related programming. In the spring semester, they served as mentors for faculty working Learning Design Projects with an AI focus, which helped to expand the Teaching and Learning Innovations team's capacity. They were also regularly involved with CI's Legends of Academia AI exploration course, offering insights and sharing tools during synchronous drop-in meetings and providing much-appreciated feedback on course content.
    • AI-Focused Digital Learning Mentors support the following student success goals from the CI 2030+ / One Health Vision: 
      • FAST: Faculty as Scholar and Teachers: Through this organizing concept, CSUCI commits to advancing academic excellence through support for faculty development and pedagogical expertise in active learning, interdisciplinary- and DEIA-focused classroom and field experiences, community engagement, international learning experiences, and other pedagogical approaches for placing students at the center of the educational experience.
  • Goal 2: Learning Design Projects
    • Needs served: Learning design project mini grants, now in their third year, provide individual support to faculty at a range of levels of technical expertise as they work to implement a new tool or digital teaching strategy into an online or blended course. The LDP model is designed to encourage innovation and cultivate faculty leaders in digital learning design. The project infrastructure supports faculty in developing a proposal, working 1:1 with a Teaching and Learning Innovations (TLi) staff member or partner, completing a course update, and submitting an exemplar to QuARRy. 
    • 2024-2025 project options:
      • Accessibility and Universal Design – mentored by Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez, Accessibility & Inclusive Design Lead 
      • Bilingual Course Kits – mentored by Dana Lomax, OCS Faculty Lead
      • Exploring AI – mentored by Breeann Austin, Kristen Linton, and Benny Ng, our 2024-25 AI-Focused Digital Learning Mentors
      • Interactive Videos – mentored by Georgia Van Tyne, Instructional Designer and Learning Design Project Lead
    • Learning Design Projects support the following local student success goals from the CI 2030+ / One Health Vision and Campus Strategic Direction Goals: 
      • LUX: Providing a State-of-the-Art Learning User Experience: This organizing concept provides a comprehensive strategy for providing state-of-the-art digital learning experiences. First is a focus on the learning experience, which includes the development of digital classrooms as well as pedagogies and assignments built around digital tools. The goal is to prepare students who will be able to lead in an increasingly digital world, in part by designing and providing consistently high-quality, digitally enhanced experiences.
      • Academic Excellence: Investing in faculty achievement and academic program continuous improvement.
        • Support and fund scholar-teachers to continually enhance the quality of student academic experiences

          Integrate next generation technological advances into academic programs, ensuring ongoing faculty development in using instructional technologies effectively and innovatively.

Digital Learning Team

Campus Digital Learning Leadership
  • Dr. Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Provost
  • Dr. Jill Leafstedt, Dean of Extended University and Digital Learning
  • Dr. Lorna Gonzalez, Assistant Vice President for Digital Learning
Online Course Services Leads
  • Danna Lomax, OCS Faculty Lead / Lecturer in Education
  • Stacey Beauregard, Faculty Coordinator of Learning Design / Lecturer in English
Teaching and Learning Innovations Team
Academic Technology and Media 
  • Michael McGarry, Academic Technology Team Lead
  • Isaac Ortiz, Instructional Media Technologist 
Accessibility and Inclusive Learning Design
  • Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez – Accessibility & Inclusive Design Lead / Instructional Technologist 
  • Georgia Van Tyne – Learning Designer
  • Ana Peñaranda Leal – Learning Designer
Administrative Support
  • Jennifer Arceo – Administrative Support Coordinator 
Student Assistants
  • Arianna Miller
  • Ellie Blaser 
Selected Highlights of Previous OCS  Accomplishments
  • 20+ CI Learning Design Faculty Projects Accepted as exemplars in QuARRy 
  • 10,790 Learning Online 101 badges issued since 2018
  • 1,582 Writing & Multiliteracy Center (WMC) On Demand Workshops badges issued since 2021
  • 43 CSUCI Faculty, and 32 CSU Guest Faculty and Learning Center Professionals Participated in the Embedded Peer Education Collaborative (EPEC) in 2023-2024
Expanding Online Programs
  • 1 Psychology Online Two-Year Completion Program successfully launched Fall 2023
  • 1 Ed.D. Online Program successfully launched Summer 2024 with Cohort 2 under way in Summer 2025
  • 10 Health Science Courses redesigned in preparation for the Health Science Online Degree Completion Program launching Fall 2024
  • In 2024-2025, CSUCI brought on two new online programs and are working on one more. Each program starts from a common, accessible, QLT-aligned template and the faculty work with a learning design team to add their content. Recently launched and in-progress online programs include:
    • Health Science Degree Completion Program 
    • Masters in Health Administration
    • Computer Science Online Degree Completion Program
    • Masters in Early Childhood Education
    • Business Online Degree Completion Program and MBA program are both mid-program evaluation for learning design feedback and course template upgrades

Conferences and Publications

Dissemination of OCS Efforts — Conferences 

Upcoming
  • Georgia Van Tyne, Instructional Designer, and Stacey Beauregard, Faculty Coordinator of Learning Design, will present "Learning Design Projects: Building Faculty Innovation in Online Spaces" at the UPCEA Summit for Online Leadership and Administration in Portland, OR (July 2025).
2024-2025 Highlights
Dissemination of OCS Efforts — Publications and Other 
Click the image below for more of our team's presentations and accomplishments.

Screenshot of recent presentations by the CI Team, with digital postcards from each conference. Text represented in the plain text in the dissemination of OCS efforts text box.TLi Team Accomplishments


Online Course Services Results

Training Completions

Summary of CSU-Offered Trainings Completed by CI Faculty in 2024-2025

 


Summary of Campus-Based Training Completed by CI Faculty in 2024-2025:

   
 


Additional On-Demand Resources Available at CI in 2024-2025

Student Online Quality Assurance Impact Research
CI is continuing to develop more robust data collection efforts to assess student impact. Efforts in progress:

  • We're currently collecting student impact numbers based on students taught per semester by faculty participating in key TLi and OCS-related initiatives. Data collected this spring from one of our key OCS-funded initiatives, Learning Design Projects, indicated that  up to 800 students will benefit from the technology-enhanced, QLT-aligned updates faculty developed in their supported projects, thanks in part to a particularly high-impact project from one of our faculty librarians.
  • As part of the Channel Your Success HSI equity grant, Teaching and Learning Innovations (TLi) and Student Academic Success and Equity Initiatives (SASEI) have partnered to support CI's Equity Inquiry Projects, which create "a community of scholar-educators who support a vision of coalition-building around equity-minded, data-informed, and students-as-humans-centered teaching & learning." Current Equity Inquiry Project summary data. 
  • Teaching and Learning Innovations has also partnered with the Institutional Research office for the Data + Pedagogy program, which supports faculty in using Class Dashboard data to adapt their courses to better serve student needs. TLi and IR have compiled "research-based instructional moves and resources" that faculty might use to respond to "seven scenarios illuminated by the robust institutional data available on the Class Dashboard." Although the formal program was largely on hiatus in 2024-2025, the website remains a valuable resource, and the program has potential for ongoing development. 


Development of Campus Online Course Services Resources

Legends of Academia: A quest to explore AI in teaching and learning. Trailer:



AI Basecamp: CSUCI’s AI Basecamp empowered our community to collaborate, share knowledge, and showcase applications of AI to enhance our work. 

Objectives:
  • Increase awareness about the current state & future potential of AI, as well as the place of this timely topic in the context of a vision for CI in 2030 and beyond
  • Networking opportunities to connect with experts, peers, and industry leaders in discussions about AI
  • Showcase practical applications to inspire creative thinking and practical implementation
  • Facilitate critical conversations about the implications of AI diffusion
  • Possible skill development w/workshops or demos
  • Collect feedback and insights to inform future AI-related initiatives

AI Summer Residency: Faculty and staff are invited to join the TLi team to develop AI literacies and to explore artificial intelligence tools.
  • Six-week commitment with TLi (anticipated total of about 20 hours)
  • 1 hour Zoom meetings over the 6 weeks. Meetings include a rotation for a demo (someone comes prepared to share something), ah-ha sharing, group testing
  • Expectation of at least 1 hour of exploration/play between meetings
  • Possible progress report at Fall 2025 AI-related events or meetings
  • Invited TLi blog post during AY 2025-2026 (approx. 900 words; co-authorship welcome)
Learning Design Projects: Work with a TLi mentor and receive a $700 stipend to implement a small, high-impact change in your course.
  • At a glance:
    • Open to all CSUCI faculty (lecturers, tenure-track, and tenured)
    • Projects must be hosted in Canvas and can support in-person, online, or blended courses
    • Matched mentorship – Each faculty participant will be paired with a TLi mentor for guidance
    • Flexible implementation – Projects must be completed in Spring 2025 but can be used with students in any semester
    • Meets QLT standards – Each project must align with two criteria from the Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) Rubric
  • Project options: Choose from one of four TLi-supported project categories, each tailored to different teaching interests and course needs:
    • Option 1: Accessibility and Universal Design
    • Option 2: Exploring AI
    • Option 3: Bilingual Canvas Course Kit 
    • Option 4: Interactive Video
Equity Inquiry Projects: The Equity Inquiry Project is a community of scholar-educators who support a vision of coalition-building around equity-minded, data-informed, and students-as-humans-centered teaching & learning. 2024-2025 Fellows' Projects are available at the link above. 
Course Starter Kit: Foundational template in Canvas for building effective online courses. 
Bilingual Course Starter Kit: With the goal of uplifting Latine students’ primary language, we have two bilingual Canvas course starter kits that faculty can import and customize based on their instructional approach. 
Course Planner: Interactive guide for faculty developing online courses. 
Course Tuner GPT*: Course development GPT trained on instructional design frameworks and the QLT rubric.
    *requires an active ChatGPT EDU account


Accessibility/UDL Efforts

In 2024-2025, CSU Channel Islands has continued its ongoing to commitment to accessibility and inclusive design by making accessibility a central feature of our faculty trainings, rolling out new accessibility tools, and embracing the potential of AI to help provide more accessible content for all learners.

 
Accessibility Highlights

Next Steps for OCS Efforts 
In the coming year, we plan to:

  • Continue to improve accessibility in online courses and meet Title II requirements

    Continue to support learning design projects that support relevant improvement topics (e.g., AI, Accessibility, engagement techniques.)

    Onboard faculty to new academic technologies and changes in Canvas

    Facilitate OneHE faculty inquiry projects centered around teaching & learning in higher education

  • Streamline learning design and course development processes for new online programs and courses, with an emphasis on quality assurance.