Out of Chaos Comes Promise: How CourseFlow can support online learning and teaching

COVID-19 forced high education instructors into an emergency remote teaching few were prepared for. As professionals we turn to the research for solutions, but even they didn’t offer sufficient solutions to match this unprecedented experience. Along with the stress of feeling in “free-fall” came insights and possibilities. In this presentation we will describe one of these solutions, our SALTISE CourseFlow tool. Growing out of a design based research study (DBR), CourseFlow is built as a research-practice partnerships (RPP; Penuel & Coburn, 2013). Like a Rosetta Stone, it allows stakeholders to communicate across boundaries. CourseFlow’s visualization of context and content makes it a tool with potential for communicating the complexity of online instruction to students, as well as keeping track of workflow for faculty. In this presentation we will describe the tool and showcase some of the cases where it has been used to support online teaching.