In response to campuses moving to online instruction due to the COVID-19 health emergency, IFT is curating online teaching resources and is making them available to support our food science academic community. If you have additional recommended online resources to share with our community, please share them with [email protected]. Thank you!

Teaching Resources

To support the academic community, universities are providing resources to educators transitioning their classes from an in-person to an online format.

• Food engineering resources by Dr. Paul Singh
• Virtual Teaching Resources
• The Ohio State University
• Michigan State University
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of California, Davis
• University of Florida

Move your course online

• Six tips for moving your course online
  An IFT presentation by Alexandra Santau, PhD
• Tips for recording labs (PDF), University of Arkansas

News in Higher Education

• Coronavirus hits campus – Complete coverage by the Chronicle of Higher Education (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• 6 ways colleges might look different in the fall (NPR, audio)
• Another Crack at Measuring Colleges' Financial Strength (Inside Higher Ed)
• The Shift to Remote and What's Ahead for Fall: Your Turn (Inside Higher Ed)

Technology options

• Zoom: for large or small live sessions, group discussions, chat, recordings
• Canvas: Learning Management System (LMS), can be integrated with Zoom 
• Microsoft Teams: small group video/audio, chat
• Wacom Pen Tablets: problem-based activities
• Screencast-o-matic: recordings, student presentations
• Jing: recordings, student presentations
• WebEx
• Desire2Learn (D2L)
• Yuja
• VidGrid

Miscellaneous

• Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption (Google Doc). Stanford University
• Remote Teaching Resources for Business Continuity (Google Doc). DePaul University 
• Please do a bad job of putting your course online (Blog Post). Barrett-Fox, R. (2020).
• Six Seconds, The Emotional Intelligence Network (YouTube Channel). Freeman, J. (2020).
• From the Chronicle of Higher education: 
  How to Help Students Keep Learning Through a Disruption
  Opinion: Make All Courses Pass/Fail Now
• Food Science Animations. R. Paul Singh (2013).
• ‘Zoombombing’ Attacks Disrupt Classes, Elizabeth Redden (2020).
• Professors Learn to Teach Remotely While Watching Their Kids. Beckie Supiano (2020).
• Don’t Forget About Graduate Students. Nadirah Farah Foley (2020).
• How to Keep the Crashers Out of Your Zoom Event. Zoom (2020).

Just for fun

• Michael Bruening's rendition of I Will Survive Coronavirus: Version for teachers going online