LiDA e-Modules
Here you can find a set of structured online resources that have been created by LiDA Community members to support educators’ independent learning of key topics related to learning in the digital age. Each “LiDA eModule” consists of a curated collection of readings and videos accompanied by summaries and/or suggested learning activities, while using different formats and structures.
Currently available LiDA eModules – with more continuing to be produced:
Hyflex Teaching and Learning at UofR
Hyflex learning is a flexible approach to education that combines traditional face-to-face learning with online learning. This format has many benefits, but also presents some significant challenges that call for careful planning. Based on research funded by an internal University of Rochester mini-grant, we share insights and concrete strategies to support this planning. Resources include two short videos, along with illustrations and additional tips about specific strategies hyflex instructors should consider.
(Last updated: 2024; created by Kristen Love & Mamunur Rashid)
[Introduction to] Generative AI for Educators
This eModule has been designed for educators new to AI to demystify the powerful world of generative AI, and illustrate its potential and its applications. It is structured around four topics, including for each a guided sequence of videos and texts selected to provide a brief introduction, followed by additional resources for further learning if desired.
(Last updated: 2025; created by Yu Jung Han)
AI Primer for K-12 Leaders
Based on research conducted a part of an NSF RAPID grant (#2333764) about K-12 leaders’ uses and perceptions about AI, this online resources was created to inform and support K-12 leaders’ decision-making about how AI could be uses in their schools. Taking into consideration the many demands on K-12 leaders’ time, it provides a very succinct introduction to AI and its applications to K-12 education, along with suggestions about additional readings.
(Last updated: 2025; created by Raffaella Borasi & Yu Jung Han)
High Leverage Teaching Practices for Remote Teaching
Originally created to support remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, this eModule can help instructors at all levels leverage technology to improve six practices that can make their teaching more effective across subjects and topics. For each practice, we provide an introductory video followed by more detailed information about instructional decisions to be made in implementing that practice and key options worth considering. Alternative suggestions about how to use these digital resources to plan one’s own independent learning are also provided.
(Last updated: 2022; created by Raffaella Borasi)
Developing a shared vision for digitally-rich teaching
Digitally-rich teaching and learning may mean significantly different things to different people – even among educators working in the same institution! To support the development of a shared vision, in this eModule we have included a couple of short videos to provide an image of what digitally-rich classrooms may look like, as well as short videos describing three complementary “models” of instructional technology integration that can be used to inform a discussion of these and other possible examples, in a session that may take as little as one hour.
(Last updated: 2022; created by Raffaella Borasi)
Online Teacher Identity
Online teacher identity – that is, what kind of online teacher one aspires to be – can have significant impact on what, how and why one chooses to teach online. Based on a review of the literature as well as research conducted at the University of Rochester, we have identified here key things to take into considerations about online teacher identity when preparing online teachers and provided references to selected related works.
(Last updated: 2019; created by Fanzana Hafta & Raffaella Borasi)