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Everspring Upgrades Online Teaching Hub for Professors

The Chicago-based ed tech company is expanding its database of how-to guides, white papers, videos and other multimedia resources to help college and university faculty build hybrid and online courses.

A student participating in a lesson from home on a laptop.
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When college and university campuses first started closing due to COVID-19, professors found themselves shifting gears quickly toward hybrid and online courses to meet students where they lived, literally. This was a tectonic change for some, and for others an acceleration of changes already in process. But two years on, many leaders in higher education agree — it’s not a fad, it’s the future. Seeing the writing on the wall, the Chicago-based ed tech company Everspring is growing its proprietary online teaching resource hub with more timely and in-depth content for professors.

The company last week announced the expansion of Envision, its multimedia database of white papers, how-to guides, videos and other resources spanning each stage of the course-development process, which it summarizes as “plan, build, teach.” According to the company’s news release, Envision’s content is created by university faculty and instructional designers, and it’s tagged and searchable based on the user’s role and where they are in the course development process. It covers topic areas such as rubrics, course preparation, student engagement, accessibility, game-based learning and using augmented reality in a classroom setting, among others.

In a public statement, the company’s Vice President of Learning Design Kathy Groth said Everspring’s faculty satisfaction scores are “routinely in the mid- to high-90-percent range.”

“Our expansion of Envision reflects the depth of our commitment to supporting the professional development of our faculty partners by making the platform more content-rich and relevant,” she said.

Everspring’s recent clients include the Milwaukee School of Engineering, which contracted with the company earlier this month for market research, course development and marketing; and Oklahoma City University’s nursing school, which partnered with the company in February for marketing, admissions and student retention services.
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