Advanced Online Teaching Certificate - January 2016

The program objectives enable participants to: 1) leverage their background and proficiencies as educators, administrators, and institutional leaders to become highly effective in the principles and practices of asynchronous instruction, 2) integrate OLC‘s research-based, conceptual and theoretical foundations relating to learning theory and assessment to compliment and personalize their online classroom, and 3) capitalize on their potential as innovators in the field of online education by being challenged to create high quality work products which will be assessed by the program facilitators and their peers.

The Advanced Online Teaching Certificate includes a 3-week foundation course, three 1-hour live synchronous sessions and a final presentations week where you will have the opportunity to present your revised course.

Foundation Course:

Here you will conduct course reviews and develop a revision plan strategy to include more robust assessment strategies, more active learning techniques and either multimedia or social media components in your course.  You will begin building peer-support networks to assist you with your course revision plans.

3 Live Synchronous Sessions:

• Synchronous Session #1: Active Learning Strategies
  This session is an introduction to the pros and cons of active learning as well as a broad range of active learning strategies including (but not limited to) collaborative learning, problem-based learning, inductive learning, and more. You will gain a working knowledge of each of these techniques (including strengths and challenges), discuss when they make sense to consider adopting (based on course instructional objectives and individual teaching style) and develop an assignment that includes the use of at least one of the techniques within your course.
• Synchronous Session #2: Incorporation of Multimedia or Social Media with Consideration for Accessibility Standards
  Get introduced to popular forms of multimedia and social media tools used in higher education to promote student engagement, build connections and communities to share work and increase student participation. You will gain an understanding for common accessibility standards as related to the use of such media. As a result of this session, you will develop at least one assignment that includes the use of multimedia or social media within your course.
• Synchronous Session #3: Assessment Strategies
  Focus now on broadening your knowledge of various assessment techniques (formative and summative) for measuring individual and group student performance in distance learning. In this session, you will engage in a discussion regarding accreditation standards and expectations as related to course and programmatic learning outcomes. After this session, you will enhance your current course learning outcomes, create new and improved existing grading rubrics, and incorporate other assessment strategies – self and peer evaluations, concept mapping, portfolios, journals and learning logs, response groups and more – in your online course.

Final Presentations Week:

During the final week of the program, you will have the opportunity to present your revised course to your fellow participants. You will receive feedback from your peers, as well as an evaluation by the program facilitator. You will be required to both present your own revisions, as well as review the presentations of other participants in the program.

Dr. Donna E. Scribner has more than 35 years of experience in education, as a teacher at the middle, high school and college levels, and in developing and delivering professional development opportunities for teachers. A seasoned conference speaker, she frequently addresses groups on the effective use of technology in the mathematics and engineering curricula, creating instructional environments that support a student’s motivation to engage and persist in learning, and has conducted professional development workshops for teachers all over the country. One of Donna’s frequent messages is about the power and the promise of online learning.

Most recently Donna held the position of Vice President and leader of the Center for Teaching and Learning at American Public University System (APUS). Before joining APUS, Donna was the Chief Learning Officer for Virtual High School Global Consortium (VHS) where she was responsible for overseeing VHS’s online curriculum for students and professional development for teachers. In addition, Donna held the position of the Director of Online Learning for Project Lead the Way (PLTW). She created their Virtual Academy, an online school offering professional development opportunities for teachers to learn the skills and content needed to teach pre-engineering courses. She started at PLTW as a National Associate for Curriculum and Training. While in this position, she traveled the country designing and delivering all day professional development workshops for the PLTW teachers.

Donna holds a BS in Mathematics Education from the University of New Hampshire, a MA in Education from Antioch New England, and a Ph.D. in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University. She lives in NH with her husband of 39 years.

• April 2016 Cohort – Apr-Jul
• July 2016 Cohort – Jul-Sep
• October 2016 Cohort – Oct-Dec

Either 3+ years online teaching experience OR successful completion of the OLC Online Teaching Certificate program plus 1 year of online teaching experience. You must have an online course that you can revise.

No information available.

• $1499 for members and non-members
• No college pass coupons may be used