Advanced Online Teaching Certificate - October 2015
Date:
October 16, 2015 - 12:00pm - January 09, 2016 - 11:59pm (ET)
Advanced Online Teaching Certificate - October 2015
Description
The OLC Advanced Online Teaching Certificate Program is designed to help educators fine-tune existing distance learning courses and degree programs using the OLC Pillars of Quality in Online Education: learning effectiveness, scale, faculty and student satisfaction, and access.
Learning Objectives
The program will help you to:
- Include more robust assessment strategies and active learning techniques in your online courses
- Add multimedia and social media components for student engagement and community building
- Explore active learning strategies – collaborative learning, problem-based learning and inductive learning
- Learn assessment techniques for measuring individual and group learning outcomes
- Stay ahead of the rapidly changing technology challenges and increase your effectiveness in online teaching
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.
| October 16, 12:00 – 2:00pm ET |
Live Kick Off Session This first live synchronous session is designed to welcome participants to the program, introduce them to the facilitator and share the overview of the program. This session will cover guidelines for online course and program quality, effective practices, and ways for enhancing social presence online. |
| October 12 – November 1 |
Foundation Course During the foundation course 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. In addition, you will begin building peer-support networks to assist you with your course revision plans. |
| November 10, 2015, 2:00 – 3:00pm ET |
Synchronous Session #1: Active Learning Strategies In this synchronous session, participants will be introduced 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 so on. Participants 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 their course. |
| November 24, 2015, 2:00 – 3:00pm ET |
Synchronous Session #2: Incorporation of Multimedia or Social Media with Consideration for Accessibility Standards In this synchronous session, participants will be 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. Participants will also gain an understanding for common accessibility standards as related to the use of such media. As a result of this session, participants will develop at least one assignment that includes the use of multimedia or social media within their course. |
| December 8, 2015, 2:00 – 3:00pm ET |
Synchronous Session #3: Assessment Strategies In this synchronous session, participants will broaden their knowledge of various assessment techniques (formative and summative) for measuring individual and group student performance in distance learning. Participants will also engage in a discussion regarding accreditation standards/expectations as related to course and programmatic learning outcomes. After attending in this session, participants will be expected to enhance their current course learning outcomes, create new and improve existing grading rubrics, and incorporate other assessment strategies (i.e., self- and peer- evaluations, concept mapping, portfolios, journals and learning logs, response groups and so on) as necessary. |
| January 4 – January 9, 2016 |
Final Week: Final Presentations During the final week of the program, everyone will present their revised courses. Each participant will be provided with feedback from their peers as well as the program facilitator. Each participant will be required to present their own revised course, and also review the presentations of other participants to provide feedback. |
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No additional dates.
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.
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- $1499 for members and non-members
- No college pass coupons may be used