Program Overviews
Online Teaching Certificate Program
Leverage your background and proficiencies as an educator, administrator, or institutional leader to become a more effective online/digital teaching & learning professional.
The OLC Online Teaching Certificate Program, leading from the conceptual to the implementation of online learning best practices, is offered as a sequence of one foundation course, followed by elective courses and creation or revision of an online course under the guidance of a mentor. At the end of this program, you will be prepared to design and develop a complete online or blended course based on current research and best practices.
Advanced Online Certificate Program
The OLC Advanced Online Teaching Certificate Program is a 12-week workshop designed to help educators fine-tune existing online courses and degree programs in order to have a positive impact on student learning.
The program is intended for those online faculty who wish to improve their online courses through the inclusion of active learning strategies, multimedia, and social media components, and stronger assessment practices.
The Online Teaching Certificate Program
The OLC Online Teaching Certificate prepares educators to teach and improve online courses using the OLC pillars of quality in online education—learning effectiveness, scale, faculty and student satisfaction, and access. A unique feature of the certificate program is that expert mentors work individually with each certificate candidate to accomplish specific goals.
The Certificate consists of three phases:
- Phase 1: Ten-week foundation course
- Phase 2: Electives that focus on improving overall competency within a specific path of focus
- Phase 3: Participant-built online course and presentation of that course for feedback using the OLC QCTIP Quality Scorecard
Who should take this program?
- Faculty interested in developing quality online and/or blended courses
- Instructional designers and Instructional support staff
Prerequisites
- At least some online teaching experience or completion of the Essentials for Online Faculty
workshop - An online or blended course that the participant can revise or create that is at least two weeks
in duration.
Key Takeaways
- Become highly effective in the principles and practices of asynchronous instruction
- Integrate OLC‘s research-based, conceptual and theoretical foundations relating to learning
theory and assessment to complement and personalize your online classroom - Create high-quality work products that will be assessed by the program facilitators, a mentor,
and your peers - Collect helpful resources, templates and sample rubrics
- Build an online course with a syllabus and assessments personalized for your teaching needs
Program Registration Options & Fees
$2,100 (Institutional Members) / $2,310 (Professional Members) / $2,630 (non-members)
Advanced Online Teaching Certificate Program
The OLC Advanced Online Teaching Certificate Program is a 12-week workshop designed to help educators fine-tune existing online courses and degree programs in order to have a positive impact on student learning. You’ll start with critically analyzing one of your own courses to determine how close, or far, you are from the best practices described in the OSCQR Course Design Review, the Quality Course Teaching and Instructional Practice (QCTIP) scorecard, and the Peralta Online Equity Rubric.
Topics Include:
- Quality Rubrics for Course Evaluation
- Assessment
- Interaction and Collaboration
- Student Engagement
- Video and Multimedia
Who Should Take this Program?
- Faculty who want to enhance and strengthen current skills to become more effective in the principles and practices of online teaching.
Prerequisites
To be successful in the OLC Advanced Teaching Certificate program, participants need the following:
- It is strongly recommended that you have either have taught at least 3+ years online
- OR have successfully completed the OLC Online Teaching Certificate program AND taught at
least 1 year online.
Program Outcomes
- Leverage your background and proficiencies as an educator, administrator, and institutional leader to become highly effective in the principles and practices of asynchronous instruction.
- Integrate OLC‘s research-based, conceptual and theoretical foundations relating to learning theory and assessment to complement and personalize your online classroom
- Capitalize on your potential as an innovator in the field of online education by being challenged to create high-quality work products which will be assessed by the program facilitator and peers
Program Registration Fees
$1,580 (Institutional Members) / $1,730 (Professional Members) / $1,940 (Non-members)