The Online Teaching and Advanced Online Teaching Certificates draw on the latest information and research regarding methods, tools, and best practices for teaching in an online or digital environment.
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.
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 OLC Online Teaching Certificate prepares educators to teach and improve online courses using the OLC Dimensions of Quality in online education—learning effectiveness, learner experience, instructor experience, scale, and access. A unique feature of the certificate program is that expert mentors work individually with each certificate candidate to accomplish specific goals.
Overview: The OLC Online Teaching Certificate Program Foundation Course prepares educators to teach and improve online courses using the Pillars of Quality in Online Education: learning effectiveness, scale, faculty and student satisfaction, and access. The Foundation course is 10-weeks, asynchronous, and facilitated by an expert in online teaching.
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Overview: OTC participants can choose to take one 4-week Mastery Series for their elective. Options include the Instructional Design Mastery Series or the Online Nursing and Health Professions Mastery Series.
In the 4-week Instructional Design Mastery Series, you will build or improve an online or blended course while learning important concepts and tools for online course design through a series of steps following the ADDIE instructional design model.
In the Online Nursing and Health Professions Mastery Series, you’ll tackle issues specific to your discipline as you learn models and techniques for increasing teaching, social, and cognitive presence.
This elective option is perfect for faculty or new instructional designers who want to take a deeper dive into designing online courses.
By completing this option, you’ll earn the Mastery Series digital badge!
Overview: Choose a skills pathway and take any three of the one-week or self-paced workshops included in that pathway.
When you select and successfully complete this option, you’ll earn a digital badge in the pathway you chose!
Skills Pathways Available:
Overview: Take any 4-week workshop OR three one-week/self-paced workshops to choose your own focus area(s).
Note: Essentials workshop and ID certificate workshops excluded.
Workshops Available:
Overview: During their time in the Online Teaching Certificate Program, participants will build a complete online or blended course. With the guidance of an expert mentor and experience gained through taking electives, the participant will build that course and present it to the mentor within one year of beginning the program. The mentor, using the OLC Course Review Scorecard, will review the course against the standards set forth in the scorecard and will give valuable feedback for improvement in areas as needed. Finally, the course will receive final review and the participant will receive a certificate of completion for the program!
Design and develop, or revise a complete online or blended course based on current research and best practices
$2,100 (Institutional Members) / $2,310 (Professional Members) / $2,630 (non-members)
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.
Faculty who want to enhance and strengthen current skills to become more effective in the principles and practices of online teaching.
To be successful in the OLC Advanced Teaching Certificate program, participants need the following:
$1,580 (Institutional Members) / $1,730 (Professional Members) / $1,940 (Non-members)