Teaching Online Faculty Development Model
A Focused Approach to Designing and Delivering High Quality Distance Learning
Teaching Online Tool Essentials (TOL4100)
AVAILABLE CONTINUOUSLY
This course is appropriate for all instructors utilizing the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) at UNF. Six modules cover the LMS, incorporating best practices for tool use in each:
1) About Blackboard
2) Content
3) Communication
4) Assessment
5) Collaboration
6) Customization
Each module contains learning objectives, tool overviews, best practices, an assessment activity, and an optional advanced unit. Self-paced course; register and start at any time. 6 – 8 hours.
Online Course Delivery (TOL5100)
NEXT START DATE JUNE 16
This course was designed primarily for part-time faculty. Participants learn about the important pedagogical, logistical, and technological issues involved in delivering effective online courses.
- Six-week asynchronous course with live instructor; register and start in any semester.
- 25 hours
- Prerequisite: Teaching Online Tool Essentials (TOL 4100)
- Participation is based on chair nomination.
- Compensation ($1500 stipend) is available for participants upon successful course completion and certification will be awarded.
This course prepares instructors to develop and deliver a fully online course. The experience combines online coursework, cohort-based seminars, and consultation. The course addresses the important pedagogical, logistical, and technological issues involved in designing and delivering effective online courses.
- Facilitated cohort in a blended format.
- 80 hours
- Typically offered 2x a year.
- Call for proposals will be announced in early Fall.
- All courses developed in TOL6100 will be reviewed using the Rubric for Online Instruction.
- Compensation ($2000 stipend and $2000 DL Development budget) is available to participants upon successful course review and certification will be awarded.
Ongoing Professional Development
Instructors who have completed TOL5100 or TOL6100 are eligible to take up to two Sloan-C workshops at no cost. The CIRT Events schedule provides additional opportunities for ongoing professional development from CIRT staff in addition to webinars from national organizations including the Educause Learning Initiative, Academic Impressions, the Sloan Foundation, and the New Media Consortium.
National Certification
Alumni of TOL 6100 may apply for a seat in the national iON Master Online Teacher certificate program. This rigorous 18-month program recognizes and certifies faculty, staff, and administrators who achieve a measurable level of knowledge related to online course design, online instruction, and other issues related to online teaching and learning. A limited number of spots will be funded each year and stipends available to participants. Faculty who achieve national certification are expected to provide service to the university community in the form of mentoring, course review, and/or workshop delivery. Contact CIRT for more information.
National Certification provided by the Illinois Online Network.
