Teaching Online Successfully

Professional development to ensure successful distance courses

Teaching Online Successfully – The Courses

Teaching Online Successfully: Create

This course fulfills the credentialing requirement for new distance instructors at Harper, faculty must complete this course or Teaching Online Successfully: Facilitate.

Description: This course prepares and supports faculty who are developing an distance course in Blackboard, and any faculty who have an interest in exploring best practices in online and blended course design. Faculty will learn about critical components of quality course design, receive an introduction to the OSCQR rubric used at Harper for evaluating online and blended course design quality, modify an existing course syllabus for use in an online or blended format, and build one complete course module inside a provided model course shell in Blackboard.
Delivery Format: Fully online course in Blackboard
GECs: 1
Upcoming Dates/Registration: Visit the Academy GEC page for upcoming dates and registration information.

Teaching Online Successfully: Facilitate

This course fulfills the credentialing requirement for new online/blended instructors at Harper, faculty must complete this course or Teaching Online Successfully: Create.

Description: This course prepares and supports faculty who are teaching a distance course in Blackboard, and any faculty who have an interest in exploring best practices in online and blended course facilitation. Faculty will learn about critical components of effective course management and communication, develop a faculty schedule to aid in the management of their course, and enhance their course and syllabus using tools to encourage faculty-student and student-student interaction.
Delivery Format: Fully online course in Blackboard
GECs: 1
Upcoming Dates/Registration: Visit the Academy GEC page for upcoming dates and registration information.

Teaching Online Successfully: Enhance

Description: This course provides faculty with tools and techniques to enhance their online course in ways that encourage student engagement. Faculty will explore basic screencasting/lecture capture tools and best practices, incorporate web-based tools into their course, use Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor for online exam proctoring, facilitate group work inside of Blackboard, and make online materials accessible for students and compliant with copyright guidelines.
Delivery Format: Fully online course in Blackboard
GECs: 1
Upcoming Dates/Registration: Visit the Academy GEC page for upcoming dates and registration information.

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Online & Blended Teaching