| EIGHT-WEEK COURSES |
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| *Combo Course for Instructor Certification |
for CDL/CCC approved participants only |
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| *Encouraging Communication in Online Courses |
This instructor-led, eight-week, fully-online course addresses how to promote effective communication among students and between students and instructors in online courses. |
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| *Instructional Design for Online Course Development |
This course introduces instructional design principles and relates the principles to the development of online courses. |
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| *Online Learning: An Overview |
This course is an overview of online learning and teaching and introduces the key elements of an online program. |
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| *Online Learning: An Overview for Fanshawe College |
This course is an overview of online learning and teaching and introduces the key elements of an online program. Participants from Fanshawe College only. |
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| *Practicum |
The Practicum is the final course in the certificate program. Practicum participants will work with a small group of peers and one MVCR instructor to develop or improve an online course. |
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| *Practicum for Online Learning Administrators |
Capstone in COLA program applies previously covered material and adds activities to complete the online learning administrator certification. |
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| *Quality Assurance and Accountability in Online/Distance Learning |
Examination of Quality assurance strategies and issues. Review of processes, philosophies, and strategies for building appropriate accountability processes into online learning programs toward the successful accreditation of online degrees and integration of online programs into the mainstream institutional catalog. |
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| *Student Assessment in Online Courses |
This course addresses various assessment formats that can be used for evaluating students in online courses. |
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| *Technology Tools for Online Learning |
This instructor-led, eight-week, fully-online course explores some of the technology tools used to build and deliver online courses. |
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| Administration of Online/Distance Programs |
Detailed examination of executive/management level issues and considerations directly related to the creation, maintenance, and operation of a successful online learning program. |
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| Blended – Hybrid Learning Design and Instruction |
This course provides instructors an introduction to learning theory, experience using technologies they might adopt in their own courses, and experience redesigning part of a course that could be offered in a hybrid format. |
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| Copyright, the TEACH Act, and Intellectual Property Issues in Education |
This instructor-led, eight-week, fully-online course explores Intellectual Property law and Fair Use Guidelines as they relate to the Internet in academic contexts. |
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| Global eLearning |
This course will provide for you an international perspective on e-learning with the goal of helping you to be prepared for international students in your traditional or online courses, and to offer international e-learning or training within or outside of the context of your institution and your country. |
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| Issues and Strategies for Faculty Training |
This course addresses various models for faculty training and explores the literature to see what works with faculty training. |
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| Multimedia Principles for Online Educators |
The purpose of this course is to introduce educators to the principles of multimedia as they apply to effective online education. |
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| Online Learning: An Overview for Administrators |
This course is an introduction to online teaching and learning for deans, department heads and other administrators. |
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| Supporting Students Online |
Providing support services to online students is a challenge. In this course you will gather ideas and discuss ways of providing electronically delivered services to online and onground students. Participants will learn the scope of online services, review best practices, and discuss ways of implementing these services. |
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| Universal Design Principles for Online Learning |
In this hands-on course you will discover how principles of Universal Design can help you create course content that can be accessed and used by anyone, including people with disabilities. By the end of the course, participants will have a good understanding of Universal Design Principles for Online Learning, know potential accessibility/usability issues that need to be considered in course design, and be able to create more accessible/usable course content. |
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| Web Design Principles for Online Educators |
The purpose of this course is to introduce educators to web design principles that can be used to create effective online courses. |
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| ADVANCED ONLINE SEMINARS |
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| Time Management for Online Instructors |
This course explores time management strategies for online courses. It includes strategies for saving time during the design and development of the course, as well as useful techniques for saving time during the facilitation of the course. |
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| Tutoring Online: Principles and Practice |
This course is instructor-led, fully online, and four weeks in length. It introduces the principles of tutoring and how those principles can be accomplished in the online environment. Participants will actively discuss topics related to tutoring and have the opportunity to tutor a peer online. |
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| Synchronous Classrooms |
This instructor-led, four-week, fully-online course will move beyond the well-known asynchronous learning environment and explore the ideas behind and skills needed to teach online in real time - synchronously. By addressing the pedagogical foundations first and then identifying and practicing the new skill sets, the course will prepare participants to better plan and manage the synchronous classroom. |
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| Podcasting |
This instructor-led, four-week, fully-online course will explore the world of podcasting and the development of content-centered podcasts. Pedagogical considerations will be addressed first and then requisite podcasting skills developed. The course will prepare participants to organize, record, edit, and distribute their own podcasts. |
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| Mobile Technologies in Online Learning |
This course assists participants in discovering various mobile technologies as they might be applied to distance learning. Students will survey various technology formats, analyzing for strengths and weaknesses of each. Students will design, create, and present a learning unit in mobile learning format appropriate to their primary student demographic. |
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| Group Work Online |
This course will explore explore in detail the dynamics of creating group assignments and facilitating group work-based learning in an online environment. |
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| Social Networking for Online Learning |
This course examines the use of social networking in the context of online learning. Students explore current social networking technologies and best practices for using social networking strategies to foster online community. |
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| Administrator of Online Learning Seminar |
4 week orientation and survey of online administration issues and topics. This course is required for successful completion of the Certified Online Learning Administrator program |
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