For those new to teaching online, or those already teaching online. Get the best instruction from the foremost authorities in online learning.  Thousands of people have taken this fundamental yet advanced training in teaching online.

From building an online course to improving an online course, from fostering online discussion to encouraging student interaction, from traditional assessment to online tests, the program will give you both the fundamentals of teaching online, as well as the most advanced tips and techniques in the business.  Your instructors are authors, speakers and consultants in online learning and teaching.

Certificate in Online Teaching, three one-week courses; $495 for all 3 courses, including books; take the courses in any order you choose. 

OPTIONAL, Become a Certified Online Instructor(COI):  three one-week courses; $795 for all 3 courses, including books; take the courses in any order you choose.  Certified Online Instructor (COI) requires the registrant to take a 50 question exam. The registrant will have their students evaluate one of their online courses, and the Chair of the LERN Faculty Advisory Board will critique one of the registrant’s online courses.

 

 

Individual Courses

Advanced Teaching Online

In the 21st century, half of all learning will be online.  The opportunities are tremendous for teaching online.  Discover how to plan, develop and teach an online course. Take home a ten step model for developing your online course.  Experience one of the most advanced online classrooms for teachers. Learn how to create online audio lectures with slide shows. Find out how self quizzes enhance learning.

See an animation, drop-and-drop exercise, and dynamite welcome pages.  Engage in online discussion with other teachers. An instructor’s book, Advanced Teaching Online, is included.

Online, one-week, $195, includes book; William A. Draves and Mary Dereshiwsky, instructors.

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Designing Online Instruction

Learn about the online instructional environment, envisioning your online course, developing a web course, phases of design and development, design guidelines, and more.

Discover the principles behind the adoption of technology innovation and the nature of the online learning environment. Then get tips for planning your online course, identifying resources and design guidelines.

Discuss the phases of design and development and models, motivating student-student interaction, and managing interaction.  Get the latest information on copyright issues, assessment and evaluation.

Your instructor is co-author of the book Faculty Guide to Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web.

Online, one week, $195, includes book; Rita Marie Conrad, instructor.

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Building Online Communities in Cyberspace

In the online classroom it is the relationships and interactions among people through which knowledge is primarily generated.  Come learn how to do it with the foremost authorities and authors of the popular book by the same title.

Acquire a new understanding of redefining community in cyberspace.  Find out the importance of a learning community.  Learn about dialogue as inquiry, negotiating discussion guidelines, and intergroup and other forms of collaboration.

Online, one week, $195, includes book; Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt, instructors.

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ChecklistWhat You do:

  1. In the online classroom, listen to audio lectures, view slides, even take an optional quiz to test yourself.
  2. Then post comments in the online discussion with your fellow participants and the instructor.  Your instructor logs on atleast once a day to answer questions and join in on the discussion.

  3. Readings are assigned for each day from the textbooks provided at registration.

  4. Participate any time of day or night. The ideal is to go online 2-3 times a day since they are week-long courses, but you decide.

It’s easy! It’s fun.

Mac MiniTechnical requirements:
-Internet access with Internet Explorer; Firefox Mozilla; or Safari web browser.
-Audio software such as Windows Media, Real, or Flash.
-Speakers to listen to audio.

Next offering(s):

Advanced Teaching Online
August 20 - 24
October 22 - 26

Building Online Learning Communities
July 16 - 20
December 3 - 7

Designing Online Instruction
May 21 - 25
November 5 - 9

$195 each, or $495 for all 3 courses (certificate), or $795 to become a Certified Online Instructor (COI) with all 3 courses (more info in  course description)

 

 

About Your Instructors

Dr. Rita Marie ConradRita-Marie Conrad is an online faculty member for Fielding Graduate Institute and Walden University as well as Senior Consultant for the Learning Resources Network (LERN). She began her online career and spent over a decade at Florida State University where she developed and led two online programs: the Instructional Systems major in Performance Improvement and Human Resource Development, and the Instructional Systems major in Open and Distance Learning. She has designed and taught online courses on topics such as online collaboration, learning theories, designing online instruction, and developing eLearning strategies for training programs.

Rita has consulted on the design and implementation of online learning courses, evaluated online programs, managed technology-related projects, and provided educational technology consulting and training to K-12 teachers and higher education faculty. She interacts with hundreds of faculty as an online instructor for courses such as Designing Online Instruction sponsored by the Learning Resources Network (LERN). She has presented at conferences sponsored by the International Council for Distance Education (ICDE), the University of Wisconsin, the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, League of Innovation, and the Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT) on a variety of online learning topics.

She co-authored two books with Judith Boettcher, Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web in 1999 and 2004,and The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips (2010). She wrote Engaging the Online Learner in 2004 with J. Ana Donaldson, and Assessing Learners Online in 2008 with Albert Oosterhof and Donald Ely. Rita has a Ph.D. in instructional systems from Florida State University and a Master’s degree in educational media and computers from Arizona State University.


Dr. Keith PrattDr. Rena M. Palloff and Dr. Keith Pratt
As authors of Building Online Learning Communities, Palloff and Pratt are two of the foremost authorities on online learning, and highly sought after presenters.

Dr. Rena M PalloffPalloff and Pratt are managing partners in Crossroads Consulting Group. They have also taught online courses at several universities.


William A. DravesWilliam A. Draves is author of the book Advanced Teaching Online. More than 6,000 faculty and teachers have taken his online courses. He does consulting and training on creating online courses, and has been interviewed by Wired.com, The New York Times, NPR, NBC Nightly News, and other media.

Mary DereshiwskyMary Dereshiwsky is an expert in online teaching and creator of the online teaching technique “continuous engagement.”  She is a professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches graduate courses online.  She has taught other instructors how to teach online for more than five years.

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