Become a Certified Online Instructor (COI)
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.

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.

 

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

 

 

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, includes book; William A. Draves and Dr. Mary Dereshiwsky, instructors.


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 The Online Teaching Survival Guide.

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


Building Online Learning Communities
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, includes book; Dr. Rena Palloff and Dr. Keith Pratt, instructors.

 

About online learning

Online learning is a fun, enjoyable and very productive way to learn. Millions of people are learning online each year. You will engage with the instructor and other participants. You will get to know your instructor and other participants. You may make friends.  It’s easy. It’s fun. 

How the Course Works

It is easy to participate in your online course. After you register, you will be given a web address to go to get into your online classroom.  You will have a password and use your email address and password to gain access.

Once inside the online classroom, here’s what you can expect.

Participate when you want

You can participate any time of day or evening. The online classroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
There are no live real-time requirements or meetings. You decide when you participate.
For the best learning, participants should log into the course on 2-3 different days of the week.

What you will do

For each Unit, you will:

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

• Have the option of accessing the online readings

• Listen to the audio presentation for the Unit and view the slides
• Have the option of taking a self-quiz to see how much you have learned
• Engage in written online discussion with your instructor and other participants

For best learning, you should make one or more comments at 2-3 different times each day, since it is a week long course.

The content (readings, audio lectures, slides) and self quizzes are accessible for the entire course, so you can work ahead, or go back and review again, at your convenience.

Discussion

The Discussion for each Unit lasts one week. All comments are made in writing and can be made at any time of the day or night.

Your instructor will log into the Discussion area at least once a day and answer questions, make comments, and respond to comments by you and the other participants.

We encourage you to make 2-3 comments each day to maximize your learning and enjoyment of the course.

It’s easy. It’s fun.

Next offering(s):
July 1 - 26
October 7 - November 1

Certified Online Instructor (COI), $795 for all 3 courses, including books (more info in course description). 

Certificate in Online Teaching, $495 for all 3 courses, including books. Take the courses in any order you choose.

Ave. hours 48, 4.8 CEUs/ILUs

About Your Instructors

Dr. Rita-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. 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.

Palloff and Pratt are managing partners in Crossroads Consulting Group. They have also taught online courses at several universities.

William 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.  

Dr. Mary 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.