Certificate in Online Teaching

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.

Online certificate, three one-week courses; $795 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, March 22-26; April 19-23; August 23-27; and October 18-22; $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, May 3-7; Nov 1-5; $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, March 8-12; July 26-30; Nov 15-19; $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 once a day to answer questions and join in on the discussion.
  3. You also get a text to read 20 pages a week.
  4. Participate any time of day or night, as little or as often as you like. The ideal is to go online 2-3 times a week, 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 offerings:

Advanced Teaching Online
August 23-27, 2010

Designing Online Instruction
November 1-5, 2010

Building Online Communities in Cyberspace
July 26-30, 2010

About Your Instructors

Dr. Rita-Marie ConradRita-Marie Conrad is coauthor of Faculty Guide to Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web, which assists faculty nationwide with decisions regarding the move of a course to the Web and is also the coauthor of Engaging the Online Learner: Activities for Creative Instruction which provides activities to develop an interactive online learning community.

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.