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DEC-101 Online Teaching Certification Course Kevin Scritchfield | Instructional Designer Fresno City College [email protected] | @kscritch Creator of Alge-Bingo an Algebra Bingo game for the iPad & iPhone Adjunct Professor | Fresno Pacific University Continuing Education/Degree Completion/MAED Cloud Computing for Educators Twitter as a Professional Development Tool The Flipped Classroom Create a Classroom Website Math 121/136/137 The Connected Educator
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DEC-101 Online Teaching Certification Course
Kevin Scritchfield | Instructional DesignerFresno City College
[email protected] | @kscritch
Creator of Alge-Bingoan Algebra Bingo
game for theiPad & iPhone
Adjunct Professor | Fresno Pacific UniversityContinuing Education/Degree Completion/MAED
Cloud Computing for EducatorsTwitter as a Professional Development Tool
The Flipped ClassroomCreate a Classroom Website
Math 121/136/137The Connected Educator
California’s FIRST community college in the largest educational system in the nation with
115+ colleges now.
Over 35,000 students and 1,400 instructors
Distance Education courses constitute 11% of enrollment
As we rolled out the adoption of Canvas as our new LMS we began a new online course for our
instructors to be certified to teach distance education courses.
We wanted a robust, engaging, online training course that would also model good course design and online pedagogy for our faculty with a course requirement of creating a course shell for the class they were going
to be teaching.
The participants would build that shell throughout the length of the course by way of the assignments
within the course.
Each assignment would have a learning piece as well as a creating piece for them to develop their own
course.
Enveloped within this entire process would be the need to create each piece of their course fully
accessible and ADA complaint.
GOALS FOR DEVELOPING THE CERTIFICATION COURSE:
• ONLINE - If you are going to teach online, you need to know what it is like to learn online!
• ROBUST - Six-week course with Discussions, Assignments, Video Training Series, Quizzes, and a cumulative final project of a course shell
• COHORTS - for peer support and encouragement• ACCESSIBILITY - Built-in from the beginning• ALIGNED - to the California Online Education Initiative’s
(OEI’s) Course Design Rubric• INTERACTIVE & ENGAGING - using multiple formats,
3rd party digital tools, wrapped up in lessons and discussions about best practices in online teaching
THE COURSE:Step 1: Know how to use Canvas
We begin the course by requiring that the participants achieve a Black Belt in our version of Kung Fu Canvas:
https://blog.canvaslms.com/blog/kung-fu-canvas
They can do this during the first week of the course (we added a 7th week for this purpose) or they can do it any time before the course begins as it is a self-enroll, self-paced course that we have badged.
THE COURSE:Step 2: F2F Meetings & Introductions
We found that it eases our participant’s stress level to have a face-to-face meeting with the instructor doing the first week of the course.
Throw them in the deep end!Video IntroductionsResearch shows that the more that the instructor is embedded into the course (in multiple ways), the higher the success rate of the students.
Modeling: Welcome your students to your course by way of video
Schedule F2F meeting time
Build community with student introductions using video posts (more modeling)
Confirming participation in Kung Fu Canvas
Modeling: Provide an area for student to student interaction
THE COURSE:
Some history and laws about online education
Providing some tools for student success
Instructions for incorporating Hoonuit into their courses
Providing info/access to California’s online student
success prep course
THE COURSE:
Modeling: Each week’s learning objectives listed first
Beginning with Equity in mind
Instruction on how to write good outcomes/objectives - measurable verbs
Critical Step 1: Outline your course & add objectives for
ONE module
THE COURSE:
Critical Step 2: Convert outline to Modules in
Canvas
Making you course policies clear to students. Sharing for peer review
Modeling: Each week’s learning objectives listed first
Before they build any course content - Accessibility! Begin with AT basics
Begin at the beginning: Course Syllabus
Critical Step 3: Determine course to be used for final project
THE COURSE:
Creating a course Home Page - accessibility within Canvas
Create a video to welcome their students to their course
Accessibility! Begin to make resources available
to them - list of student services
Modeling: Ask for student feedback at the midpoint of the course
THE COURSE:
Modeling: Each week’s learning objectives listed first
Modeling: Show them how to use Zoom as a video-conferencing tool in a video-conference
Discussion of copyright for instructors
A discussion on the use of technology in teaching
THE COURSE:
Creating course content - how do you ‘teach’ online? Using digital tools
Digital tools available in Canvas
Limiting what students see in Canvas - no ‘scavenger hunts’!
How to write good evaluation questions
Feedback on what they found to be new to them
An extremely important topic!
Modeling: Each week’s learning objectives listed first
Emphasizing ‘hands-on’ learning - not just read & answer
Discussion of copyright for instructors
Use rubrics! Non-biased, pre-loaded, easy grading!
Engaging lessons!
Sharing and Peer review
Additional reading and resources
Critical Step 4: One good, strong, clean learning unit
Build that unit in Modules in Course Shell
Engaging lessons!
Show that you can repeat everything that we’ve done!
Overall Critical Step: Creating a course shell for their course using all of the pieces of this course
Self-evaluation using the OEI Course Design Rubric
Final feedback on the course
THE COURSE:
THE EVALUATION PROCESS:
• Discussions and Assignments are scored based on rubrics throughout the timeline of the course
• The overall course shell rubric (the OEI Course Design Rubric) is shared at the beginning of the course and referred to throughout the course as well as being used as the final evaluative tool for being certified to teach online at FCC
• The trainer/facilitator for this course along with our Distance Education Director finalize these evaluations
THE NOTIFICATION PROCESS:• Badges are awarded and names are forwarded to Deans as they are responsible for teaching assignments
• Certificates are printed with copies made for Division records
QUANTITY:DE GROWTH AT FCC
QUALITY:DE PERFORMANCE GAP AT FCC
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DEC-101 Online Teaching Certification Course
Kevin Scritchfield | Instructional DesignerFresno City College
[email protected] | @kscritch
Creator of Alge-Bingoan Algebra Bingo
game for theiPad & iPhone
Adjunct Professor | Fresno Pacific UniversityContinuing Education/Degree Completion/MAED
Cloud Computing for EducatorsTwitter as a Professional Development Tool
The Flipped ClassroomCreate a Classroom Website
Math 121/136/137The Connected Educator
