5. Goals
• Show how the ETOM Online Teaching and
Advanced Online Teaching Certification
courses can help:
– Improve your marketability as an online teacher.
– Improve the quality of online teachers you hire.
– Give faculty the advanced skills they need to
develop and teach quality online courses.
7. Online Teaching Certification (OTC)
• Six week online course offered by ETOM.
• Focused on quality standards identified in
MCCVLC Online Course Development
Guidelines/Rubric
• Orientation to online teaching and learning.
• Designing an online course.
• Constructing an online course.
• Managing and supporting an online course.
9. Barriers to Online Faculty Quality
A.
B.
C.
D.
Technical Skills
Teaching Experience
Instructional Design/Curriculum
Ability to Organize and Manage
10. ETOM OTC Competencies
• articulate outcomes (competencies) that provide
a foundation for design and focus for the learner;
• set up instructional consistency, matching
outcomes, content, practice/feedback, and
assessments;
• plan effective management of course materials,
assignments, and interactions;
• develop effective online organization of course,
including clear directions and policies for
students;
• effectively use a LMS to develop their course.
12. ETOM Advanced OTC
• Six week online course offered by ETOM.
• Emphasizes how the appropriate use of
instructional technologies can enhance online
learning and improve course quality
• Stresses how the use and deployment of these
instructional technologies does not need to be
expensive or difficult to master.
13. ETOM Advanced OTC Module 1
• Incorporating Audio and Video
– Sound Instructional Design
– Capturing Audio and Video
– Using Existing Audio and Video
14. ETOM Advanced OTC Module 2
• Creating Multimedia Content
– Creating and Using Images
– Free and Open Source Tools
– Combining Content Effectively
15. ETOM Advanced OTC Module 3
• Integrating Social Applications
– Blogs and Wikis
– Facebook
– Twitter and other Web Apps
16. ETOM Advanced OTC Module 4
• Live Tools
– Chat and IM
– Whiteboards
– Webcasts
17. ETOM Advanced OTC Module 5
• Emerging Technologies
– Mobile Learning
– Virtual Worlds and Gaming
– Open Learning
18. ETOM Advanced OTC Module 6
• Pulling it All Together!
– Peer Review
– Final Presentation
– Course Evaluation
19. GRCC HLC Change Visit
• Continuous Quality Improvement
– In order to maintain such quality, it should
consider a recertification process for its online
courses. Rapidly emerging technologies and tools
– Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and online tutoring
did not exist seven years ago – also speak on
behalf of regular reviews of the techniques and
technologies used in online courses.