An overview of the history and redesign of @One's Online Teaching Certification Program.

1. Online Certification Program
March 16, 2010

2. Background
Certification program originally positioned as a
resource for colleges/districts with an interest in
certification but lacked the resources to
implement one.
@One’s goal was to leverage existing courses
and extend them as a robust pool of offerings
from which institutions could individually design
their own certification programs.

3. Reconceptualizing the @One
Certification Process
@One acts as certification “facilitator” for colleges/districts.
strand 1
• College contacts @One to leverage existing courses
• College determines own certification curriculum
• @One monitors and communicates candidate progress
• Final certification provided by the college
strand 2
@One offers a set certification curriculum and new
standard, state-level certification.

4. Goal #1:
Increase Demand
1. Expand target audience
• From: Administrators with an emphasis on customizable
curriculum path
• To: Individual faculty and administrators, now providing a
distinct and pre-determined certification program
• Considerations: current economic context, increase in
competition in the part-time faculty job market. Part-
timers (or new grads) are interested in securing cost-
effective way to set themselves apart from others.
2. Capture interest through automated web-form submission
• 9 individual interest requests submitted in first 30 days

5. Goal #1:
Increase Demand
1. Expand target audience
• From: Administrators with an emphasis on customizable
curriculum path
• To: Individual faculty and administrators, now providing a
distinct and pre-determined certification program
• Considerations: current economic context, increase in
competition in the part-time faculty job market. Part-
timers (or new grads) are interested in securing cost-
effective way to set themselves apart from others.
2. Capture interest through automated web-form submission
• 9 individual interest requests submitted in first 30 days

6. Goal #2:
Define Certification Outcomes
• Leverage North American Council for Online Learning
(NACOL) 13 core online teaching & instructional design
competencies
• Collaborative meeting in January to align competencies
with certification courses

7. Goal #3: Identify Assessment
Mechanism/Process for Final Certification
1. Leverage ePortfolios to collect digital artefacts throughout
coursework
• Researched existing OL certification programs to
understand current assessment trends (CSU East Bay, Sloan-C,
Univ Wisconsin, Cerro Coso CC)
2. Candidate will demonstrate proficiencies through ePortfolio
review with a “Mentor Facilitator” in their final session
3. The review will culminate in a CCC Confer presentation,
given by the candidate

8. Goal #4:
Refresh/Design Additional Courses
• Refresh Introduction to Online Teaching course
• integrate opportunities for content creation, new methods
of student interaction and asssessment, applications of
copyright “fair use”
• new online version will be offered Summer ’10
• Design online assessment course
• design curriculum
• in process

9. The @One Online Teaching
Certification Program
1
Complete the five core courses. 2
Intro to Online Teaching Complete the online
and Learning teaching practicuum.
Designing an Accessible
Online Course
Demonstrate
Building Online online teaching
Community with Social proficiencies to
Media your mentor
facilitator in a
Course Management
presentation of
Training
your ePortfolio.
Designing Effective
Online Assessments

10. @One Certification Program
Timeline
Spring 2010 Summer 2010 Fall 2010
Plan & Review Communicate Launch new
certification
program

11. Certification Program - Questions
1. Are there legal concerns associated with the use of the term “certification”
at a statewide level?
2. Implications to the course curriculum and certification program for
accommodating K-12 audience?
3. How should additional course offerings be positioned in the certification
program?
4. Which ePortfolio tool should we use?
• Currently looking at Mahara (Moodle plug-in)
5. What topics/issues are essential for the Assessment course?
6. Other ideas for communicating the certification program?
7. Should we implement a “certification program enrollment fee” that is
distinct from the individual course registration fees?