STELAR Online Teaching Certificate Program
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The STELAR Online Teaching Certificate Program is a series of three, multi-week online courses that focus on the theory and practice of designing, developing, and facilitating exceptional online courses. Participants may choose to take any of the courses individually; by completing the series, participants will earn a certificate.
All courses are 100% asynchronous; however, synchronous office hours will be offered.
Questions? Please email stelar@stthomas.edu with questions about the program or courses.
Setting the Foundation: Best Practices in Online Teaching
Learners will explore best practices in online teaching through the lens of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model (Garrison, Anderson, and Archer, 2000), specifically investigating the ways in which social, cognitive, and teaching presence intersect to create exceptional educational experiences in the online environment.
2021 Sessions:
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Designing Your Online Course: Creating Exceptional Educational Experiences
Learners will analyze the following course components with an eye toward alignment: learning outcomes, instructional materials, activities, and assessments. Specifically, they will practice writing measurable learning outcomes, find and/or create digital instructional materials, use technology to create engaging learning activities, and design assessments that measure higher-order cognitive skills.
2021 Sessions:
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Facilitating Your Online Course: Sustaining Student Engagement and Inquiry
Learners will discover and practice new ways of engaging students through technology. We will discuss ways to develop one’s online teaching personality, orienting students to the course, the use of synchronous and asynchronous communication, and managing the workload of teaching online.
2021 Sessions:
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Questions? Please email stelar@stthomas.edu with questions about the program or courses.