Welcome to the Certification Course in Online Teaching and Learning
To sign up for the certification course, please download and complete the registration form and send it via email to Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, at mahfood@kenrick.edu. The cost for the course is $500, and participants will have up to six months to complete all 8 modules for certification.
The modules for this course are made freely available to everyone for the purpose of demonstrating the essential elements involved in creating an online teaching and learning environment.
Module 1:
Developing a Basic Sense of the Terminology
Module 2: Transactive vs.
Transmissive Pedagogies (activity-based learning)
Module 3: Andragogy, an
Adult Learning Theory
Module 4: Developing the
Distributed Learning Platform
Module 5: Establishing a
Social Presence
Module 6: Online Course
Management (Resources and Students)
Module 7: Direct and
Indirect Measurement Tools
Module 8: ePortfolio
Development
Those of you taking this course for credit
will also have access to the online course template through
Fishersnet Blackboard. Successful completion of the certificate in
online teaching and learning
requires only the following:
1)
creating a syllabus
designed for online teaching of your chosen content area
2)
engaging in the course
activities (assignments and Blackboard participation)
3)
understanding the general
maintenance of the course management system you will use
The standards that will govern this course come from the general standards for accreditation of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) which may be found online at http://www.ats.edu/Accrediting/documents/standards/DegreeStandards.pdf and http://www.ats.edu/Accrediting/Pages/HandbookofAccreditation.aspx The ATS general standards are reviewed within the course as they apply. Since this is a technology for good pedagogy course the International Society for Technology in Education: National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers 2008, which may be found online at will also apply. While the ISTE standards were developed for primary and secondary education, they also serve as guidelines for graduate-level educational technology departments and will be useful to us in graduate level theological education as we study technology based teaching and learning.