Online Teaching Certificate Program at Merritt College in Oakland, CA

1. Learn to Teach Online From Pedagogy to Practice By Alexis Alexander

2. Merritt College in Oakland Ca.

3. All of these courses are at http://eperalta.org/merritt These are the 6 classes that comprise the certificate Moodle Self Help is a course anyone can access with lots of how to videos

4. Course #1 EDT 01 This course focuses on Online Teaching Pedagogy

5. The first week is about Universal design, learning styles and discovering your own teaching style

6. Accessibility is very important element of course design This week is about building your course outline

7. What kind of a facilitator are you and how can you transfer your teaching style and skills to an online environment?

8. Are you up to date on finding resources online? What about Multimedia?

9. Your students need effective assessment, and so do you!

10. In this first course you have an opportunity to begin to dabble in building an online shell

11. Course #2 EDT 2 This course focuses on how to use a CMS, in this case we are using Moodle

12. The first week you get your Moodle shell

13. The second week is all about Content, content, content. You will be introduced to all the basic tools for adding content in Moodle

14. Moodle has some great tools for interaction for students This week we will be adding live chat, forums and assignments

15. This week is about eBooks and Google Docs

17. At the end of this course, you will have a well developed Moodle Shell

18. Course #3 EDT 3 This course focuses on blending learning

20. One of the valuable opportunities that faculty who take these classes have is a chance to talk online with other instructors who are also exploring new ideas and trying out new technologies

21. Student motivation is a big topic for online instructors

22. There are many resources online for creating or getting content. In may ways you can make a much richer experience for students because of the variety of modalities for content delivery

23. Assessment changes in the online setting. You need to assess students, but also provide a way for students to give you feedback on the effectiveness of your course

24. At the end of this course, you should have a well developed hybrid course model

25. Course #4 EDT 4

29. By this point in theses courses, you should already have a grasp of how to use these online tools, so in this course you have a chance to make some effective course materials

30. This is assessment as in the instructional design aspect of online course building

32. Course #5 EDT 5

39. Course #6 EDT 6

41. Multimedia

46. Accessibility is a constant issue and theme in all of these courses

47. Want to Learn More? Check out http://eperalta.org/emerritt Or email me at aalexander@peralta.edu