Online Teaching Faculty Training
Asynchronous, Fully Online in Blackboard
Instructors: Tom Cantu, Anna Donohoe
Begins: Feb. 13, 2024Ends: April 9, 2024Credit Hours: 60
Delivery Mode: Online in Blackboard
- Audience: MC professors who plan to create an online or blended coursePrerequisites: Completion of Digital Fundamentals for Teaching and Learning (formerly SRT training) or Online Teaching Part 1.
- Approval: Necessary from department chair or dean to build and teach a specific course.
Description:
The Online Teaching training prepares Montgomery College professors to teach asynchronous (DL Web) online and blended courses.
The training occurs in Blackboard as a seven-week asynchronous online course that will guide you through planning, building, and preparing to teach your own online or blended course.
The course begins on Feb. 13 and ends on April 9, 2024.
Although the course is conducted asynchronously, the course is not self-paced. As in any DL Web course, there are weekly deadlines. Participants are expected to log in to the course regularly to view announcements, respond to course mail, complete weekly assignments, review feedback to update their work, and actively contribute to the weekly discussions.
Participants will design the online or blended course they are preparing to teach and develop a prototype consisting of a syllabus, orientation, and one module that is ready to teach. The prototype module will be revised until it can serve as a model to follow and a set of page templates for building the rest of your course.
To become eligible to teach online for Montgomery College, your course prototype must fulfill the competency demonstration criteria which include the 22 Essential Quality Matters Standards, 7th Ed.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Design your online or blended course.
- Create online activities and assignments.
- Include appropriate levels of interaction to engage students.
- Develop web-centric habits as evidenced by logging in to the course regularly to complete assignments, respond to email, and actively contribute to the weekly discussions.
- Build a prototype of an online or blended course that fulfills the competency demonstration criteria including the 22 Essential Quality Matters Standards, 7th Ed.
Notes:
Teaching remotely using Zoom or Collaborate is live or synchronous teaching. The Online Teaching training will guide you through creating an asynchronous online course. Because live teaching is absent in a fully online course and reduced by half or more in a blended course, creating an asynchronous online or blended course requires a redesign to plan content delivery, learning activities, and student engagement in the absence of live lecturing. Faculty with experience teaching asynchronous online courses using Blackboard may be eligible for an accelerated version of the training. If you have questions, please contact Tom Cantu at 240-567-6006 or tom.cantu@montgomerycollege.edu.
