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Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program: Course Schedule and Descriptions

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Upcoming Courses 

PP 100: Certificate Foundation Course

Presenter

Emily Reynolds, BizEnglish.com, Boulder, Colorado, USA

When?

8 April-19 May 2013

Registration

Space is limited to the first 18 participants, with no more than 6 participants at the special rate.

Deadline: 7 January

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Who Should Attend?

ESOL professionals who want acquire pedagogical and technical skills needed to teach courses online

More About This Course

This course promotes awareness of online teaching skills, techniques, and curriculum design. It introduces participants to the major design parameters that make online courses different. It also reflects the communicative nature of the online environment and is based on asynchronous discussion and collaboration.
The instructor will model the strategies that participants can use in their own online courses or blended courses. Participants will also experiment with software.

What Are the Course Requirements?

 PP 100 is organized on a weekly, modular basis. Participants are required to 
  • log on to the course a minimum number of times each week
  • complete online readings and turn in weekly assignments
  • create a basic web page

How Will This Course Be Graded?

 PP 100 is graded on a Pass/No Pass basis. The instructor bases final grades on class participation, weekly assignments, class discussions, and the final project. Participants must pass this course before taking other courses in the program.

What Will I Learn?

  • An overview of online learning and teaching
  • The online student's roles and responsibilities in the virtual classroom
  • The facilitator's role in the virtual classroom and characteristics of a successful online instructor
  • Strategies to promote communication and collaboration in the virtual classroom
  • Curriculum conversion for the online environment
  • Introduction to software applications for editing in Word, recording voice, creating web pages, and creating online exercises

What Are the Goals for This Course?

  • Explore the virtual classroom from the perspective of a student
  • Explore the issues surrounding online teaching in depth
  • See the skills and technologies within a Course Management System in action that teachers use in online course
  • Experience and critique model online courses
  • Provide an international forum for networking and for sharing ideas and experiences

About the Instructor

Emily Reynolds is an ESOL consultant and Academic Director at BizEnglish.com located in Boulder, Colorado, USA where she designs and delivers online courses in Business English for international business people. The former Director of Business English Programs at the Economics Institute, University of Colorado, she has taught, designed curriculum and courses, directed programs and written nine ESL textbooks over the last 30 years. Her latest book English for Global Business (University of Michigan Press) recently won TESOL’s Materials Development Award. Emily founded BizEnglish in 1997, and has been working online and face-to-face to deliver language and teacher training courses since then.