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Center for Excellence In Teaching and Learning

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Online & Hybrid Certification

SVSU is committed to high-quality learning experiences offered in a variety of delivery formats. Faculty members are provided with professional development and ongoing support to design and teach online and hybrid courses. SVSU is a subscribing member of the Online Learning Consortium, which provides national standards and guidelines for designing high-quality online and hybrid learning experiences.

The OLC uses the OSCQR rubric for course assessment.  Please see our Canvas site, Teaching Resources, for a copy of the rubric.

Professional Development Courses for Online & Hybrid Teaching 

Faculty who will be teaching online or hybrid courses are required to complete one of our two certification courses.

If you think you (or your faculty member if you are a chair) are already qualified OR if you or your faculty member are only teaching the in-person pieces of a hybrid course or only the in-person field/clinical experience, please fill out our Online/Hybrid Course Teaching Certification Waiver Form.  Please see our Canvas site for more information about waivers.

We also offer a Refresher version of the Designer's Course for faculty who have been certified previously.  See below for more information.

Click on the text below to learn about our two training courses.

This certification course, also known as the Designer’s Course, covers the pedagogy of online and hybrid course design and teaching.

Who should take this course?

Full-time and adjunct faculty who will be:

  1. Designing and teaching an online/hybrid course.
  2. Teaching an online/hybrid course with already designed materials but who will be responsible for some or all of the following activities

    o revision/creation of the syllabus.

    o choosing and creating teaching materials and learning activities.

    o facilitating classroom face-to-face or online direct instruction.

Schedule

This course is a primarily asynchronous self-paced course with at least 2 consultations with CETL staff to complete course requirements. Work may be completed at your own pace; however, certification will not be issued until all course requirements have been met to a satisfactory level.  The course typically takes 10-15 hours to complete (assuming familiarity with Canvas and previous teaching experience), and much, if not all, of the work, can be used in upcoming courses. 

Enrollment

Please contact CETL@svsu.edu to discuss placement in the appropriate training course.  If you know which course you need to enroll in, you can use our Faculty Online/Hybrid Training Sign Up form.

 

 

 

This course provides the same information and the option to engage in the same discussions and activities as the Designer Course.  It is available to faculty who have previous Online/Hybrid certification.  Faculty in the course can decide how and when they want to interact with it.  As with the Designer's Course, it is asynchronous.

While no activities are required, any faculty member who completes a module by reviewing all the material and completing all the activities will receive a digital badge.  Earn all the module badges to receive a course completion badge!  For anyone who completes the course, we will also note it on the official list of trained faculty.

Enrollment

You can use our Faculty Online/Hybrid Training Sign Up form to request access to the Refresher Course.

This certification course, also known as the Facilitator’s Course, covers best practices in communicating with and providing feedback to students in an online format.

This course might be suitable for you if you are

  1. teaching an online Canvas course that has been fully developed by the department. "Developed" means a complete Canvas course (policies, schedule, modules, assignments, rubrics, lectures, content) that the department created and which you will use without any creative control of your own.
  2. co-teaching a course (with a full-time lead instructor who is responsible for the overall course design)
  3. overseeing onsite clinical or field placements.

Schedule

This course is a primarily asynchronous self-paced course with at least 1 consultation with CETL staff to complete course requirements. Work may be completed at your own pace; however, certification will not be issued until all course requirements have been met with 85% proficiency.  The course typically takes 8 hours to complete (assuming familiarity with Canvas). 

Enrollment

Please contact CETL@svsu.edu to discuss placement in the appropriate training course.  If you know which course you need to enroll in, you can use our Faculty Online/Hybrid Training Sign Up form.