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Are you prepared to specialize in an area of Online Teaching?

OLC Mastery Series Holly Rae (@hollyrae)

@OLCToday Institute for Learning


Online Learning Is Who We Are

And What We Do.


22 years in research and development of online learning through publications, conferences, research and faculty development…

CON·∙SOR·∙TI·∙UM (kn-‐sôrt-‐ēum, -‐shēum)

AN INDUSTRY LEADER

458 institutional members from 49 states and 14 countries dedicated to quality online education


WE’VE COME A LONG WAY


Originally funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Online Learning Consortium is now a non-‐profit, 501(c)(3) member-‐sustained organization.


This organization’s reach and impact have grown significantly since it was first conceived in 1992.


More than two decades later, we’re a self-‐sustaining member-‐driven organization with global reach and impact.


Learning Programs Designed by Online Educators for Online Educators.


Are you a specialist in Online Education?

Teaching / Content Areas Systems and Tools Methods of Delivery Administration Student Support Pedagogy


Online Teaching Mastery

Series 7 Choices


Online Teaching Development at the Mastery Level

Research

Develop

Implement

Reflect

Effective Practices

Case Based Practices


Be Recognized For Content Specific

Online Teaching Mastery.


Mastery Series Offerings in 2014 Blended Learning

Mobile Learning

Online Nursing

Online Science Labs

Spatial Thinking and Web Mapping

Leadership in Online Learning

Social Media for Online Education

NEW

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Mastery Series Components

Required Experience • One year Blended/Online Teaching Experience or

• New to Online: The Essentials – 1 week workshop

Reflection and Application Periods • Time in between workshops

• Apply concepts and skills from workshop

Three 7 Day Workshops • Explore relevant research and strategies

• Apply concepts to develop an effective teaching & learning environment


Estimated Mastery Series Time Commitments

Total Required Hours Synchronous Hours

Workshop 1 1 Week 6-‐7 1

(recorded)

Reflection & Application Period 3 Weeks 2-‐4


(recorded)

Reflection & Application Period 3 Weeks 2-‐4


(recorded)

Totals 22-‐29 hours over 9-‐12 weeks

*typical synchronous work = 3 hours

*Most mastery series have a 1-‐hour sync session per workshop;


Blended Learning Mastery Series

•  Analyze research related to blended learning designs, student learning and satisfaction, and assessment

•  Develop a blended course design plan with outcomes and objectives

•  Analyze assessment strategies for their suitability for face-‐to-‐face or online use

•  Develop an assessment plan •  Analyze teaching methods and learning activities for use in

either face-‐to-‐face or online settings •  Develop a teaching unit for your blended course that

includes face-‐to-‐face and online components


Mobile Learning Mastery Series

•  Analyze mobile learning research •  Develop a mobile learning design plan •  Analyze teaching methods and learning activities

for use in your mobile learning environment •  Develop a teaching unit that includes mobile

learning options •  Describe assessment considerations and strategies •  Develop an assessment plan for your mobile

learning activities


Online Nursing Mastery Series •  Synthesize and discuss the nursing literature regarding online learning,

online learning theories and best practices, and the benefits of using educational technology in online nursing classrooms.

•  Create a multimedia instructional component for your current or future online course.

•  Synthesize and explain social learning theory, the nursing literature regarding social presence and the influence of educational technology on social presence, satisfaction, and learning.

•  Create a course plan for that incorporates a social-‐media enhanced virtual discussion and collaboration space.

•  Synthesize theory, knowledge and skills relative to educational technology and modify course lesson plans accordingly.

•  Create and present a final project that incorporates multimedia and social learning components.


Online Science Labs Mastery Series •  Describe and discuss the 5E instructional model of science teaching. •  Synthesize and discuss the science education literature regarding teaching science labs

online, including online learning theories and best practices, and the benefits of using educational technology to reach virtual students.

•  Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of virtual versus hands-‐on "wet-‐labs" for teaching and learning in distance education.

•  Summarize various approaches used by different scientific disciplines to create a rigorous online laboratory course component.

•  Create a course plan that incorporates student-‐student, student-‐content, and student-‐faculty interactions to enhance the online laboratory learning space.

•  Create a formative and summative assessment plan for an online science laboratory. •  Synthesize theory, knowledge, and skills relative to teaching a science laboratory online. •  Create and present a capstone project that culminates in the creation of a highly interactive

online science lab exercise that incorporates student-‐student, student-‐content, and student-‐faculty learning.


Spatial Thinking and Web Mapping Mastery Series

•  Analyze research related to spatial thinking and apply it to the educational environment. •  Explore how to embed key spatial thinking themes into your instruction, including issues

of scale, data quality, working with spatial data and maps, and developing the spatial thinking ‘habit of mind.’

•  Apply foundations learned in the first workshop to thinking about real world issues at a number of scales and across a number of themes.

•  Create, symbolize, save, and share web maps to understand how to use geotechnologies to enhance teaching and learning through content, skills, and perspectives.

•  Learn how to incorporate real time and field data into your instruction using web mapping.

•  Use spatial and tabular data, tools in web mapping platforms, and the spatial perspective to better understand real world issues in a deeper way and to solve problems.

•  Create your own lesson using geotechnologies and create a plan for implementing it in the classroom.


Social Media for Online Education Mastery Series

•  Develop online persona and social media presence •  Evaluate, analyze, and synthesize relevant research and legal issues

related to social media in education in order to develop effective methods for the online classroom

•  Explore and evaluate effectiveness of social media tools and learning activities for use in online education

•  Develop learning activities and assessment strategies for the online classroom incorporating social media

•  Identify and explain relevant engagement strategies as they relate to course and program delivery

•  Produce artifacts evidencing ability to support students in social media


Leadership in Online Learning Mastery Series*

•  Analyze models for successful characteristics applicable to all institutions

•  Develop an institutional plan formulated on models suited to your instruction

•  Describe strategic questions surrounding educational policy as they relate to your institution

•  Evaluate tools and resources to track policy changes •  Describe best practices in online budgets and investments •  Develop a realistic plan for financial success in online and blended

programming

*Prerequisite: Administrative experience in higher education


OLC Mastery Series 2014 Dates

Enrollment Fee $599 No member discounts or college pass coupons

Blended Learning September 26 -‐ November 28, 2014 December 5, 2014 -‐ February 13, 2015

Mobile Learning September 12 -‐ November 14, 2014

Spatial Thinking and Web Mapping

September 12 -‐ November 14, 2014

Online Science Labs September 26 -‐ November 28, 2014 November 7, 2014 -‐ January 16, 2015

Social Media October 17 -‐ December 12, 2014

Leadership in Online Education November 7, 2014 -‐ January 16, 2015


Sneak Peak

Mastery Series in Development for 2015

Improving and Evaluating Quality in Online Learning

Instructional Design


QUESTIONS?


Help Us Celebrate 20 Years of Online Learning! Where were YOU 20 years ago?

Join the celebration at the 20th Annual Online Learning Consortium

International Conference, October 29-‐31, 2014 at the Walt Disney

World Swan and Dolphin Resort.

http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/conference/2014/ALN/welcome


THANK YOU

hollyrae.bemisschurtz@onlinelearning-‐c.org @hollyrae & @OLCToday

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