The Advanced Online Teaching Certificate is designed to help faculty integrate more authentic and experiential learning into their courses while also adapting course materials and instructional strategies in response to student needs.
Below you will learn more about how to enroll in these activities and what they involve.
Certificate Requirements
The Advanced Online Teaching Certificate requires the completion of the following:
- Facilitating Active and Authentic Learning in Online Courses course
- Responsive and Adaptive Teaching to Meet the Needs of All Learners course
- Five credits of elective activities
Read below to learn more about each of the requirements.
The Facilitating Active and Authentic Learning in Online Courses Course
This courses focuses on helping faculty to facilitate courses that engage students in active and authentic learning experiences. The key to making authentic learning work is coming to terms with the risk and uncertainty it produces. To make it work, you need to simultaneously cede control, reduce structure, de-risk your assignments, and find forgiveness, for yourself and for your students. As you learn to do this, you will also grow more comfortable moving away from traditional assignments and assessments.
The time commitment for this 2-week asynchronous course is approximately 5-6 hours per week. The course will be facilitated by eCampus Online Faculty Associates. Participants may be eligible for a $250 stipend upon completion.
*Pre-requisite: Completion of the Intermediate Online Teaching Certificate.
The Responsive and Adaptive Teaching to Meet the Needs of All Learners Course
This course is meant to help faculty better understand what responsive and adaptive teaching is. Faculty explore the challenges of balancing the needs of the many and the one, introducing students to diverse perspectives while also honoring individual backgrounds, and balancing flexibility with accountability and rigor. This course also looks at ways faculty can employ technology to identify when students are struggling and how to adapt instruction when needed in order to help all learners succeed. This course builds on various concepts in the literature, including, culturally responsive teaching, adaptive teaching, personalized learning, and universal design for learning.
The time commitment for this 2-week asynchronous course is approximately 5-6 hours per week. The course will be facilitated by eCampus Online Faculty Associates. Participants may be eligible for a $250 stipend upon completion.
*Pre-requisite: Completion of the Intermediate Online Teaching Certificate.
Five credits of elective activities
The final requirement for this certificate is to complete five credits of elective activities. Elective activities include the following:
Webinars (1-credit) – These are one-hour live sessions in Zoom facilitated by a variety of faculty associates and experts in specific areas from across campus. Webinars are recorded and participants who attended the session have access to the recording, slidedeck, and additional resources after the sessions via a Canvas site that holds the webinar.
Seminars (2-credits) – These are week-long asynchronous mini-courses that provide participants an opportunity to learn how to improve a specific aspect of their online course and teaching. Seminars challenge participants to apply what they learn to improve one of their online courses. Lessons, resources and activities are accessed through the seminar’s Canvas site.
Communities of Practices (3-credits) – Communities of practice (CoP) allow a small group of faculty to meet every-other week throughout a semester (for about 8 meetings) to discuss a specific area of online teaching. Facilitators and guest speakers provide insightful materials to help center the discussions while faculty share their insights and experiences with each other.
Enrolling, Tracking, and Completing Certificates
To enroll in this certificate, go to the eCampus group page in CampusGroups (be sure to log in) and locate the Join Sub-Groups area at the bottom-right corner of the page. Click the relevant checkbox for this certificate to enroll in it. You can then view the requirements for the certificate (as described above) by clicking on Home, then My Activity, then My Checklists.Â
You can enroll in currently scheduled offerings for this certificate, as described above, on our eCampus Faculty Development Event page in CampusGroups. Go to the Event Page, locate the required offerings, and click register. Make sure you are logged in to CampusGroups to see all events.
If a required course for the certificate is not listed, that means it has already been offered this semester. You can contact onlinefacultydevelopment@boisestate.edu to learn when the next offering will be. In the meantime, you are encouraged to participate in elective activities to begin working towards the certificate.
After you complete a course or elective activities for a certificate, your progress will be reflected in CampusGroups. You can view your progress by clicking on the Home button in CampusGroups, and then in the main menu selecting My Activity, then My Checklists.
Updates to the progress can take up to one week to be reflected after completing an activity. If you have a question about your progress, please reach out to onlinefacultydevelopment@boisestate.edu.
Once you complete the final activity for a certificate, you will be notified by the eCampus Faculty Development team. You will then receive an email with a certificate of completion as an attachment. Your achievement of the certificate will then be announced in an upcoming eCampus Update Newsletter. Prior to announcing it in the newsletter, you will be offered the opportunity to opt-out of the announcement.
In addition to your achievement being recognized with a certificate and the announcement in the eCampus Update newsletter, your completion of courses and activities will also be reported to Faculty 180, where appropriate, a tool at Boise State for faculty to collect, organize, and display their research, teaching and service data for the purposes of annual reviews, promotion and tenure.
Once you complete the Advanced Online Teaching Certificate, you are encouraged to explore other certificates and micro-credentials that eCampus Faculty Development offers.
Learn more about other eCampus certificates and mico-credentials.