Certification for Instructor

Introduction

Competencies Leading to Certification

1. General Course Design Principles
1. Completes needs assessment for course
2. Must demonstrate knowledge of Bloom's Taxonomy
   1. to state learning objectives
   2. to identify a teaching/learning strategy
   3. to identify an assessment strategy
2. Best Practice in Vista (WebCT)
   1. View demo course
   2. Develop a welcome page
   3. Start Here module
      1. Develop an overview page
      2. Edit course structure doucment if needed
      3. Develop a course schedule based on template
      4. Edit the communication rules document if needed
      5. Edit technology requirements document if needed
      6. Edit student introductions document if needed
      7. Develop questions for the survey about you student survey if needed
      8. Develop questions for the quiz on start here module if needed
      9. Adopt the use of module evaluation for some or all of the learning modules
      10. Develop other pages for this module per need for course
   4. Uses learning modules to present course content
   5. Uses overview pages in each learning module
   6. Follows guidelines for assignments
   7. Uses folders in File manager
   8. Uploads files to file manager
   9. Uses a file naming convention for files and tools in Vista
3. Online Pedagogy
   1. Identify an instructional strategy
   2. Identify student discussion strategies
   3. Adopt and demonstrate use of guiding the learning process
   4. Identify strategies for formative feedback in your course
   5. Identify assessment strategies for your course
4. Quality Assurance
   1. Uses Quality Assurance Checklist
   2. Uses Project Managment Tracking Worksheet
   3. Keeps Faculty Journal