Online Training Certification (OTC)
Winter '24, Spring '24 and Summer '24 Sections are open for registration.
The PCC Online Teaching Certification (OTC) is an eight-week fully online course that explores online learning theory, approaches to online course design, and strategies for supporting student success through Course Design, Interaction, Assessment and Accessibility. This course is for PCC faculty who are completing the college’s DE training requirement.
Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Develop a comprehensive course plan for a fully online or hybrid course
- Use the core features of the Canvas learning management system to design an online or hybrid course
- Develop an introductory orientation module
- Develop a learning unit with clear objectives aligned to the course outcomes
- Design accessible course content
- Integrate Open Educational Resources or other material curated from the internet to support student learning
- Design formative and summative assessments to support and measure student learning
- Use a variety of communication tools, both within and external to Canvas, to support student success
- Explain PCC policies and distance learning regulations
- Develop an understanding of the CVC-OEI rubric
Fulfills
This course fulfills PCC’s distance education training requirement. This course can be used for salary advancement under: 12.6.3 Equivalent Credit, section c in the PCC Faculty Contract. or for 80 hours of FLEX credit but not both. This course is not eligible for Acceptable Study credit units.
Format and Duration:
Fully Online, Asynchronous , 8-weeks
Time Commitment:
Approximately 10 hours per week, for a total of 80 hours. Please be aware if you have minimal experience teaching online and using Canvas, your time commitment may exceed 10 hours.
Level of Difficulty:
Intermediate. You need to have a basic understanding of Canvas before taking this course. Do you understand the difference between a Module, Page, Announcement, Quiz, and Assignment in Canvas? If this is your first time designing an online course or you have only used Canvas for displaying grades or posting announcements, we strongly suggest you begin with @One’s free Introduction to Teaching with Canvas course Links to an external site. (either the facilitated or self-paced course) prior to taking this eight-week course.
IMPORTANT: This OTC course requires faculty to create and submit original course materials in order to optimize online teaching and learning skills. Shared course shells or course shells created by other authors are not acceptable for the purpose of this Online Teaching Certification.