Teaching Online for Graduate Students

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Application Deadline for Spring 2024 has passed. Check back for Spring 2025.

Description

Are you a graduate student who is new to online learning or interested in teaching an online course? Would you like to boost your teaching credentials and learn new instructional skills? This four-week, fully online asynchronous course will introduce you to online teaching and develop your knowledge and ability to implement and teach online courses at the University of South Carolina and throughout your career as an educator. Course topics will include the following:

Recognizing online learning best practices
Identifying on-campus learner and faculty support resources
Revising a syllabus for an online course
Comparing online learning models and theories
Creating measurable learning outcomes/objectives
Discussing the course design and development process
Collaborating and networking with peers

The goal of this course is to support and develop a community of graduate students prepared to develop and teach high-quality, asynchronous online courses. You may apply for this course if you:

Are an experienced graduate student at the University of South Carolina, and
Have at least one semester of face-to-face or online teaching experience as the instructor of record or primary teacher.

Priority will be given to graduate students who teach as instructor of record or primary teacher who are scheduled to teach online for USC in an upcoming semester. This course is offered fully online and asynchronous (does not have any scheduled meeting times).

Participants who successfully complete the course will receive a certificate of completion. There are no fees associated with this course.

Admission to this course is competitive and spaces are limited, so apply early. Applicants will be expected to complete 100 percent of the course activities on the appointed schedule in order to receive the certificate of completion.

You must submit both the Online Application and the Signature Page to be considered.

Details

Teaching Online for Graduate Students will run for four weeks from Wednesday, January 31, 2024 – Tuesday, February 27, 2024. Course activities must be completed satisfactorily on due dates during the four weeks of the course. This course is offered fully online and asynchronous (does not have any scheduled meeting times).

Application

Application Deadline for Spring 2024 has passed. Check back for Spring 2025

Spring 2024 applicants will be notified by January 27, 2023.

For questions, please contact Kimberly Pavlik at kpavlik@mailbox.sc.edu.

About the Facilitator

Casey Carroll is an instructional designer with the Center for Teaching Excellence at USC. Carroll works with all who teach to support the creation of innovative and accessible courses and the continued development of teaching skills. He also works with instructors teaching online to help with course design and learning technologies.

Prior to joining CTE, Carroll designed curriculum for professional training and leadership development. He has also taught First-Year English and English as a Second Language at the University of South Carolina. Carroll holds a master’s degree in linguistics from USC and a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and psychology from Pacific Lutheran University.

I am completely brand new to online teaching and felt all the materials were extremely useful and I gained a depth of knowledge.

The information provided was very valuable as it helped define many of the quality measures and requirements of online coursework and course design at USC.

We were learning to teach online, so we actually did the activities in an online learning format! I learned so much more by doing than just sitting in a classroom with someone talking at me.

I like that the course materials are selected to focus on the essential elements of online-course designs. I also appreciate that the design and conduct of TOGS respects the grad students as professional instructors.

It was great to have a hands on experience on designing an online course with proper feedback received from such a great instructor!

The variety of resources provided for both creating and facilitating student engagement in an online course were incredibly helpful. I appreciated being able to use a variety of online tools in the course itself as part of the assignments.

I found the module about active learning to be very enlightening. The Cone of Learning diagram made me realized how important it is to get students actively involved in an online course and the support for how to implement collaborative learning provided me with tools for creating active learning exercises.

One thing that I found appealing about this course is that it provided exposure to several foundational concepts of education, pedagogy, and course design (e.g. Bloom's taxonomy, learning outcomes, active learning). I'm not an education major, but these were useful concepts to study and apply in my teaching.

This course far exceeded my expectations. After 20 years of teaching, I have revisited my entire perspective of teaching, objectives, interactions, assessment, feedback, methods, etc. So many useful tools, techniques, advice, examples, resources, etc.

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