Queens College Effective Online Teaching Brightspace course is a self-paced course designed to provide you with strategies and best practices for online teaching and learning. You will gain practical skills in designing courses, determining measurable learning objectives, and creating engaging content as well as opportunities to optimize the online student experience for maximum impact. And you will be able to apply those skills immediately, using a course of your own!
Effective Online Teaching is a self-paced, non-facilitated asynchronous course.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a foundational understanding of online teaching by articulating its distinct advantages and challenges.
- Apply the skills necessary to design effective online courses with clear, measurable learning objectives and engaging content.
- Demonstrate competence in facilitating interactive online learning experiences, fostering student engagement and effective communication.
- Create formative assessments that actively support student learning and design summative assessments that accurately measure achievement while addressing academic integrity online.
- Distinguish between active and passive learning and evaluate opportunities to optimize the online student experience.
- Analyze and apply insights into diversity, equity, and inclusion to foster an inclusive atmosphere in online courses while ensuring student accessibility.
To self-enroll:
- Go to Brightspace.cuny.edu and click Discover.
- Enter “Queens College Effective Online Teaching” in the search field and click Search.
- Click on “Queens College Effective Online Teaching.”
- Click Enroll.
