Technology Tools for Online Learning

8 Week Course/Instructor Led/Weekly Modules/Earn a Digital Credential

Description

Whether you are new to teaching with technology or a seasoned veteran, you will find this course valuable and extremely useful. You, the participants, drive this course through asynchronous discussion and interaction. Delivered totally online, the purpose of this course is to introduce you to some issues concerning the use of technology and to many of the available tools.  The main emphasis of this course is to introduce participants to some issues concerning the use of technology and the many available tools.

Program

ION Professional eLearning Programs. 

Outcomes

As a result of completing course activities and interacting in discussion forums, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss some issues surrounding the use of technology in courses and curricula.
  • Introduce faculty to a wide variety of technological tools.
  • Examine tools and explore how they enhance or detract from educational objectives.
  • Provide faculty with criteria with which to judge new tools as they emerge.
  • Discuss technology tools from the student’s perspective.
  • Select and implement appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning, demonstrating, and articulating the relationship between the tool and pedagogy and the features of the tool necessary to make its use successful.

Prerequisite

None. 

Certificate Series

Master Online Teacher (MOT) Professional Certificate elective