Certificate of Online Teaching

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About the Program

The Certificate of Online Teaching Program aims to make an effective contribution to the teaching practices and experiences offered in the online environment. The effects of the rapid development of information and communication technologies in the past decades have been directly seen in many other areas as well as in the world of education.

This new learning and teaching model, which is used under various names such as e-learning, digital learning, online learning, distance learning differs from traditional classroom and face-to-face learning and teaching models with its own set of practices, approaches and techniques. Educational institutions on a global scale, particularly at higher education level, have launched many undergraduate and graduate programs that are run in fully-online, hybrid, web-enhanced, synchronous (simultaneous), asynchronous (non-simultaneous) formats. It is anticipated that the number of these programs will keep increasing. Due to this, it is inevitable for educators to apply new methods that will be pedagogically efficient in online education models as much as they have been with the traditional teaching models. The content of the Certificate of Online Teaching Program prepared by Ibn Haldun University will be run in a fully-online fashion, and aims to contribute to the participants in the aspects of online education pedagogy, effective cognitive-affective communication and interaction with the learner, instructional design, course design, assessment and evaluation, and last but not least a new learning and teaching culture with reflections on current teaching methods.

Program Goals

• To get familiarised with the techniques to create a positive e-learning environment and communicate effectively with the learner
• To complete an effective course design and planning process in any academic discipline
• To gain hands-on experience in e-learning platforms, learning management systems and digital educational tools.
• To be able to design curriculum and syllabus contents that are aligned with learning objectives and outcomes.
• To learn about the formative and summative online assessment and evaluation methods that are aligned with learning objectives and outcomes
• To ensure effective participation of learners within the philosophy of ‘learning by doing’
• To enrich the philosophy of education with e-learning, which has its own unique approaches.

Who Should Attend?

This online program is prepared for innovative individuals, who are open to professional development at educational institutions and want to improve their teaching methods and skills from every discipline. Competencies that the program aims to bring to the participants;

• Effective Instruction which includes active learning and teaching techniques,
• In addition to traditional pedagogical knowledge, presenting new age, technology-enriched learning applications and tools,
• Effective lesson preparation, teaching instruments, lesson and course design and applications at any educational level,
• Technical and scientific approaches to improve teaching competence,
• Student motivation, assessment and evaluation, syllabus and curriculum alignment and item building competencies and practices in online education.

Program Duration and Schedule

The program consists of 2 levels: Basic Certificate of Online Teaching and Advanced Certificate of Online Teaching Basic Certificate of Online Teaching Program (15 Hours) Advanced Certificate of Online Teaching Program (18 Hours)

Content of the Program

Ibn Haldun University Program

First participants of the Certificate of Online Teaching program are Ibn Haldun University lecturers. On September the 7^th, first group of lecturers will start the program. All lecturers in our university will be attending this program until September the 18^th in 6 groups. Each module will last 3 hours a day with a total of 15 hours throughout program. All sessions will start at 10:30 AM. Groups will be established due to the choices of lecturers. You may find the schedule below; starting from 7^th of September and continuing with 6 consecutive groups.  All lecturers will choose a convenient group for themselves by filling out a submission form which will be sent to them before the placement. Each group will be limited to maximum 18 participants. Once the group reaches the limit of 18, late submissions will be placed to another group.