ITDS offers a number of facilitated courses throughout the year offered in an online asynchronous format. Our Faculty Development Series: Empowering Online Teaching and Learning offers a comprehensive look at critical elements of teaching and learning online. All faculty members at Montclair State University are encouraged to take EOTL101 before teaching online for the first time. Faculty members who have already taken our foundations course or seek additional opportunities to enhance online teaching practices are invited to explore all courses in our series focused on student engagement, assessment, and multimedia. If you’re looking to learn more about one specific instructional technology, be sure to check out our calendar of existing workshops with open registration. If you’re interested in a more personalized approach, we have one-on-one consultations available on a variety of topics.
Below, you will find more details on our faculty development opportunities:
EOTL101 – Empowering Online Teaching and Learning: Foundations for Success is the foundational course intended to provide faculty with an overview of online teaching and learning, applicable to both online and hybrid courses. Participants will explore strategies for creating inclusive online learning environments, the qualities of successful online instructors, and considerations for conducting effective assessments online. Standards for evaluating online courses to align with best pedagogical practices will also be shared. The cohort experience allows for a rich exchange of ideas and practices between faculty and peers across the university. ITDS is offering the course this Summer, July 22nd to August 11th and again October 14th to November 10th, 2024.
EOTL102 – Empowering Online Teaching and Learning: Student Engagement Tools and Techniques is an asynchronous course that aims to provide faculty with a conceptual framework of student engagement as well as strategies and tools that they can implement in their own teaching practices. Join to learn new strategies, test out instructional technologies, and share knowledge and experiences with your colleagues! ITDS will offer this course again September 16th to October 6th, 2024.
EOTL103 – Empowering Online Teaching and Learning: Innovative Design for Effective Assessments is an asynchronous course intended to provide faculty with a variety of innovative assessment strategies to improve student learning outcomes in online, hybrid, or in-person classes. This course introduces techniques and emerging technologies to help you build or improve how you evaluate student learning. Faculty can refine or develop assessment plans for course(s) or focus on enhancing specific activities and assignments. ITDS will offer this course again February 17th to March 9th, 2025.
EOTL104 – Empowering Online Teaching and Learning: Creating DIY Multimedia to Enhance Learning is an asynchronous course that provides faculty with the training needed to produce quality academic media content from the comfort of one’s home or office. This course is intended to equip faculty with the necessary skills to plan, record, and edit multimedia content for courses. ITDS will offer this course again March 24th to April 20th, 2025.