Virtual Instructor Certification Program
Virtual Instruction
The Internet and the World Wide Web are powerful resources to enhance teaching and learning. Educators can use the Web to raise the quality of teaching and learning in traditional live classrooms as well as to reach a wider audience of students through Web-based courses. Web-based teaching and learning requires instructors to develop a new set of skills. The Virtual Instructor Certification course teaches the skills that are essential to use Web-based resources for effective teaching and learning. The course will enable educators to create both Web-based courses and Web-support for traditional face-to-face classrooms.  Knowledge of Blackboard Release 6.1 is a prerequisite for the course.

Collaborative videoconferencing is more than just interactive video.  It is the use of a variety of telecommunication technologies to connect teachers, learners, and content, and to foster collaboration across geographic distances.  The Virtual Instructor Certification Program will provide educators with the skills and strategies to collaborate effectively across distances using videoconferencing and other technologies.

Each participant will

  • Convert a traditional course to Web-based modality or develop a Web site to support a traditional teaching/learning environment (classroom).

  • Explore the Web-based courseware product: Blackboard Release 6.1.

  • Gain experience as a learner in a Web-based course.

  • Network with other educators utilizing Web-based instruction.

  • Apply principles of learning and instructional design.

  • Learn to use the tools of Web-based instruction.

  • Get peer and expert support during initial implementation of Web-based course.

  • Get acquainted with the  basic equipment and operations of interactive video in order to facilitate videoconferences.

  • Adapt materials and management techniques to a distant learning environment.

  • Will design and develop presentations for distance learning environments using multimedia and other delivery modalities.
Who Should Participate?

Higher Education Faculty
The program is designed for faculty, trainers, and instructors who want to teach a Web-based course.

Public School Teachers, Technology Coordinators, Administrators
This program is designed for teachers, technology coordinators, and administrators who want to teach Web-supported courses and/or Web-based courses.
How it Works

The program includes on-ground instruction as well as on-line instruction. The course begins with the on-line component. Participants will experience an on-line course from the student's perspective.  This class will provide you with experiences in on-line: 1) content delivery 2) interaction and 3) assessment.

For the on-ground component of the course, participants will bring course materials to the session where they will learn to modify them for web-based delivery and discuss various issues related to course conversion.  Participants will also learn interactive strategies and presentation techniques for videoconferencing course delivery.
Program

On-line component of  the Course
June 30 - July 13

Week one: Participants will evaluate assigned web sites and use threaded discussions to respond to questions about the sites.

Week two: Participants will gather the materials and media needed for their Web-based course according to a set of guidelines provided by the instructors.

On-ground component of the Course - SAU campus
July 14-16 

Participants will be introduced to courseware and technologies, learn principles related to media and on-line learning, and participate in hands-on training to assist them in developing courses for delivery over distance.

Continuing Education and/or Professional Development Credit

Certificates of program certification from the Learning Technologies Partnership will be awarded for completion of the course. This program was developed in cooperation with Southern Arkansas University and the Center for Distance Learning Research at Texas A&M University. Participants may choose to receive continuing education units and/or *professional development credit. (*Note: Professional development credit should be arranged through your employer/school.)

To Register

Complete and submit the on-line Registration Form. Please mail your check or credit card information (number, expiration date, type of card) to

Learning Technologies Partnership
Continuing Education
Southern Arkansas University
P.O. Box 9240
Magnolia, AR 71754-9240
Phone: 870-235-4005
Fax: 870-235-5110

For additional information, please contact
Sandra Walker
Phone: 870-235-4006
E-mail - slwalker@saumag.edu

Cost
The Virtual Instructor Certification Program is an extensive learning experience. The cost for the program is $750 per person and a minimum number of participants is required. Participants should register by Thursday, June 17, 2004. 

Learning Technologies Partnership

LTP is a partnership of educational and private sector entities. Its purpose is to advance the use of technology in the learning environment.
Future Certification Programs
  • Collaborative Videoconferencing
  • PC Academy
  • Multimedia
  • Mind Tools: Technology for Teaching and Learning
  • Distance Education

Virtual Instructor Certification Program
Registration Form
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