Facilitating Online Courses

Issued by Fitchburg State University

Earners of this badge demonstrate online course facilitation best practices that are engaging, relevant, and meaningful for adult learners. Topics include: contextualizing learning goals for diverse adult learners, creating user-friendly course navigation practices, cultivating instructor presence, fostering an online learning community promoting a culture of academic integrity, practicing DEI principles, integrating multimedia, and fostering a culture of academic integrity.

Type Certification
Level Foundational
Time Hours
Cost Free

Skills

Developing online learning communities
Integrating DEI course design principles
Online Course Facilitation Skills

Earning Criteria

This course has been designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the best practices for facilitating an online learning experience. Self-paced, asynchronous, and modular, each module contains a discreet lesson that can be completed in 10-15 minutes; making the learning experience manageable and easy to start, stop, and restart at a later time. In each module, you explore the lesson content and check your knowledge through quizzes.