EPIC Mentor
Issued by
NC Community College System
Mentors support faculty new to online teaching or new to teaching online at Wake Tech. Mentors provide support for new online faculty while completing their online certification requirements and provide guidance to new online faculty on best practices for online teaching and learning as they become acquainted with the most current information in their online teaching career.
- Type Certification
- Level Intermediate
- Cost Free
Skills
Earning Criteria
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To be an EPIC Mentor, advanced professional development courses in Accessible Course Design are completed. These courses include Accessible Word Documents, PowerPoint, and Video Captioning.
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Mentors also complete training related to best practices, policies, goal setting, time management, relationship building, communication, and conflict resolution.
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In addition, Mentors complete the EPIC Exemplary Course Capstone. With supervisor recommendation, participants are assigned an Instructional Designer who will act as a consultant and mentor over a semester in updating an existing online course to achieve exemplary status. The end product is a course that has pedagogically sound design and contains engaging content, learning activities, and assessments.