Earning Criteria

• Instructor for the Quinnipiac University Online Teaching Boot Camp. The boot camp sought to answer the question " What does it take to design an online learning experience that engages students and fosters their construction of new understandings – and how can we pivot quickly to an online format?"  The course consisted of the following modules:  Opening the Door | Structuring & Centering | Teaching Strategies | Building Community and was conducted asynchronously over the course of two weeks.
• Participated in the curricular design and creation of the QU Online Teaching Boot Camp.
• Designed and delivered learning experiences so that active  participants could successfully masteri the learning objectives for Module 1 (Opening the Door)  Consider preconceived ideas about online learning  | Convey online presence through tone and language | Establish place, culture and rhythm in an online course.
• Designed and delivered learning experiences so that active  participants could successfully master the learning objectives for Module 2 (Structuring & Centering)  and have a fundamental understanding of how to:  Emphasize the importance of creating a "central location" for content and communications  |Describe the overall structure of an asynchronous course in Blackboard.
• Designed and delivered learning experiences so that active  participants could successfully master the learning objectives for Module 3 (Teaching Strategies)  and have a fundamental understanding of how to:  Explore strategies for engaging learners and foster learning in online spaces | List the affordances of available tools in the online space.
• Designed and delivered learning experiences so that active  participants could successfully master the learning objectives for Module 4 (Building Community)  and have a fundamental understanding of how to:  Recognize the role of community within an online course  | Establish their own guidelines for communicating with students | Develop a communications plan for their online course