Plan of Study – Grad Cert Online Instruction

Note: A Semester Hour (s.h.) is a unit of academic credit representing an hour of class (such as lecture class) or three hours of laboratory work each week for an academic semester. Most courses are two, three or four semester hours.

Grad Cert Online Instruction

Certificate Requirements (Minimum of 12 semester hours required.)

EDU 5410 Instructional Design for Online Learning (3 s.h.)

Evaluation and application of instructional design theories and principles for online course delivery. Examination of fully online, hybrid, self-paced, and facilitated e-learning experiences delivered via learning management systems. Focus on the authorship of instructional units that include information retrieval, web site construction and evaluation, and the integration of video and multimedia. Application of accessibility and usability guidelines in web-based course design.

EDU 5430 Media Production for Online Instruction (3 s.h.)

Students learn techniques and strategies for creating new instructional media for use with online instruction, and ways to convert conventional resources into appropriate electronic formats. Technical issues related to balancing media quality and user bandwidth limitations are analyzed.

EDU 6430 Online Assessment Practices (3 s.h.)

Construction of a valid assessment plan for online courses. The assessment plan incorporates the standards embodied in The Michigan Curriculum Framework using a web-based course management system. Principles of valid assessment are enacted through technology tools that include online assignments, pod casts, threaded discussions, test preparation tools, secure tests, and differentiated assessment strategies. Prerequisites: EDU 5410 and 5430.

EDU 6880 Online Teaching Project and Practicum (3 s.h.)

Students design a teaching unit for online instruction and field test the lessons with a sample of age approporiate students. Prerequisites: EDU 6410, 6430, and 6450.