The Online Teacher Training Course in Canvas - June

The OTTCC is the Online Teacher Training Course in Canvas that prepares instructors to teach online by combining best practices in online education, current trends in educational technologies, and modular design in Canvas.

Competency Based : This is a competency based course that allows expert online instructors to receive credit for imported work from a previous online course while helping new instructors and instructors new to Ventura College understand the best practices and learning management skills necessary in succeeding in online instruction at Ventura College.

Time Commitment: For the instructor who is new to teaching online, this course is a four week course with roughly 8 to 10 hours a week of learning, participation, and course design; however, an experienced instructor in online education at Ventura College or elsewhere will find that after importing from a Desire to Learn course or another course management system that he or she can demonstrate competency in a variety of topics in this course to proceed through the entire course at a faster pace.

What is in the course? This course is comprised of timely and relevant information as well as consistent best practices for Ventura College and the Online Education Initiative. The course focuses upon the concepts and the goals from the OEI Course Rubric for Online Course Design, the Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning from @One, and the Introduction to Teaching in Canvas Courses from the OEI Project.

We are also using best practices that we developed from our usage of Desire 2 Learn, the previous Online Teaching and Learning Course in Desire 2 Learn, and the Distance Education Committee recommendations from these past several years. This course will introduce a variety of best practices in online teaching, some teaching strategies, some management techniques to improve student success, and course design needs in Canvas. Welcome to the OTTCC! There is something for everyone.

Priority Registration: It is import to keep in mind that current distance education faculty, those in the OEI project, and those who have been hired to teach online courses are a first priority as we are no longer training in Desire 2 Learn and need to prepare these instructors for online teaching and hybrid teaching in Canvas for Fall 2016. Web enhanced instructors will have time to continue using Desire 2 Learn until the Spring of 2017, and instructors who have not yet been assigned an online class will have opportunities to take future course offerings.

Optional Meeting Dates for Four Week Course:

Optional Web Conference Kickoff Date at all Three Campuses with live attendance at local campus:
Wednesday June 1st 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android:

http://cccconfer.org/GoToMeeting?SeriesID=7d5caa04-7edf-42b3-942e-2f77becdd233

Or join by phone:
Dial your telephone conference line: 1-913-312-3202*
Participant Passcode: 141614

*Toll free number available: 1-888-886-3951

Optional Monday Web Conference Meetings for all Three Campuses:
Starting June 6th and continuing for four weeks - 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Optional Friday Demonstrations with local Instructional Technologist:
10:00 am - 11:00 am at Ventura College
Other Campuses will post their times in the course.

Moorpark College Tuesdays 12pm-1:30pm in LLR 121