Creating effective online learning courses and simulations can be a challenge. There are tools and techniques, as well as best practices, that can help those designing and creating online learning content for organizations and institutions of higher education. This Certificate in Online Learning offered by the National Institute of Online Learning (NIOL) draws upon the lessons learned by the creative, editorial, and technical teams at MindEdge Learning. MindEdge Learning, founded in 1998, has developed online courses and simulations used by hundreds of thousands of students in higher education and the private sector. This training certificate offers instruction on the major models, tools, and techniques in creating and delivering online learning. It reviews the fundamentals of general learning theory and how it can be applied, in practice, to online design and instruction. Further, the certificate provides a brief survey of the technology employed in online learning, best practices for teaching online, strategies for integrating narrative learning into an educational curriculum, and the basics of developing accessible online learning.
Each of these self-paced courses offer an assortment of interactive exercises, selected readings, and self-assessments. Upon successful completion of all courses in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
You will have 365 days to begin each course in this bundle. Once you open an individual course, you will have 90 days to complete it.
Courses included in this certificate program are as follows:
- Introduction to Online Learning
- Teaching Online
- The Technology of Online Learning
- Narrative Learning
- Online Learning Accessibility
In addition to the individual courses included in this bundle, you will also be enrolled in a course for the entire bundle, Certificate in Online Learning Capstone. You can use this course to track your progress through the set of courses. When you have completed all the individual courses and checked them off the list in this bundle course, there is a survey for you to complete about the bundle in order to receive your certificate for the entire bundle.