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Online Learning also offers the opportunity for 1-to-1 or small group training with our staff on request. We provide training to faculty and staff on our supported technologies, as well as providing instructional design assistance on using online resources effectively.

If you are a student in an online learning course, please refer to the Online Learning Student Community in myCourses for documentation and tutorials.

Online Learning offers training for faculty in a variety of forms. These are the types of trainings events offered:

  • Group Training: These events take place in the TLT Lab and are focused on the course management system, myCourses. You can register ahead of time for these events.
  • Webinars: These events take place through the web conferencing tool, Connect. There is no need to register for these events.
  • Events: These events are special events that may not focus specifically on training for an instructional technology, but may be a discussion of best practices or a small gathering of faculty.

For events requiring registration (Webinars do not require registration), registration is open until four hours prior to the start date and time. Please make sure to register early.

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Essentials of Online Teaching - Summer edition

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Monday July 14, 2008 -
Friday August 01, 2008




Event Contact: Katie McDonald
RIT’s Online Learning department is offering another version of the online course, Essentials of Online Teaching, for RIT instructors with little or no online teaching experience. It is conducted entirely online (no face-to-face sessions are required) within RIT’s course management system, myCourses. The course is a three-week sequence of interactive online activities that simulate a real online course, yet have online teaching as its subject matter.

Just like a real online course, there will be short assignments that will expose you to the commonly used features of the course management system, as well as allow you to reflect on common practices that other faculty use in their online courses. Participants will also be provided with a “sandbox” course shell in myCourses in which to incorporate the results of these assignments. This course is not intended to cover all the aspects of teaching online, but should provide participants with a sound platform from which to further develop their online teaching skills. Participants should expect to spend four hours each week on course work. Participants will receive a $300 pre-tax stipend and certificate of completion for successfully completing the course.

For additional information about the course, please contact Katie McDonald at kametc@rit.edu or 585-475-7657.