Central State Global Faculty Online Certification Program
Program Description
The Faculty Online Certification (FOC) Program is a three-part training program that faculty are required to complete to teach online at Central State University. Faculty have 9 months from the date of the first day of class they teach to complete all three modules in this training series.
Modules A and C are both administered in D2L and successful participants will receive Certificates of Mastery and course completion badges to post on their D2L profiles for the respective courses. Certificates are good for three years from the date of completion. Users will receive a notification from D2L 6 months before their Module A and C certificate expire.
Module B is not administered within D2L, but a Certificate of Completion is issued by Quality Matters. Faculty are expected to maintain QM certifications that are no older than 3 years old. This means faculty must re-certify their QM APPQMR certificate every three years. Faculty WILL NOT be notified of this expiration date and will be responsible for maintaining an up-to-date certification.
If any one of the three certificates expires, faculty will not be permitted to teach online until all three certificates are re-certified.
Faculty Online Certification Module Descriptions
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Through a course accessed in the D2L environment, Faculty will receive the necessary training to successfully navigate and use the basic tools available in D2L Faculty have a choice to choose the Self-Paced Track or the Fast-Track as options for completion.
- Faculty will need to demonstrate 80% mastery in order to be eligible to have access to Module B.
- Module A is managed and facilitated by the LMS team. To be enrolled in Module A email lmsadmins@centralstate.edu
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Through a course facilitated within Quality Matters LMS, Faculty will Learn the underlying principles behind the QM Rubric and the critical elements of the QM quality assurance process. In addition to learning about the QM Rubric and the course review process, participants will learn to apply the concept of alignment.
- Earning the APPQMR Certificate is a pre-requisite for accessing Module C.
- Module B enrollment is managed by the Instructional Course Designer Team. To be enrolled in Module B, instructionalcoursedesignerscentralstate.edu@centralstate.edu
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Through a course facilitated in the D2L environment, Faculty will learn the basics of effective course design for both online hybrid and web-enhanced courses while implementing Quality Matters design standards. Faculty will explore best practices in teaching online, hybrid and web-enhanced courses while focusing on the theory and pedagogy of teaching online. Module C is the capstone course in which faculty demonstrate what they have learned in Modules A and B by creating and submitting a course for evaluation to the course facilitators.
- Faculty will need to demonstrate 80% mastery in order to pass Module C.
- Module C is managed and facilitated by the Instructional Course Designer Team. To be enrolled in Module C, instructionalcoursedesignerscentralstate.edu@centralstate.edu