OLTD Program Outcomes
Distance learning is one of BC's educational growth areas and teachers with expertise in this rewarding field are in popular demand. The program was designed in cooperation with professionals and school district distance learning principals to meet the needs of today's 21st Century online learners.
This innovative, two-year part-time, fully-online, 30 credit program, develops confident educators competent in the use of existing and emergent technologies to optimize online learning and teaching opportunities for diverse learners in equally diverse environments. Through digital immersion in a variety of environments, students will explore theory and its practical applications based on research, as well as current and emergent practices.
This innovative, two-year part-time, fully-online, 30 credit program, develops confident educators competent in the use of existing and emergent technologies to optimize online learning and teaching opportunities for diverse learners in equally diverse environments. Through digital immersion in a variety of environments, students will explore theory and its practical applications based on research, as well as current and emergent practices.
http://www.viu.ca/education/oltd/
OLTD PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Become familiar with common terms, definitions and elements related to online environments
- Demonstrate basic competency with design and implementation within a variety of online learning environments and tools
- Plan learning opportunities most suitable to the strengths and challenges of a variety of environments
- Develop and design intentional learning activities suitable for the appropriate environment and the learner
- Incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles
- Select strategies and resources appropriate for environment, learners and learning outcomes
- Understand, design and commit to student success in online learning environments
- Design inclusive learning environments
- Share engagement strategies and tips
- Engage in mentoring and coaching with educational partners
- Work with families and students to establish effective learning plans
- Undertake engagement with environments through online facilitation for effective learning
- Moderation and mediation
- Understand how to build rapport and manage groups
- Establish relationships with learners and families
- Build teacher to student rapport
- Engage in building learning communities and communities of practice
- Critically assess and evaluate resources for best practice in online learning
- Create assessment and evaluation methods/tools most suitable to the strengths and challenges of online environments
- Scaffold digital citizenship from K-12 to professional level of educators
- Consider responsibility, accountibility and civility in online environments
- Integrate current cognitive learning and brain-based learning theory
- Examine current research around best practices and emerging practices
- Develop practical and technical skills in all phases of concept, development, design, implementation, etc.
- Develop skills to optimize learning experiences through personalization
- Based on characteristics, needs, stages of development, current 21st Century personalized learning mandates, etc..
- Engage in service learning