Prerequisites and Certification

Prerequisites: eL201, eL301 recommended, and Clark College Employee

Certification: Clark eLearning Active Delivery Certification

Completion of the following workshops:

eL301 Introduction to Active Delivery
eL302 Equity-Minded and Culturally Responsive Teaching for Student Motivation and Success
eL303 Presence in the Phases of a Course
eL304 Active Delivery Strategies
eL305 Active Delivery and Scaffolding

Active Delivery Certification Program Description and Program Learning Objectives (PLOs)

Format

This is a 2 week, fully online asynchronous workshop, intentionally modeling online courses, and there are no scheduled Zoom meetings. This workshop is not self-paced and there are weekly due dates of Thursday for initial posts and Sunday for reply posts and all other assignments.

The only exception is during Week 1 when we have an early due date of Tuesday for the Orientation assignments. You will receive a Canvas invitation to access the workshop the Friday before the workshop starts if you would like to complete the Orientation assignments early.

There is an optional third week if you need extra time to complete the final deliverables.

Workshop Preparation

This workshop includes working on learning activities and deliverables for a course that has online instruction for the learning activities and deliverables. Identify a fully online asynchronous course you plan to work on for the learning activities and deliverables in this workshop before the workshop starts.

If your course is hybrid or online scheduled (remote):

You can use a hybrid or online scheduled (remote) course for this workshop, focus on planning the online instructional components of the course for the learning activities and deliverables.

If your course is in-person:

Please contact your division/department chair to strategize on which courses you might teach fully online asynchronous for in the future. It's important to identify a course before the workshop starts.

Workshop Description

In this workshop, we will focus on the following themes:

define student retention, persistence, success, and completion
implement motivation, engagement, student success, diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies to support student success and completion
create a "Week 1" academic activity that meets Financial Aid requirements
create an accessible syllabus applying the eLearning Syllabus Template

Workshop Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop you should be able to:

Apply motivation, success, persistence and diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies to your course
Apply quality, accessibility, and equity and inclusion to syllabus using Clark College eLearning Syllabus Checklist/Template
items, Quality Matters (QM) standards
Apply Department of Education "Week 1" requirement for students demonstrate their participation in the subject matter of your
course

Late Work/No Show Policy

Participants who have not begun actively participating in the learning activities by Thursday morning of Week 1 will be removed from the workshop.

We facilitators will “nudge” you each week about any missing learning activities, assessments, or deliverables. Make sure to review your feedback to ensure that you’re achieving the intended learning and application from the workshop.

Our rigorous workshop schedule does not permit us to extend deadlines beyond the final workshop date.

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