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Edison State Instructors Go Back to School to Expand Online-Teaching Skills
Ultimate Goal is Improving Student Success
Piqua, Ohio – Seven faculty members from Edison State Community College
have jumped at the chance to improve their online teaching skills by
participating in a 25-week Effective Online Teaching Practices course
offered in collaboration with the Association of College and University
Educators (ACUE).
The instructors will be joining more than 150 faculty members from 22
Ohio community colleges as they learn and implement equity-promoting,
evidence-based teaching practices shown to improve student engagement,
persistence, course completion, and learning.
The program is part of a collaboration between the Ohio Association of
Community Colleges (OACC) and the Association of College and University
Educators (ACUE). ACUE programs in effective teaching practices are
based on more than three decades of research that demonstrates
effective teaching improves learning for all students.
Considered a graduate-level course, the program consists of 25 modules
separated into four blocks—Creating an Inclusive and Supportive Online
Learning Environment, Promoting Active Learning Online, Inspiring
Inquiry and Lifelong Learning in Your Online Course, and Designing an
Effective Course.
Equity-promoting teaching practices are among the hundreds of
recommended approaches that faculty learn about and develop in ACUE
courses, as demonstrated in ACUE’s Inclusive and Equitable Teaching
Curriculum Crosswalk.
Faculty members Tanita Brock, Rachael Detraz, Michael Houser, Rebekah
James, Vickie Kirk, Beka Lindeman, and Levi Smith will be teaching
classes at Edison State while taking the course, which begins this
month, so they will use what they learn immediately. Faculty who
satisfy program requirements will be awarded ACUE’s Certificate in
Effective College Instruction, the only nationally-recognized college
teaching credential endorsed by the American Council on Education.
The opportunity is offered free of charge to faculty through a
partnership between ACUE and OACC’s Success Center as part of the Every
Learner Everywhere (ELE) initiative—and was made possible by Achieving
the Dream (ATD), an ELE network partner.
Jack Hershey, president and chief executive officer of the OACC, said
the training will teach faculty ways to keep their online courses fresh
and impactful.
“We are working hard to level the playing field to close equity gaps
among Ohio students,” Hershey said. “Offering this course to faculty is
one more way to do that.”
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