Online Teaching Certificate | Office of Instructional Design

We offer a four course, non-credit Online Teaching Certificate program, available to Rutgers and non-Rutgers faculty, staff, and graduate students. These courses are designed to prepare you for online teaching, or sharpen your skills if you are already teaching online. Courses can be completed in any sequence. The Online Teaching Certificate is awarded for successful completion of all four.

Why earn an Online Teaching Certificate from Rutgers Online?

Marketable: Earn a certificate from Rutgers Online, a recognized leader in online education.
Practical: Each course is 100% online and gives you the necessary knowledge and skills to successfully teach online.
High-quality: Each course was designed and developed by instructional design and technology experts with years of online teaching experience.
Affordable: The cost for Rutgers faculty, staff & graduate students is $100 per course, so $400 total for the certificate. The cost for non-Rutgers faculty, staff, and graduate students is $300 per course, so $1,200 for the whole certificate.
Expert Instructors: The courses are taught by instructional design and technology experts from Rutgers, many of whom are also teaching faculty.

Academic Video Production For Online Teaching

Incorporating video within your course content can be powerful and engaging. Videos can stimulate discussions, invite learners to analyze concepts, and emotionally engage the audience. This course is designed to introduce beginners to the basics of producing videos for their online and hybrid courses. Participants will be introduced to common video capture and editing software, lighting and audio tools and techniques, and the process of scripting and storyboarding. Participants will also explore the characteristics of engaging videos, and learn to identify and resolve potential obstacles when producing videos. By the end of the course, participants will create a short video suitable for use in a hybrid or online course. For the video production component of this course, participants are expected to have access to a computer with a web-camera and microphone installed.

Format:

This non-credit course is offered in the Canvas LMS, online over a 6-week period with scheduled assignment due dates. It is asynchronous, but not self-paced.

Available Section

May 13th, 2024 - June 23rd, 2024 - Instructors: Behi Abdi, Walker Perry, Ariel Saulog
- Registration closes: May 10th, 2024
- Note: Registration is first-come, first-served. To ensure a consistent experience between our certificate courses, enrollment cannot be exceeded for any reason.

Engaging Students In Online Courses

In this five-week course we’ll explore and learn to apply seven crucial principles for engaging online students. Through the use of ongoing story-based case studies, you’ll be introduced to a cast of five fictional students taking an online class. Each of these characters engages and disengages and presents you, as the instructor, an opportunity. Through weekly readings, activities, and a two-week group project we’ll identify challenges and techniques in student engagement. Together we’ll identify the gestures—small and grand—that you can make to better engage your online students.

Format:

This non-credit course is offered in the Canvas LMS, online over a 5-week period with scheduled assignment due dates. It is asynchronous, but not self-paced.

Available Section

March 18 through April 14th, 2024 - Instructor: Suparna Sinha, Hanna Kim
- Registration closes: March 15th, 2024, or when the session reaches capacity.
- Note: Registration is first-come, first-served. To ensure a consistent experience between our certificate courses, enrollment cannot be exceeded for any reason.

July 8th through August 11th, 2024 - Instructor: Suparna Sinha, Hanna Kim
- Registration closes: July 5th, 2024, or when the session reaches capacity.
- Note: Registration is first-come, first-served. To ensure a consistent experience between our certificate courses, enrollment cannot be exceeded for any reason.

Fundamentals of Designing and Teaching Online Courses

When first developing an online or hybrid course, instructors can feel at sea and as though they have little solid knowledge on which to base their choices for course activities and delivery. There is an ongoing body of research on what makes an effective online course, though, and this course is designed to provide a base of such pedagogical knowledge to help instructors accurately judge the impact of their decisions when developing and teaching their own online courses. Holding this course itself online also provides an introduction to common learning management system (LMS) elements. Participants will gain insight into their role as an instructor for an online course and learn best practices for teaching online, and will apply these practices by developing a sample course unit. This course is designed for beginners and the material we will cover is broadly applicable to any course delivered through an LMS.

Format:

This non-credit course is offered in the Canvas LMS, online over a 5-week period with scheduled assignment due dates. It is asynchronous, but not self-paced.

Available Section

January 22nd, 2024 through February 25th, 2024 - Instructors: Mary Labrada, Karen Harris
- Registration closes: January 19th, 2024
- Note: Registration is first-come, first-served. To ensure a consistent experience between our certificate courses, enrollment cannot be exceeded for any reason.

May 13th, 2024 through June 16th, 2024 - Instructors: Mary Labrada, Karen Harris
- Registration closes: May 10th, 2024
- Note: Registration is first-come, first-served. To ensure a consistent experience between our certificate courses, enrollment cannot be exceeded for any reason.

Universal Design And Accessibility In Online Education

This course introduces some basic concepts related to accessibility in online courses, and the benefits of using "universal design" for course materials. Participants will learn about the wide variety of access challenges, in online courses, and practice creating robust and broadly accessible materials. While the course does not focus on legal issues, it will provide a brief review of some pertinent legislation on access and disability.

Format:

This non-credit course is offered in the Canvas LMS, online over a 5-week period with scheduled assignment due dates. It is asynchronous, but not self-paced.

Available Section

October 30th 2023 - December 3rd, 2023 - Instructors: Dena Novak, Natalia Kouraeva
- Registration closes: October 27th, 2023
- Note: Registration is first-come, first-served. To ensure a consistent experience between our certificate courses, enrollment cannot be exceeded for any reason.

July 8th 2024 - August 11th, 2024 - Instructors: Dena Novak, Natalia Kouraeva
- Registration closes: July 5th, 2024
- Note: Registration is first-come, first-served. To ensure a consistent experience between our certificate courses, enrollment cannot be exceeded for any reason.