The Master Course in Online Teaching (MCOT) is a deep dive for faculty into online teaching strategies that extend what was presented at the Online Teaching Academy (2020) and the Illinois Summer Teaching Institute (2021). Participants will participate in four modules and learn the following skills.

Skills and Knowledge

Curriculum

Module 1: Designing Your Online Course

1. Apply the backward design approach to help your students align their self-regulated learning strategies.
2. Explain ways to reduce student cognitive load.
3. Create a graphic representation of your course to conceptualize how you will tell the story of your course to students.

Module 2: Developing Your Learning Community

1. Explain how the three presences work together to advance student learning in the Community of Inquiry framework.
2. Integrate elements of the Community of Inquiry framework into your course to develop your online learning community.
3. Explain how teaching presence can be used in your learning community by you and your students.

Module 3: Adapting Best Teaching Practices to Your Online Course

1. Describe how to use metacognition to improve your online teaching effectiveness.
2. Explain why it may be difficult for experts to teach novices by using the hierarchy of competence framework.
3. Predict where you can scaffold instruction for your students based on their Zone of Proximal Development.

Module 4: Motivating Your Students to Excel

1. Apply evidence-based strategies to increase and sustain your students' motivation in your online course.
2. Structure your teaching to empower your students to become self-directed learners.