Online Instructor
Instructors who earned this digital credential completed the Office of Online Learning's Training to Teach Online, which focuses on learning the LMS and online teaching pedagogy. They also developed at least one online course to teach the following semester, and worked with the Office of Online Learning to certify their course.
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Earning Criteria
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Prerequisite: Instructors must be existing FIT faculty who have taught on campus for at least 4 semesters.
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Successful completion of training delivered either fully online or in a blended format.
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Instructors must fill out an application to teach online and include approval from their department chairperson.
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After training is complete, instructors must fill out a 45-point checklist based on the Open SUNY OSCQR rubric (Open SUNY Course Quality Review) and research from the Online Learning Consortium. Upon completion of the checklist instructors meet with the Office of Online Learning to certify their online course.