Online Teaching for Educators - Development and Delivery

Overview

Online education has been growing and evolving for some time. COVID-19 has accelerated this shift, along with increasing recognition of the benefits of distributed learning, such as flexibility, accessibility, and scale.

And yet globally, instructors and administrators continue to grapple with the transition to teaching online. Navigating the online environment can be daunting and difficult to do well, especially while catering to a variety of student needs. Many of us feel overwhelmed and ill-equipped to plan and create high-quality, effective online course content that maximizes student engagement.

Designed for educators and administrators, this hands-on professional certificate program will help you harness and evaluate technology, and effectively plan, develop, implement and deliver engaging and enduring online programs. You will gain the knowledge to assess and implement pedagogical technologies, and contribute to strategic decisions around online course design, teaching and learning.

The Online Teaching for Educators - Development and Delivery programme in collaboration with University of British Columbia - UBCx is a Professional Certificate. 

Job Outlook

• COVID-19 has resulted in school closures in 130 countries: globally, as of Fall 2020, 1 billion children are out of the classroom, with many learning online for the first time.
• Educational technology adoption was proliferating even before COVID-19, with global edtech investments reaching US$18.66 billion in 2019, and the broader online education market projected to reach $350 Billion by 2025.
• Pre-COVID, 64% of U.S. middle school students and 63% of high school students were using digital learning tools at school daily, with 92% of students indicating that they would like to continue using these tools as or more often.
• 81% of K-12 principals see great value in using digital learning tools now, 93% see great value in using these tools in the future.