Instructors participate in online courses and webinars to experience and share best practices.

If you are designing or redesigning a fully online course that you plan to teach in the next year or two, consider joining a free faculty learning community to explore and implement research-based online course design and teaching best practices.

Collaborate with UW-Madison instructors and instructional designers through online modules and face-to-face sessions focused on designing and teaching fully online courses.

Goals of the Learning Community

  • Provide an authentic online learning environment to experience pedagogical and technological best practices.
  • Prepare faculty to meet the challenges of designing and teaching quality online courses.
  • Bring together instructors from across campus to share ideas, experiences, successes, and challenges.

The learning community includes two courses: “Plan & Design” and “Facilitation & Management.” You can participate in one or both.

Successfully complete the courses and receive an achievement letter to your dean and department chair and a digital badge/certificate.

For questions, please contact the TeachOnline@UW  project manager, Karen Skibba, at karen.skibba@wisc.edu

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Plan & Design
Summer 2022  applications being accepted
Online course with webinar sessions

Start to plan and design a quality and engaging online course. This is an opportunity to make significant progress on developing or redesigning an online course.

Topics: organizing an online course, developing learning objectives, assessment strategies, instructional materials, and learning activities

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Facilitation & Management
Summer 2022 applications being accepted
Online course with webinar sessions

Explore and put into practice techniques, strategies, and practices to identify and hone your plan for connecting and engaging with students and managing your live online course.

Topics: managing course workload, planning student communication, building online learning communities, creating orientation materials, and facilitating student participation and engagement

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