Presenting the Online Teaching Program

Emerging Trends in Educational Technology November 2019 program

This January, the University of Houston's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences's (CLASS) Office of Educational Technology launched our Online Teaching Program (OTP). Last week I had the pleasure of presenting about it to UH faculty at the university's Emerging Trends in Educational Technology seminar series in a program called Applying the Pedagogy of Online Teaching and Learning to Design a New Pop Culture Course. 😃

Despite providing hundreds of online courses for students, our large university does not have any formal training programs for preparing instructors to teach online. Although the OTP was developed in CLASS, the training program is open to all UH faculty in other colleges who are interested in developing online courses.

In this presentation, I introduced the OTP's mission and goals, explained how Quality Matters and the principle of backward design influenced the training program, and gave an overview of the program's learning modules and outcomes. Melody Li, the first faculty to complete the OTP and receive the CLASS Online Course Grant, followed me by discussing how our program affected her course planning process, and she also shared the design of her course. Lastly, my colleague and co-facilitator of the OTP, Fang Fang, wrapped up the presentation by discussing best practices when designing a course and the results of a recent student survey.

We hope that our training program is a helpful resource for faculty who plan to teach online. You can access the presentation recording and slide below.

Presentation Video:

Presentation Slides

Please note that a few slides became distorted once transferred to Google Slides.