Online learning (OL) courses help faculty improve skills for online teaching and service. The courses are open to all current Penn State faculty, staff, and graduate students and are offered in a self-directed or instructor-led format. Self-directed courses can be completed at your own pace. Instructor-led courses are facilitated by Penn State faculty and simulate the online student experience.
Courses begin on the first Monday of the designated month. If that date falls on a national or university holiday, participants will be notified of the start date.
Course registration closes two weeks before the start date for instructor-led courses. All course work should be completed within the designated course timeline.
OL 3000: Supporting Accommodations for Online Learners
OL 3000 consists of six scenarios that guide you through processes that support student accessibility to online learning.
OL 3800: Excellence in Academic Advising
OL 3800 provides you with a solid foundation for best practices in academic advising. Access to the advising toolkit is a valuable resource that can be used now and in the future.
OL 2000: Essentials of Online Teaching
OL 2000 provides you with a solid foundation to practice effective online teaching. Activities focus on discussion management, assessment techniques, developing learning activities, reflective practice, and planning for future development and community building.
OL 2150: Canvas Hands On
OL 2150 builds on concepts covered in OL 2100 and focuses on hands-on training for those who are developing courses in Canvas.
OL 2050: Essentials of Online Teaching for Graduate Students
The Graduate Online Teaching Certificate combines an online course with other activities to provide a foundation for graduate students new to online teaching.
OL 2100: Introduction to Canvas
OL 2100 is designed to build faculty competency in using many features of Penn State's Learning Management System (LMS), Canvas.
OL 2600: Course Authoring Accessibility Basics
The goal of this course is to equip faculty with knowledge about accessible web practices and course design as they author courses in Canvas, and to provide a broader perspective of who our World Campus…
OL 3100: Teaching the Adult Learner
OL 3100 provides a basic understanding of the adult learner and assists instructors with effective teaching methodologies.
OL 2000: Essentials of Online Teaching
OL 2000 provides you with a solid foundation to practice effective online teaching. Activities focus on discussion management, assessment techniques, developing learning activities, reflective practice, and planning for future development and community building.
OL 3300: Teaching the International Student
On-line American universities such Penn State are uniquely situated to offer online degree programs to an international audience. Penn State already has a large international population in residence education, but as online programs go global,…
OL 3850: Excellence in Academic Advising: Under-resourced students II
This course is part two of the different student populations, called “under-resourced” students and how to provide quality academic advising based on the essential components and unique characteristics of each student population. Topics include advising…
OL 1200: Student Support and Advocacy in Online Learning
OL 1200 consists of two major components: This course was designed to help faculty and staff determine the most appropriate and efficient ways to help students who may be experiencing different forms of stress. Please…
OL 2200: Assessment of Online Learners
OL 2200 focuses on such topics as principles of effective practice for assessing student learning, varying assessment strategies, developing rubrics, using student evaluation data, and issues concerning cheating and plagiarism.
OL 3000: Supporting Accommodations for Online Learners
OL 3000 consists of six scenarios that guide you through processes that support student accessibility to online learning.
OL 3400: Online Course Design
OL 3400 is designed to assist participants in the authoring, design, and development of an online course. This course will cover a wide variety of content that will assist you in the successful authoring of an online course.
OL 3200: Serving the Military and Veteran Student
This course leads you through several scenarios in order to acculturate you to the conditions of the military student. It includes such issues as the structure of the military, language, what to expect from students in the military, and the support available at Penn State.