All courses are 100% online in Canvas and give participants the experience of being an online student while exploring the pedagogy of online teaching using teaching tools available in Canvas. These are not self-paced, most of the courses are asynchronous with one group/partner assignment that has synchronous components (web based).

On average, each course requires about 5 hours of work per week. (If you are a “newbie” to Canvas Part 1 will probably require more time in the beginning.) The work consists of readings, discussion posts and replies, journal reflections, individual assignments, group/partner work, presentations, and peer evaluations.

The course follows the normal Rowan Online format with each week starting on Tuesday and ending on Monday. Each week covers two (2) weeks of material. 

All who complete each course with a B or better will receive a Certificate of Completion from Rowan Online and the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.  

The courses are free for official Rowan University employees and Rowan College affiliate employees, including adjunct faculty and professional staff.  

Previous participants have various levels of online experience, from no online experience to numerous years of experience. They range from adjunct to full-time faculty to professional staff.

Everyone who has completed the course has been highly satisfied, and most applied what they were learning to both online, remote and face-to-face classes immediately. 

Non-Rowan participants are welcome. The fee for non-Rowan attendees is $250. This fee is non-refundable.  

Registration takes place through the Rowan Marketplace. The courses are free for all Rowan employees and affiliates.

The fee for non-Rowan attendees is $250.  In the Marketplace please select the item for "non-Rowan attendees" if you are from an external institution or not an employee at one of our Community College affiliates.

All participants who have successfully completed one or more of the courses that have been or are being offered are listed by college, department, or office.

Originally the Faculty Online Teaching (FOT) was an 8-week course offer from Spring 2015-Fall 2019.

As of Spring 2020, the program is now offered in two 4-week sessions: Online Teaching Basics Part 1 (OTB1) and Online Teaching Basics Part 2 (OTB2).

Summer 2022 Advanced Online Teaching Techniques (AOTT) was successfully piloted.

For questions, or to learn more about the course, please contact Carla Sbrana (sbrana@rowan.edu) in the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. 

This course will introduce online teaching to people who: 

• Want to know about online teaching and learning
• Have been asked to teach an online course
• Want to improve their online and/or classroom teaching

Participants in Online Teaching Basics - Part 1 will be able to distinguish teaching formats and online roles, recognize the value of instructor presence, apply methods for increasing instructor presence, extend student discussions, distinguish best practices, develop and apply rubrics, and demonstrate good feedback techniques. See Generic Syllabus  for more information.

(Prerequisite: Must complete Part 1, registration is monitored and you may be removed from the course if you don’t qualitfy.)

This course will assist those faculty who: 

• Need to create a course
• Update a course they have been teaching
• Want to know more about online teaching and learning

Participants in Online Teaching Basics - Part 2 will be able to create learning outcomes, recognize active online learning, apply online lecture techniques, discuss copyright issues, develop course content, and examine the issues of accessibility, assessment, and evaluation. See Generic Syllabus for more information.

This course is open to anyone who teaches online or has completed OTB1 and OTB2. AOTT is a 5-week asynchronous course that allows the participant to an examine/research an online teaching technique in more depth. The topic selected should be one that you would like to use to improve an online course by reseaching the current effective/best practices in online teaching for this area. Here are some areas to consider: accessibility, assessments, community building, content interaction, discussions, engagement, feedback, grading, group work, inclusion, lectures, motivation, time management, etc.

Participants also take part in discussions and share results with peers.

Each participant will produce a final presentation that includes the problem statement, learning objectives, annotated bibliography, abstract, solution to problem. A recording of the presentation and a pdf will be archived and shared with Rowan Faculty.