Certificate for Online Instruction Academy 24/25

The Center for Teaching & Learning at Cal Poly Humboldt continues to refine our strategic approach to supporting and expanding high-quality, meaningful online education opportunities. To maximize impact, we collaborate with Administrators, Deans, Associate Deans, and Department Chairs to strategically partner with:

• Faculty currently teaching online courses

• Faculty new to online teaching

• Departments developing new online courses

• Departments developing new online programs

Academy Description: 

The Certificate for Online Instruction Academy is a comprehensive six-week online, asynchronous professional development experience designed to engage higher education faculty through a transformative journey toward earning a Certificate for Online Instruction. This academy is pedagogically grounded in evidence-based frameworks including Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Backward Design, while integrating foundational concepts of effective online pedagogy and learning science. Participants engage in authentic, contextually-situated learning experiences that bridge theoretical understanding with practical application through structured facilitation and collaborative peer feedback. The academy's design supports faculty in reconceptualizing their online instructional practices and student learning outcomes through measurable, data-informed strategies within a supportive collegial learning community. 

Iterative Learning Transformation

Academy Outcomes:

1. Engage in an online, asynchronous course as a "student"
2. Create an effective online course through evidence-informed practices in design, teaching, and technology
3. Apply "Backward Design" to your course planning
4. Create inclusive activities/assessments/practices guided by Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
5. Integrate instructional strategies/technologies to foster an inclusive and accessible learning environment
6. Engage in an iterative process guided through your Quality Learning & Teaching (QLT) reflections that document learning, experience, changes, plans and prepare for peer review
7. Foster relationships among colleagues within and across disciplines
8. Create a public showcase that reflects your journey in the Academy
9. Share your showcase at the Cal Poly Humboldt Fall 2025 Teaching Excellence Symposium

Route to Certification in the Certificate for Online Instruction Academy

 

 

 

Making Teaching Visible: Exploring Educator Journeys in the Academy

Click Here to view the Fall 2024 Certificate Showcase

Click Here to view the Spring 2025 Showcase

 

Twenty-nine Certificate for Online Instruction Academy educators will share their experiences at the 6th Annual Teaching Excellence Symposium hosted by the Cal Poly Humboldt Center for Teaching & Learning.

Inspire, Innovate, Impact: Celebrating Educators

Quality Assurance Team

• Enoch Hale, Director, Center for Teaching & Learning
• Kimberly Vincent-Layton, QA Co-facilitator, QA Campus Coordinator
• Amy Rock, QA Faculty

Campus Partners

• Center for Teaching & Learning Team
• College Educators
• Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• College Deans, Associate Deans
• Department Chairs
• Academic Technology Advisory Council

Campus Commitment Toward Sustainability of QA Efforts

• Dedicated matching funds to augment QA programming and Recognition of Educators

• Integration of QA practices through highly integrated CTL programming

• Redesign Training for QLT Peer Reviewers

• Participation and facilitation of presentations in monthly CSU Quality Assurance Professional Learning Community
  
  

Summary of Previous QA Accomplishments

• QLT Self-Review and Peer Review Training Program
• Making teaching visible through a public showcase of educator work
• Creation of AI work and resources by and for educators
• Professional Development Hub (Canvas space) to support anytime/anywhere learning modules for faculty to engage in various technologies, pedagogies, and more

Dissemination of QA Efforts

• CTL 5th Annual Teaching Excellence Symposium Digital Showcase

• CTL Web and Canvas course to facilitate QA reviews

• CTL Instructional Hub that houses the QA Review Process

• Humanizing Online Learning and Teaching resources (campus and beyond)

Center for Teaching & Learning Instructional Hub: Anytime/Anywhere Learning

 

Professional Development Completions

1. Certificate Completions: Twenty-nine faculty over two cohorts (Fall and Spring)
2. QLT Peer Reviews: Twenty-nine faculty peer reviews by the CTL/QA team

Development of QA Campus Resources

• Implement educator recognition for a Certificate for Online Instruction Academy: Letter from the Provost/Deans

• Adopt of the new QLT version to inform programming and practices, contextualized through programming

• Add new self-paced learning modules in the CTL Instructional Hub to include technologies that support interaction and social presence

• Integrate CidiLabs DesignPLUS and related institutional templates to support educators in creating accessible, mobile-responsive content/design
  
  

Meeting the needs of all our students. 

• Center Universal/Inclusive Design and Backward Design through CTL programming and consultations

• Integrate humanizing online elements across programming

• Ally in all Courses

• Provide a selection of non-evaluative, confidential Teaching Feedback Methods for educators

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