Program Overview

Online Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, offers an online Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning. This is a fully online teaching certification for UT graduate students, or students with a terminal degree, who want to expand their skill set into online teaching. During the program, you will learn how to design, develop, and teach online courses for various educational settings, such as K–12 schools and corporate environments.

Program Overview

The graduate certificate in online teaching and learning is intended for currently admitted graduate students seeking to develop skills necessary for designing, developing, and teaching online courses in various contexts such as higher education, corporate, K-12 education, and military settings. All courses in this graduate certificate program are delivered online through Distance Education. Students currently enrolled in many of our campus graduate programs seek to gain experience designing, developing, and teaching online courses. A certificate in online teaching and learning will offer students a way to group the courses they are already taking so that they can present their skills to future employers in an easily recognized way. This certificate will also further prepare students to apply the skills and practical experiences they gain from our courses in the future development of online courses.

Admission Requirements

• Applicants must currently be admitted to a graduate program at the university or hold a terminal degree and be admitted to the certificate by submitting an online graduate application to the Office of Graduate Admissions.

Featured Courses

Examples of courses offered for the Online Teaching and Learning Graduate Certificate include:

• IT 532: Online Learning Environments
  • Theory, research and practice of designing, developing and evaluating online learning environments including distance education and blended learning approaches.
• IT 566: Understanding Online Interaction
  • Assessment and evaluation of online learning environments using data-driven techniques.
• IT 570: Instructional Systems Design
  • Application of theory and research of instructional systems design to solve instructional problems in education settings.
• IT 573: Introduction of Multimedia Instruction
  • Selected computer-based multimedia production tools and use to produce instructional materials based on specific learner characteristics and objectives.

Program Details

• Degree: Graduate Certificate
• Major: Online Teaching and Learning
• College: College of Education, Health & Human Sciences
• Format: Asynchronous
• Credit Hours: 15
• Cost Per Credit: $744 (in-state), $819 (out-of-state)
• Admission Terms: Fall, Spring, Summer

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