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Racquel Nedden, Victoria Roth O'Neal, Chris Long, Cindy Carbajal, Melissa Joell Loble, M.A., MBA, Racquel Stephens, and Camille Funk

This series of courses provides best practices for online instruction, student engagement and virtual community building; effective uses of asynchronous and synchronous technologies, social media and other emerging technologies; and data analysis techniques and student performance measurements to individualize instruction in an online or blended environment. The courses in this Specialization may be taken in any order. Each course can be taken independently. The Specialization concludes with a final project that will give you the opportunity to integrate and apply the skills you have gained throughout the courses.

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Five courses

Foundations of Virtual Instruction

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Welcome to Foundations of Virtual Instruction! This course will help you develop advanced skills and techniques for virtual teaching in K-12. Examine pitfalls and learn how to overcome them by focusing on fundamentals that impact student learning in blended or online environments. Upon completion, you will be able to:

Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom

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Emerging Trends and Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom will help you evaluate and implement technology in the most useful way within your virtual classroom setting. We will discuss the possibilities and challenges of using technology in fully online environments, although many of the ideas can be applied to blended and traditional environments as well.

Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom

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Welcome to Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom! This course will help you apply strategies to the critical areas of K-12 virtual instruction to significantly impact virtual education. We will examine the pitfalls beginning teachers run into and learn how to overcome them by focusing on the fundamentals that have the greatest impact on student learning in a blended or online environment.

Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom

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Welcome to Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom! This course will help you effectively assess student performance virtually, including compliance issues, feedback models, online grade book functions, and data analysis. We will discuss why effective measures of performance and assessment are a crucial component of any virtual program.

Virtual Teacher Final Project

The Final Project will be a hands-on project that practitioners of virtual education can implement. Learners will draft a design plan for an online learning module utilizing materials learned from the virtual teacher series.

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