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Certification and Professional Development Courses
Online instructors need time, support, and guidance to teach effectively and confidently in online spaces. As a community of experts in online literacy practices, GSOLE offers a series of professional development courses in online literacy instruction, which have the potential to culminate in a Basic Online Literacy Instruction Certificate.
These month-long courses have been designed to help teachers and tutors new to online learning implement research-based practices. Courses are designed to support the instructional work of anyone teaching reading and writing, such as instructors teaching composition, professional writing, literature, creative writing, writing-intensive courses in majors across the disciplines, as well as writing center tutors and English teachers in middle and high schools. Each course is facilitated by an OLI scholar and expert and gives participants opportunities to read OLI scholarship, discuss their ideas with peers and experts in OLI, and consider how to best apply these scholarly ideas in their local contexts. You must be an active GSOLE member to participate in these courses.
There are two ways to engage with these professional development courses:
Take the courses as topics interest you for a flat $25 registration fee by registering for each module individually under our Events page.
Pay one certification fee to complete all eight modules and submit your OLI ePortfolio at a flexible pace over three years. Certification registration costs vary based on the self-reported rank and salary of each participant:
Contingent faculty and graduate students: $100
Full-time faculty/staff making under $50,000 annually: $125
Full-time faculty/staff making over $50,000 and up to $75,000 annually: $150
Full-time faculty/staff making over $75,000 annually: $200