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A directory of online degrees, certificates & courses from online colleges and online universities, resources and articles regarding online learning and elearning.
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
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Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Finding E-Learning Jobs
Online teaching was the perfect part-time job for me. E-learning and online teaching replaced coaching and after school clubs as a way to supplement my income. I loved it! I was working with great teachers from around the world and learning new things everyday. I also realized I was opening a door to a new career. Eventually, after 25 years in a traditional classroom, I decided to take early retirement, and pursue my passion for online teaching and learning full time.
Now I make my living online and enjoy a freedom and flexibility that once seemed like an impossible dream. I am the program advisor for the E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Working online is everything I'd hoped for, and more. It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen. I made the change one step at a time. It took me awhile to figure out how to find work.
I've found that the key to an online career is a power triangle of essential elements:
Power Triangle
for E-Learning Success

Subject Matter Expertise
Your expertise is rooted with your life, academic, and work experiences. If you are a teacher, your expertise is established by the courses you've taught and the degrees you hold. If you are a military, corporate or medical trainer your expertise is established by your subject specialization and the variety of training positions you've held.
An Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teacher documents a new area of subject matter expertise!
Now I make my living online and enjoy a freedom and flexibility that once seemed like an impossible dream. I am the program advisor for the E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Working online is everything I'd hoped for, and more. It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen. I made the change one step at a time. It took me awhile to figure out how to find work.
I've found that the key to an online career is a power triangle of essential elements:
- Subject Matter Expertise
- 21st Century Networking
- E-learning and Teaching Experience
for E-Learning Success

Subject Matter Expertise
Your expertise is rooted with your life, academic, and work experiences. If you are a teacher, your expertise is established by the courses you've taught and the degrees you hold. If you are a military, corporate or medical trainer your expertise is established by your subject specialization and the variety of training positions you've held.
An Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teacher documents a new area of subject matter expertise!
Building Your Network
Roughly 80% of your e-learning work will come from networking face to face and online.
Decision makers want to hire people they know. When they can't find someone they know personally they reach out to an extended network of trusted advisors. Many jobs go unadvertised or are created when a person with the right skills is discovered.
Building your networks will open the door to a new future.
Roughly 80% of your e-learning work will come from networking face to face and online.
Decision makers want to hire people they know. When they can't find someone they know personally they reach out to an extended network of trusted advisors. Many jobs go unadvertised or are created when a person with the right skills is discovered.
Building your networks will open the door to a new future.
5 Ways to Build Your Professional Network
1. Start where you work right now.
E-Learning and Online Teaching Experience
The University of Wisconsin-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program provides experience as both an online student and an online teacher.
You have a developed a skill set as a classroom teacher or trainer. However, teaching or training experience does not fully prepare you for the unique challenges of e-learning and online teaching.
1. Start where you work right now.
- Let your professional circle know you are pursuing an e-learning certificate or a degree online.
- Many participants in UW-Stout's E-Learning and Online Teaching program are offered new e-learning jobs where they are currently working..
- Go to conferences and get to know others who share your professional interests.
- Attend both face to face and online conferences (Webinars).
- Have business cards printed and hand them out!
- Design and pursue your own professional development path. This Educause Planner will help you plan your future!
- Successful online students become successful online teachers.
- Get to know your classmates.
- Some of your strongest professional bonds will be with colleagues you meet in your online classes.
- Join an online network dedicated to your specific professional interests.
- Join job search oriented social networks.
- A professional presence on the Internet is important.
- Build a classroom website.
- Write a blog about an area of interest.
- Create a wiki for collaborative projects
- Show what you know with an e-portfolio.
E-Learning and Online Teaching Experience
The University of Wisconsin-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program provides experience as both an online student and an online teacher.
You have a developed a skill set as a classroom teacher or trainer. However, teaching or training experience does not fully prepare you for the unique challenges of e-learning and online teaching.
- Jumping into online teaching job without training can be a painful and frustrating experience.
- You need experience as an onlne teacher and specialized training in facilitation techniques to develop the craft of effective online instruction.
- You will experience the best practices of online learning.
- You will learn how to develop a community of learners through intense collaboration and discussion.
- You will build strong professional bonds with your colleagues.
- You will work with highly trained master teachers who are dedicated to helping you grow and learn.
- You create curriculum and assessments using Web 2.0 tools.
- You facilitate small group discussions.
- You practice the teaching skills in a supportive environment rich in timely feedback.
- Each of the five classes is a model of the best practices of teaching and learning online.
- If you've never taught an online class, you'll teach with a mentor teacher in one of our online professional development classes.
- If you are currently teaching or training online, we craft a program that offers you the course design or teaching skill feedback you most need.
- Customized internships with K-12 Virtual Schools are also possible.
UW-Stout's five-course E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate focuses on the strategies and techniques of teaching online. The courses model best practices in e-learning with interactive discussions and hands-on experiences creating and using blogs, wikis, podcasts, and Moodle in K-12 education. The courses will benefit educators and trainers interested in designing online and blended courses or using Web-based components to enhance face-to-face instruction.
Courses are offered each semester (three times each year). All courses earn three graduate credits.
Read More about Finding E-Learning Jobs!
Here are more articles about strategies for finding online work, and the kinds of preparation and paperwork you should be working on:
Courses are offered each semester (three times each year). All courses earn three graduate credits.
Read More about Finding E-Learning Jobs!
Here are more articles about strategies for finding online work, and the kinds of preparation and paperwork you should be working on:
- Where and How to Find E-Learning Jobs
- Finding E-Learning Jobs
- Finding Online Teaching Jobs: Are you a Online Teaching, Adjunct Instructor, K-12 Virtual Teacher?
- E-Portfolios for Career Development: It's not just resumes anymore!
- Make Money Teaching Online
- Successful Techniques and Proven Strategies for Finding Online Teaching Work
- Build an Online Career (Interactive Graphic)
- E-Learning Job Listings
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Great Online Professional Development for Teachers
Graduate Credit perfect for license renewal.
Check out over 34 online courses to help you grow as an educator.
EDUC 640 Poverty in Schools: Working with At-Risk Students
Study the characteristics and issues facing at-risk students because of economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Investigate traits of high-performing high-poverty schools with emphasis on strategies to reduce the achievement gap and build community partnerships.
EDUC 744 970 Strategies for Dealing with Disruptive Behavior
Evidence-based preventive strategies, positive behavioral supports, effective interventions, and classroom management strategies for addressing problem behaviors, chronic noncompliance and intermittent disruptive conduct.
Evidence-based preventive strategies, positive behavioral supports, effective interventions, and classroom management strategies for addressing problem behaviors, chronic noncompliance and intermittent disruptive conduct.
EDUC 744 911 Effective Classroom Management
Explore a variety of management techniques to help students become self-regulated learners. Improve your time management techniques including management of email, paperwork, planning, and classroom organization.
Explore a variety of management techniques to help students become self-regulated learners. Improve your time management techniques including management of email, paperwork, planning, and classroom organization.
EDUC 744 925 Bullying in Schools
Explore policies, procedures, climate and culture for providing positive, safe and respectful schools. Develop practical instructional strategies for breaking the cycle of bullying, including the escalating problem of cyberbullying using text messaging, personal websites, Facebook and social media to bully and harass peers.
Explore policies, procedures, climate and culture for providing positive, safe and respectful schools. Develop practical instructional strategies for breaking the cycle of bullying, including the escalating problem of cyberbullying using text messaging, personal websites, Facebook and social media to bully and harass peers.
EDUC 643 960 Differentiated Instruction
Explore techniques for creating a stimulating, effective classroom for all students – from English language learners to special education students to students with a variety of learning styles. Includes differentiated assessment strategies.
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